GLORY

Railroad worker Tzanko Petrov finds a lot of money on the train tracks and decides to return it to the police. The transport ministry decides to reward him with a new wristwatch as a diversion from a corruption scandal. Here starts Petrov’s struggle to get back his old watch, and his dignity.

Dripping in darkly Slavic humor and acerbic misanthropy, the second film in the directors’ “Newspaper-clippings Trilogy” is a realist fable about modern-day Bulgaria. Glory unpicks the country’s entrenched social problems, like corruption and class divisions, with a perfectly pessimistic naturalism.