Sofia's Last Ambulance

The documentary is set in the capital of Bulgaria. The roads of Sofia are full of potholes. An ambulance moves fast along them. Three people are inside it. The doctor Krassi, the nurse Mila and the driver Plamen. Thirteen ambulance crews work in the city. The population they serve is over two million. The three of them work double shifts. They run from one emergency to the next. The camera is not turned on the patients. The director keeps their privacy intact. He looks at the faces of the crew instead. Three people racing the clock are what is seen. They break up the exhaustion with humour. Ilian Metev followed the three of them for more than two years. The seventy five minute film is a Bulgarian, Croatian and German coproduction finished in 2012.