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Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch

Oct 19, 2002

1h 38m

★ 5.7

Overview

High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Boyana Film

BNT

Digitrop

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Cast

Starata Katerina

Svetlana Yancheva

Mladata Katerina

Bilyana Kazakova

Malkata Katerina

Mariya Mazneva

Tzena

Snezhina Petrova

Dedo Vande

Rousy Chanev

Kiril Vandev

Atanass Atanassov

Rezhisyorat

Galin Stoev

Bozhin

Dossio Dossev

Mladiyat Bozhin

Nikolay Mutafchiev

Leshko

Stoyan Sardanov

Operatorat

Rubens Muratovski

Popadamchev

Stefan Valdobrev

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