Invisible - a documentary about heroin addiction

Trailer for "Invisible" a documentary by Konstantin Bojanov.

After the crumbling of the Soviet empire, heroin flooded the streets of many cities behind the former Iron Curtain. Heroin offered an alternative lifestyle largely unknown until then. In the late 1990s heroin addiction in Eastern Europe had reached epidemic proportions.

Invisible takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria and follows a group of six young people on a three year journey through the highs and lows, dreams and tribulations of living with heroin addiction. The story bypasses the social problems and dynamics associated with addiction and focuses on the existential views and philosophies of the participants. The film provides a platform for their ideas and concepts of the world surrounding them. The participants represent a group of "social outcasts", who remain largely invisible in society. They are members of a generation eager to discover and explore the new "commodities".

Invisible is unprecedented in the intimacy with which it portrays its subjects. The film presents perspectives influenced by euphoria as well as the sobering reality that follows, without passing judgments, trivializing, denigrating, or exploiting the subjects.

DVD available on Netflix and Amazone.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• junky
• youth
• addiction
• heroin
• drugs
• documentary
• Eastern
• Europe
• subculture
• Bulgaria
• Sofia

[matthewgroen]

btw, people heard about Krokodil aswel? if not please do some research

[matthewgroen]

@VvEinarvV Legalization means that the government has control over it. God knows how many new addicts arise just for the Elite to make more money. Decriminalization is a better answer.

[VvEinarvV]

@ChicagoNeilcon Dude shut the fuck up. Are you paying for heroin? No. If all this shit were legal there would be no gangs, no drug related crimes and use would go down. Research before you argue faggot. And God can fuck off. There is no god faggot. Just like there are no unicorns.

[ChicagoNeilcon]

@nguyenimproved Every week-end the Cops should be allowed to hand-cuff heroin dealers (or anyone who sells dope to minors) to a whipping post in public. Then give a 10 foot bull-whip to the junkies family members . . wearing a black hood so they aren't ID'd. Let them the family give about 20 lashes on skin. That aughtta take the starch out of 'em. If Singapore can give caning for littering, why not allow dole this out to pushers? Problem solved. Hope you'll pay for the lives you've taken.

[ChicagoNeilcon]

@VvEinarvV Actually, you're wrong. It's not THEIR problem, it's SOCIETY'S problem. Why should hard working taxpayers foot the bill to take care of people that want to (as Dr. Leary said "Tune in, turn on and drop out" ? The crime, the gangs, the drive-bys, the killing and the huge expense of medical ER and nursing home care for burn outs is keeping us from advancing as a society. Get help! Find yourself . . find God ! If I had the power, I would napalm Afganistans poppy fields tomorrow.

[omiblingbling]

@mylipsofmorphine they do choose this life, cuz they got nothing else to do...instead of trying hard to get a job, no theyre gonna get high.. fuck that no respect....i came to USA when I was 18, on my own no parents and lots of stress....i pushed hard(alone), im 32 now, married, expecting my son very soon...and yes I smoke weed..so dont tell me from all the positive things, u wanna kill yourself with heroin...now dats some bullshit

[omiblingbling]

u gotta be the stupidest motha fucka to try heroin.....just killurself and get over it...

PROPS TO ALL WEED SMOKERS!!!

[MegaGangaking]

HEROIN IS THE DEVILS FAVORITE CANDY. I HATE SATAN.

[MrWeaselwork]

addiction is a spirtual emotional and physical disease you idiots. and very strongly genetic. no one would choose to live like that! addiction is hell. duh!

[zoetropez76]

Morality? Fuck morality. Dope is real. There are reasons people take it. One of them being having to deal with stupid people all day every day.