Love & Engineering – Rakkauden insinöörit / Ljubav i inženjering Moderni život u velikoj mjeri dizajniraju inženjeri. Vole da stvaraju i strukturiraju i ugodnije se osjećaju s brojevima i prirodnim naukama nego s osobama suprotnog spola. Atanas, kompjuterski inženjer iz Bugarske, tvrdi da je hakirao ljubav - ali da li je u stanju pomoći usamljenim i stidljivim inženjerima da pronađu pravu ljubav i sreću? U potrazi za naučnom formulom za pronalazak savršene supruge on koristi druge inženjere kao pokusne kuniće, objašnjava im svoje ideje i šalje ih u stvarni svijet kako bi te ideje testirali u praksi. Bežičnim putem upravlja njima tokom njihovih dogovorenih sastanaka s potencijalnim kandidatkinjama: lijepim mladim ženama. Da li su pravila privlačnosti, seksualnosti i ljubavi naučne prirode i, ako jesu, da li ih zaista želimo znati? Tonislav Hristov je bugarski filmski autor koji od 2001. godine živi u Finskoj. Svoj prvi dokumentarni film FAMILY FORTUNE za YLE i Bugarsku državnu televiziju režirao je 2008. godine. Njegov prvi dugometražni dokumentarni film RULES OF SINGLE LIFE je premijerno prikazan u kinima u Finskoj 2011, a u bugarskim kinima 2012. godine. Film je proglašen najboljim dokumentarnim filmom na Međunarodnom filmskom festivalu u Sofiji, a prikazan je i na brojnim drugim festivalima. E Our modern life is largely designed by engineers. They like to invent and structure things and they are more at ease with figures and natural science than in relations with the opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian computer engineer claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely and shy engineers find real love and real happiness? As he is trying to develop a scientific formula for the finding of a perfect wife, he uses other engineers as his guinea pigs; lectures them on his ideas and sends them out to test them in the real world. He guides with them through a wireless connection during their dates with potential candidates: beautiful young women. Are the rules of attraction, sex and love scientific and if they are, do we really want to know them?
Tonislav Hristov is a Bulgarian filmmaker, who has been living in Finland since 2001. In 2008, he directed his first documentary film FAMILY FORTUNE for YLE and Bulgarian National Television. His first feature length documentary RULES OF SINGLE LIFE premiered in Finnish cinemas in 2011 and in Bulgarian cinemas in 2012. The film won the Best Documentary award at the Sofia International Film Festival and was shown at many others.
REGIONALNA PREMIJERA / REGIONAL PREMIERE Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, 2014, Colour, 85 min., English, Finnish Režija / Director: Tonislav Hristov Scenarij / Screenplay: Tonislav Hristov & Kaarle Aho Direktor fotografije / Director of Photography: Peter Flinckenberg Montaža / Editor: Nikolai Hartmann Muzika / Music: Petar Dundakov Zvuk / Sound: Nani Schumann Producent / Producer: Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg, Thomas Tielsch, Martichka Bozhilova Produkcija / Production: Making Movies, Filmtank, AGITPROP Uloge / Cast: Atanas Boev, Todor Vlaev, Tuomas Nieminen, Markus Virtanen,Andon Nikolov Filmografija / Filmography 2014 - LOVE & ENGINEERING 2013 - SOUL FOOD STORIES 2011 - RULES OF SINGLE LIFE 2008 - FAMILY FORTUNE 2005 - HERCULES
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