After the fall of Communism and the end of generous state subsidies, Bulgarian film output fell drastically. In 1999, not a single Bulgarian film was released. Those few films that were released took advantage of the new lack of censorship to harshly attack the excesses of the old regime. All three films submitted for consideration to the Oscars in this time period were anti-Communist films. "Margarit &amp; Margarita", the story of two rebellious youths who fall in love, was banned shortly before the 1989 Revolution and was released shortly after. "The Well" tells the story of how Communism was imposed with an iron fist after the end of the Second World War. "The Canary Season" is about the tragic life story of a woman as retold to her teenage son who wants to know the identity of his real father, in which she recounts her rape and forced marriage at the hands of the regime.