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3	''All For Love'' (original title: ''Да обичаш на инат'', literally "To love spitefully") is a 1986 Bulgarian film adapted from the [[AdaptationTitleChange almost eponymous]] 1983 novel ''Да се любим на инат''.
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5	CommieLand Bulgaria, TheEighties. Delivery man Radomir "Rado" Peshev is doing as well as he can in a society where wages are low, everyone steals and if you want to make a living, you have to be in on it and keep your head down and your mouth shut. It's a delicate balance which he maintains with no real trouble. That is, until his son Plamen takes his father's lessons too far and learns to stand up for what is right and not keep his mouth shut, no matter what. The conflict between the integrity Radomir is teaching his son and his own suppression of it in order to survive in a dog-eat-dog world threaten to unravel his entire life.
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7	!! Tropes:
8	* AdaptationTitleChange: The novel's title comes from a verse in a song quoted by the protagonist about a woman stubbornly loving a [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor poor man instead of a wealthy diplomat her parents want to marry her off to]]. The song is somewhat archaic and the meaning of the word used had shifted from "love each other" to "making love", necessitating the change.
9	* ApatheticCitizen: Rado exemplifies this. He learned early on that [[TallPoppySyndrome keeping your head down gives you security]] while sticking up will just land you in trouble.
10	* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Downplayed. Rado is by no means evil, but he does prefer to not stand up for anything because his silent compliance has been rewarded in the past. He does however try to teach his son to stand up for himself. When Plamen stands up nit just for himself but for something he believes in (namely that the music teacher sings off-key and that he won't apologize for pointing that out), Rado at first tries to force him to apologize, then has a realization and defends his son even as he accepts that he must do it.
11	* GoingPostal: [[spoiler: When out of guilt, Rado backs out of the scam at his workplace in which everyone participates, their paranoia that he'll rat them out causes them to beat him up. The next day he shows up in his truck, starts rampaging around the place and then crashes the truck into the weighing booth where it all began.]]
12	* MaliciousMisnaming: Radomir is an archaic name, now mostly known as the name of a small provincial town. Rado's coworkers annoy him by calling him with other weird-sounding names of backwater towns, like Kaspichan or Polski Trambesh.

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