The Bible says, ‘In the beginning was the Word…’ Writer Vladimir Zarev states that the word is ‘the most sublime possession and mystery, not only of the human reason but also of God himself’. This film is dedicated to the author Vladimir Zarev, better known under the epithet, ‘the Bulgarian Balzac’, in the German-language literary and reading world. It is a tale about his oeuvre and his creative process as a form of spirituality; about the themes that excite him: a work on Being, Destruction, Law. A film about Faith…

VLADIMIR BORISOV was born in Sofia in 1987. He graduated in Film and TV Direction from the Neofit Rilski Southwest University; he has a PhD in Film Studies and Cinema Arts. During his professional career, he has been involved in numerous productions, including the ‘Lords of the Air’ TV show; the reality series ‘True Stories’ and ‘Nova Station’; the documentary films ‘Beyond the Barrier’, ‘A Woman and a Man’, ‘Theodora’; and TV feature series. ‘Chiselling Worlds’ is his first full-length documentary film.