On the Small Island

Year: 1958

Runtime: 94 mins

Language: Bulgarian

Director: Rangel Vulchanov

Drama

Set in the 1920s, several dozen political prisoners are exiled to a remote Black Sea island where they await sentencing. Among them is the seasoned sea‑wolf and adventurer Kostadin, nicknamed “Costa Rica,” who conspires with a carpenter named Zheko, an idealistic student and a doctor to stage an escape.

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