He blew up Stalin's statue—then Stalin died two days later. Coincidence? The regime didn't think so.
A film about the dramatic and extraordinary fate of the lonely man who confronted the meat grinder of the communist regime. Georgy Konstantinov, 19 years old, blew up Stalin's monument in Sofia and death passed him by only because the dictator died two days later. He miraculously survived 10 years in prison and psychiatric wards and managed to escape to France. His State Security file numbers more than 40,000 pages. Even today, he does not cease to expose the crimes of the regime with the strength of truth and of his character.
Direction
Elezov lets Georgy's silence speak louder than any archive.
Production
40,000 pages of secret police files brought to visceral life.
Director
Rossen Elezov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bulgaria's secret police kept more files per capita than East Germany's Stasi—Georgy's is among the largest single-person dossiers ever found.
The 1956 Stalin monument in Sofia was secretly detonated at night; the regime never admitted it was sabotage until 1989.
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