{"id":940,"date":"2026-01-12T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/the-cruel-way-wins-the-grand-prize-golden-rhyton\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:46:27","slug":"the-cruel-way-wins-the-grand-prize-golden-rhyton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/the-cruel-way-wins-the-grand-prize-golden-rhyton\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Cruel Way\u201d Wins the Grand Prize \u201cGolden Rhyton\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"557\">And the Grand Prize \u201cGolden Rhyton\u201d for Best Documentary Film goes to \u201cThe Cruel Way\u201d! This time, most of the team were at the ceremony to receive the award, along with two more distinctions (the Critics\u2019 Prize and the Bulgarian National Film Archive Prize) at the 29th edition of the \u201cGolden Rhyton\u201d Documentary and Animation Film Festival. In the photo, you can see the screenwriters Elena Ermova, Stanislav Grozdanov, and Diliyan Pavlov, alongside director Deyan Bararev and producer Ivan Spassov.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"559\" data-end=\"971\">We are deeply grateful to the jury, the Bulgarian National Film Archive, the critics, and the Bulgarian National Film Center for their support and for organizing this wonderful festival. We also thank our co-producers at Bulgarian National Television (BNT), the National Culture Fund, and BNR \u2013 Bulgarian National Radio, as well as Prostor cloud services, for their support and assistance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"1051\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">And our thanks as well to BTA (Bulgarian News Agency) for the wonderful award.<br \/>\n\u201cFor its in-depth and at the same time emotionally powerful search for the truth about a landmark event from the recent past.\u201d This is the jury\u2019s motives citation from the 29th Festival of Bulgarian Documentary and Animation Cinema \u201cGolden Rhyton\u201d for awarding the Grand Prize to \u201cThe Cruel Way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"498\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Bulgarian National Film Archive Prize was awarded to the film\u2019s director, Deyan Bararev: \u201cFor the mastery and passion with which he has preserved the enduring values of the national spirit and character.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the Grand Prize \u201cGolden Rhyton\u201d for Best Documentary Film goes to \u201cThe Cruel Way\u201d! This time, most of the team were at the ceremony to receive the award, along with two more distinctions (the Critics\u2019 Prize and the Bulgarian National Film Archive Prize) at the 29th edition of the \u201cGolden Rhyton\u201d Documentary and Animation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecruelwaymovie.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}