HBO Max Boards Nikolay Stefanov’s Debut Feature Doc ‘No Place for You in Our Town’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmiliano Granada HBO Max has boarded Nikolay Stefanov’s debut feature doc “No Place for You in Our Town” which it is co-producing with Bulgaria’s Smarty Pants Shooter, headed by writer-producer Ralitsa Golemanova.Premiering at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX, “No Place for You in Our Town” marks HBO Max’s first original from Bulgaria.
The film will drop on HBO Max in fall 2022.It revolves around a group of soccer hooligans in Pernik, a mining town in Bulgaria whose industry has slowly decayed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The descendants of generations of men working underground must face the stark reality that the promised future for a working class never came to be.The soccer fanatics ferociously embrace their third-division football team as a source of identity, a symbol providing a sense of brotherhood.
Fascist iconography swarms their reunions, and often racist slurs feature in their abrasive chants. Yet Stefanov’s patient eye looks beyond that veneer of violent masculinity and finds through Tsetso, a skinhead hooligan with a Swastika on his chest and a single father, a wide range of nuance that give surprising depth to their human experience.
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