Bulgarian cinema is enjoying a moment this year, starting with Valeska Grisebach’s extraordinary crime drama The Dreamed Adventure, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes back in May. The similarly incisive Black Money for White Nights, by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, is very much cut from the same cloth, set in the same post-Soviet black-market economy where everyone is on the take. Some people, however, take more than others, with cops and crooks snagging the lion’s share while ordinary people divvy up the scraps.
Marina (Tanya Shahova) and her husband Gosha (Ivan Savov) are very much in the latter
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