History Series / Patriarchy

[[caption-width-right:250:''[[Main/ThemeTune Every night, I keep having the same dream...]]'']]

''Patriarchy'' (Bulgarian: ''Патриархат [Patriar'khat]'') is a 2005 mini-series about the coming of [[CommieLand communism]] into the [[{{Ruritania}} fictional village of Yugla]] around World War II. The fates of characters from all social strata are turned round or destroyed as the patriarchal spirit is replaced by that of the new age. The story is told through the eyes of Rangel "Ran" Hinov, a film director who was born in the village during these events and is now returning to make a feature film about them.

* EndOfAnEra: The whole premise of the series. The communist insurgency and coup and the following nationaliation, accompanied by communist becoming dictators and murdering any opposition results in breaking the village's spirit and traditions and the spread of fear and alienation.

* TrashTheSet: An InUniverse example. [[spoiler: The water mill was blown up in 1936 by Bondov and co., but when Ran returns, he has it restored for the movie, only to pull off this trope. Old Mr. Kraev, who used to be a technician at the mill, thinks it's being repaired for real after all these years and is saddened to see it burn down for a second time.]]

--> '''Ran''': ''(when the whole village gathers for a festival and a circle dance for the last time before the war)'' Afterwards, there would be many manifestations, banquets and parties. But in Yugla, there was never to be another celebration.

* TrashTheSet: A meta example. [[spoiler: The water mill was blown up in 1936 by Bondov and co., but when Ran returns, he has it restored for the movie, only to pull off this trope. Old Mr. Kraev, who used to be a technician at the mill, thinks it's being repaired for real after all these years and is saddened to see it burn down for a second time.]]

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The usual romanticized portrayal of this trope is deconstructed. The communists who seize power are all either hardline dictators, power-hungry, murderous opportunists, or hollow shells who murder their kin for vengeance. Those with a stronger moral compass get killed for objecting to the new regime's brutаlity.

''Patriarchy'' (Bulgarian: ''Патриархат [Patriar'khat]'') is a 2005 mini-series about the coming of [[CommieLand communism]] into the [[{{Ruritania}} fictional village of Yugla]] around World War II. The fates of characters from all social strata are turned round or destroyed as the patriarchal spirit is replaced by that of the new age. The story is told through the eyes of a film director who was born in the village during these events and is now returning to make a feature film about them.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The usual romanticized portrayal of this trope is deconstructed. The communists who seize power are all either hardline dictators, power-hungry, murderous opportunists, or hollow shells who murder their kin for vengeance. Those with a stronger moral compass get killed for objecting to the new regime's brutlity.

* FullCircleRevolution: The poorest of the communists steals and murders his way to the top, installing himself as an EvilOverlord possessing more reaches than the wealthy "bourgeoisie" he hated ever did.

''Patriarchy'' (Bulgarian: '' [Patriar'khat]'') is a 2005 mini-series about the coming of [[CommieLand communism]] into the [[{{Ruritania}} fictional village of Yugla]] around World War II. The fates of characters from all social strata are turned round or destroyed as the patriarchal spirit is replaced by that of the new age. The story is told through the eyes of a film director who was born in the village during these events and is now returning to make a feature film about them.