Ursus is a story of three outcasts—Georgian unemployed film director, Ukrainian ex-stuntman and a Canadian female fighter for the wild animals' rights—making their desperate journey from Tbilisi, the capital of ex-Soviet Georgia plunged into a civil war, to Berlin at the beginning of 1992. Each of the three characters pursues their own goal without even knowing how much their fates are intertwined.
Lilly steals the keys of her new teacher and in an act of revenge trashes his home. She is surprised by his blind and ill-tempered mother and Lilly lies that she is in fact his fiancée. This makes the mother very happy and eventually, Lilly finds herself bound to visit her regularly.
A retired opera female singer terrorizes people and animals because of her love for a 20-year old boy (in the days of the Total Solar Eclipse 1999).
In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized the power. The new rulers do justice according to their personal interests. This is the beginning of the era of Communism in Bulgaria - spiritual poverty, expropriation, destroying of the intelligentsia. In this chaos the main character, an actress fallen on hard times, wants to preserve her social status with every available means. She claims to be a Communist activist and, in order to gain access to the theater even shows a photo with the Bulgarian communist revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov's dog However, in order to survive, she has to resort to betrayal.
Little Tony does not have a father, but her mother is just an obstacle. The child often stays outside the locked door while the mother has fun with another guest. Tony wanders in the streets or walks to Pipe doll artist's studio. Here the girl is immersed in a fairy-tale world, very different from the one around her. But Fipo has his own life and problems. Tony is not mad at her mother, loves her and wants to live with her. But for neighboring children, Tony is a bad example. Their parents are doing their best to put her in a boarding school without being interested in her opinion. Is this better for the little girl?
A girl walks out as if of Pandora's Box to foretell the drama humankind is to face, paying for all sins, we have been piling up through the ages. A number of directors being parodied take turns to show their take on this drama and relate it to modern life. Getting tangled up in the opposition between the eternal and transient, the base and the sublime, it all turns into a cocktail of an absurd and profound poignancy.
Ilka Zafirova was born on April 8, 1941 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated in "acting" in National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaria in the class of Professor Moise Beniesh in 1966 and the same year she joined the Drama Theatre in Veliko Tarnovo . In1968-1969, she was in the troupe of Plovdiv Drama Theater. Twice, in 1970-1971 and in 1974-1975, she played in Pazardzhik Drama Theater. After 1977 she settled in Theatre "Sofia" until 1990, when she has passed to the troupe of the Little City Theatre "Off the Channel" . She played on stage at Theatre 199 in the performances: "An Hour Before Midnight" by Vlastimir Shoubra, director Hristo Krachmarov; "Rain" by Boris Aprilov, director Ivan Nitchev; "Crystal" by Lada Galina, director Georgi Avramov; "Shirley Valentine" by Willy Russell director Todor Kolev; "Master Class" by Terrence McNally, director Ilka Zafirova and friends; Charlotte in "Autumn Sonata" by Ingmar Bergman, director Mladen Kiselov; Nell in "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, directed Lili Abadzhieva; "Mrs Klein" by Nicholas Wright, director Stilian Petrov /for this role she won the Theater Award "Asker", 2015 for leading actress /. In parallel, she has many roles in the cinema, a total of 22 films, including " Wolf " and " Willful Bird Love ", directed by Rangel Valchanov; " White Room ", directed by Metodi Andonov , " Ladies Choice ", " Vampires, ghouls " and " White magic ", directed by Ivan Andonov and " Boarding for Dogs ", directed by Stephen Komandarev . She has dubbed Mrs. Finstar in synchronous dubbing of the animated series " Big Break ." Shee has one daughter and one granddaughter.
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