Movie award for “Sevt the Immortal: the secrets of a Thracian tzar (king)”
The Bulgarian documentary film “Sevt the Immortal: the secrets of a Thracian tzar (king)” (2009) by the producer Zlatina Ruseva won the prestigious award of the jury at the festival “Arts&film – 2010” in Czeck Republic. The film producers shall receive the award on the official ceremony on June 26th t.y.
“Arts&film” is a specialized festival devoted to European art and is of competitive character. In this year’s sixth in a row edition, there are 700 films from 36 countries that shall compete. The Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Prague had included three Bulgarian documentary films and one multimedia presentation in the Program of the International festival “Arts&film”.
The festival shall take place from June 24th to June 26th t.y. in the historical town Telč, which is on the UNESCO List and is situated in South Czeck Republic.
The State Cultural Institute supported the project for the creation of this film as part of the accomplishment of its program concerning the popularization of the image of the Republic of Bulgaria.
During 2004 the archeologist Georgi Kitov, conducting excavations in the Valley of the Kings, opened an unplundered fane. The affluence of the objects prompts the idea that this had been a king’s funeral and gradually scientists identify it as the funeral of Sevt ІІІ. The team came across another unexpected discovery – a bronze head, a a masterpiece from ancient times which had been buried in front of the entrance of the fane. Starting from these finds and the series of questions and speculations which thus ensue, the film is gradually revealing the psychological portrait of a Thracian king and his role in complicated times.
The script writer and producer Zlatina Ruseva together with her crew are offering a film story about the Thracian king Sevt ІІІ, building up his psychological project and his role in a complicated era – the globalization of the Ancient world. The message, searched by the author is to disclose one of the big ideas, left over for us by the Thracian culture – their faith in immortality which has determined their mode of living, their rituals and arts. For the Thracians the soul is a Devine spark, possessed by everyone and which is part of the universal cosmic energy. They have had the deep enlightenment about life as part of the cosmic rhythm and have manifested this in music. It is not a coincidence that music has overwhelmed the perception of the Ancient world.
The film investigations is leading us to unique technologies, which have been incorporated in the discovered objects, to unknown Thracian inscriptions and other exceptional finds.
Based on artefacts, the film is revealing the role of the Thracians in the ancient world, as well as the impact that they have laid on Greek culture and on philosophers line Socrates and Plato.