The Peach Thief

Nov 9, 1964

1h 24m

★ 7.0

Overview

The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.

Genres

Drama

War

Romance

Production Companies

Sofiya

Boyana Film

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Cast

Lisa

Nevena Kokanova

Ivo Obrenovich

Rade Marković

The Colonel

Mikhail Mikhaylov

Colonel's Orderly

Vasil Vachev

Dyo Grevil

Naum Shopov

Gandev

Ivan Bratanov

Varenov

Georgi Georgiev

Lefterov

Ivan Manov

Poruchik Pepelanov

Theodor Youroukov

The old soldier

Nikola Dadov

Widow

Lyudmila Cheshmedzhieva

Radi

Radi Vulov

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