All For Love (original title: Да обичаш на инат, literally "To love spitefully") is a 1986 Bulgarian film adapted from the almost eponymous 1983 novel Да се любим на инат.
Commie Land Bulgaria, The '80s. 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.
Tropes:
- Adaptation Title Change: The novel's title comes from a verse in a song quoted by the protagonist about a woman stubbornly loving a 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.
- Apathetic Citizen: Rado exemplifies this. He learned early on that keeping your head down gives you security while sticking up will just land you in trouble.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: 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.
- Going Postal: 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.
- Malicious Misnaming: 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.
- Stealing from the Till: The scheme at Grocery hub 107 all truckers are in on. Basically, they first measure the weight of their "empty" truck at the weighing booth but they've put a spare tire or something else weighing 20-30 kg in the trailer. Then they load up their trucks with an extra 20-30 kg of veggies when they set out to distribute them to grocery shops. They each pay a small "fee" to the booth operator and she lets them do it without accounting for the extra weight. The excess veggies are then sold by the grocer with whom the trucker divides the profits. Between the booth operator, the truckers and the grocer, an unspoken, omertà-like agreement has been settled - they all benefit from it and if one backs out or worse, rats it out, they all go down. When Rado backs put because his son calls him out, the others get paranoid that it'll ruin everything and turn on him.
