Tobacco

Movie
Audience Score
37
Tobacco
NR 2 hr 30 minWar, Drama
Boris Morev dreams of money and power hell do everything to reach the top including leaving his beloved Irina to marry the daughter of the local tobacco factory owner With the death of his fatherinlaw and the illness of his wife Morev becomes the new owner of Nicotiana and rules with an iron fist resulting in massive labour strikes and murder He ropes Irina back into his life first as a mistress and later as his second wife but his ambitions still come first as he plans on emerging as the biggest tobacco seller once the war is over Irinas love for Boris is fading and she finds a lover in one of the Germans Boris is trying to strike a deal with Set against the backdrop of World War II and communist partisans fighting against the Naziallied Bulgarian monarchy the film is a screen adaptation of the Bulgarian classic novel Tobacco released in 1954