Georgi and the Butterflies

Georgi and the Butterflies

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 25, 2004

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

72%

Original Title

Георги и пеперудите

Production Companies

Agitprop

Director

Andrey Paounov

Description

Georgi and the Butterflies tells the story of a man and his dream. This man is Dr Georgi Lulchev, a psychiatrist, neurologist, Chinese medicine man, administrator, amateur chef, entrepreneur and Director of the Home for Psychologically Disabled Men. His dream is to organise a farm in the yard of the home, where the patients can raise snails, ostriches and pheasants, produce silk fibres and soybean food. This is a story full of optimism, snails, ostriches, silk, charity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, soybean food, schizophrenics, oligophrenics, psychopaths, Korean investors, Western hunters, misery, acupuncture and compassion. Compassion, business, butterflies.