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Visualizations of “Hooligans”. A Bulgarian Film of the 1960s version of socialism, which in a totalitarian regime was a political statement. Valchitsata is an evidence of a lyrical humanism, but not an idyllic one. The authors of the film were attempting to enrich the society by bringing out into the open and elevating such concepts as freedom, human rights, respect, and hope. The critics of the film in the 1960s give reason to assume that most of the reviewers supported the allegorical style of the work. Having in mind films banned by the authorities because of being classified as “dangerous”, one possible way not to evoke doubts in the censorious authorities was to emphasize the (political) “benefits” of the movie for the regime. Therefore cliché phrases were used: “Valchitsata is actually an anticult [of personality] film; actively fighting for communist morality”. At the same time the reviewer stresses the crucial critical moments in the film, which the readers/viewers should analyse and look at in depth; and pointed out that “the idyll of the literary script is destroyed” (Andreykov 1965: 42). The film Valchitsata, which was initially based on a true story shows the complex interplay between art and the reference social reality, between the reference real and the depicted artistic Other. The film directs attention to the reality of an LES and offers the viewer possibility to draw a differentiated picture of the hooligans, their own Other children in 1960s Bulgaria. The film intensifies also the picture of socialist cinema: a picture in which there was censorship, and self-censorship, but also auteur cinema, which, according to the words of film director Valchanov, makes people “remain thoughtful”.*! Sources Oliver H. 1963 = Oausep X. 1963. JIumepamypen cyenaputi (‘Literary Script). TsDA E 404, op. 4, ae. 289. TsDA. Llenrpaacn appoxasen apxus (‘Central State Archive’). Valchanov R. n.d. = Brauanog P. 6.A. Pexcuceopcku cuenapuü (Film Director Script). TsDA E. 404, op. 4, ae. 289a. TsDA. Llenrpaacu app2kasen apxu (‘Central State Archive’). TsDA F. 404, op. 4, ac. 290, Bonuuyama-Oocue (‘Valchitsata— Dossier’). TsDA. Llenrpaacn ABpxascH apxus ("Central State Archive’). TsDA E 1283, op. 1, a.e. 3. Ifenmpanna komucua sa 6op6a c npomusooÖujecmeenume npoasu Ha ManonemHu u nensnnonemnu. 1961-1973 (‘Central Commission for Combating the Antisocial Acts of Minors. 1961-1973’). TsDA. Llexrpaacx ABpxasex apxu (“Central State Archive’). DA Pernik, E 705, op. 1, ae. 1. TBY, Bpana cmena. IIpomoxoana kuuea (‘LES, Vranya Stena. Protocols’). DA Pernik. Appxasex apxus Ilepaux (Pernik State Archive’). DA Pernik, FE 705, op. 1, ae. 2. TBY, Bpana cmena. ITnanoee, Ookaaûu, unfopmauuu (LES, Vranya Stena. Plans, Reports, Informations”). DA Pernik. Aspxasen apxus IIepnux (‘Pernik State Archive’). DA Pernik, E 1017, op. 1, ae. 1-20. Apxue M. Tpenuapoe (Archiv M. Grancharov). DA Pernik. Appxxasen apxus [leprux (‘Pernik State Archive’). 1 Valchanov, TsDA F. 404, op. 4, ae. 290: 50. 455
