Khan Asparukh - Part I - Phanagoria

The film is the first part of a trilogy about the founding of the Bulgarian state. The events take place in the middle of the seventh century. Volga Bulgaria is under attack from the Khazars. Khan Kubrat leaves his sons a testament. The sons set out to find a new home for their tribes. The youngest of them is Asparukh. He spends twenty years on the road. What he is looking for is a lasting land for his people. In the end he reaches the mouth of the Danube. The narrator is a captured Byzantine chronicler. His name is Belisarius and he witnesses Asparukh’s journeys. The winning of the land south of the Danube is told through him. The production is built on an epic scale. Stoyko Peev and Antony Genov appear in the ninety five minute film, a Bulgarian production Ludmil Staikov finished in 1981.