Triumph

Triumph (2024)

Триумф

A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarked on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.

Date of release
2024-09-08
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Mystery
Director
Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

Casting

Interesting facts

Triumph is a 2024 Bulgarian-Greek black comedy film directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. The third and final installment of a trilogy of films by the directors, after The Lesson (2014) and Glory (2016), it stars Maria Bakalova, Julian Kostov, Julian Vergov, and Margita Gosheva.

Production

The film received first development support from the Bulgarian National Film Center in 2018. In 2019, Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov announced that Triumph was still in development, with filming expected to begin in late 2020 or 2021. In August 2022, Deadline Hollywood reported that Maria Bakalova and Julian Kostov would co-produce the film and lead the cast.

It is the third and last of Grozeva and Valchanov's "newspaper clippings" trilogy of films based on articles published in the local press, after The Lesson (2014) and Glory (2016).

The film is a co-production between Five Oceans, Abraxas Film, and the Greek production company Graal Films, and was funded by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Greek Film Centre, Eurimages, MEDIA, the Bulgarian National Television, and ERT. Its budget was €545,000, and filming took place in Bulgaria in 2022 and 2023.

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