Abstract
This chapter looks at post-communist nostalgia tropes in the film The World Is Big, and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner. What follows is an exploration of its critical potential towards the present, in the Bulgarian context, by combining a textual film analysis with a thematic analysis of audience focus groups. An extract from The World Is Big, and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner was used as a starting point in the focus groups in order to evaluate the potential of the film to initiate a discussion and negotiation of nostalgic leanings. The chapter also looks at new Bulgarian cinema as one of the possible platforms that could encourage dialogue and debate about the conflicting images of the past. In one of the groups, when discussing the way that the transition was conveyed in Bulgaria in the 1990s, one participant notes that the social fragmentation was in the interests of the ruling party.
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