WHO'S AFRAID OF JULIA KRISTEVA? TRAILER

WHO’S AFRAID OF JULIA KRISTEVA?

an iskra angelova film

coproduction of BNT, NDK and Wonderland Productions

directors:
iskra angelova
milena getova

cinematography:
nedyalko danov – paris
nikolai iliev – sofia
iskra angelova – subjective camera

screenplay:
iskra angelova

music:
anton piperov


1966. Bulgaria is still behind the Iron Curtain. Young and smart student Julia Kristeva goes to Paris on a scholarship from the French government. There she encounters the cream of French intelligentsia, where she meets the leader of the Tel Quel movement – Philippe Sollers. The two instantly fall in love and marry. France welcomes with open arms the young Bulgarian's ideas, that are influenced by Russian structuralists and formalists. She begins to work with Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan.
Iskra Angelova’s film Who's Afraid of Julia Kristeva? tells the story of one of the most successful, world-famous Bulgarians – a psychoanalyst, linguist, semiotician and philosopher, Julia Kristeva is a scientist, writer and feminist, but most of all – her interesting, unusual and beautiful mind continues to amaze today.