[1] The film is the third part of director Andrey Paounov's unofficial trilogy on the "absurdity of the Bulgarian transition period".
However, the boy held the throne for only three years due to the establishment of a socialist regime in the country.
A few years after the fall of the socialist regime in 1989, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha returned to Bulgaria for the first time since 1946.
The film presents not only the life of the former Tsar, but also intertwines within the story vignettes of various Bulgarians, who were supporting him, sending him gifts, or merely tattooing his face on their body.
The film received praise for its editing and use of archives[1][3] with Variety's Robert Koehler writing that "Pic’s terrific use of archival footage includes an exiled Simeon interviewed in the early ’60s, disputing his playboy rep." and "Editing is aces.