Here is another that caught my eye thanks to the bike on the cover. The World is Big is a 2008 film out of Bulgaria. Following a car crash, in which his mother and father are killed, a young man (Sashko) embarks, in the company of his grandfather, on what might be called a journey of recovery. Bai, the grandfather, grown weary of the way doctors are treating Sashko's amnesia, convinces his grandson to leave the hospital, and together they travel by tandem from Germany back to Bulgaria in an attempt to reawaken memories of the past. There is more story intertwined throughout - political persecution, attempts to start over in a new country, friendships, and tying everything together, the game of backgammon. Pretty darn good with some fun cycling scenes. English subtitles didn't subtract from it at all. Now why does the lead actor (grandfather) remind me so much of Walter Matthau?
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