A Day of Filming

Apr 9, 1969

0h 54m

★ 8.5

Overview

Shooting of a picture: to those, familiar with only from the screen, it is a entertainment. So, in a quiet Sofia street, a shooting crew starts their work. Bypassing begin to throng, curious people are looking out of the windows of the surrounding buildings. A scene is being shot of s short dialogue between the protagonists. It goes wrong all the time and is never complete. The mess gets beyond the comical, the true relations between the members of grew show and they do not look that excellent. At long last, the final scene is shot and the street is quiet again.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

BNT

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Cast

Aktyor

Apostol Karamitev

Aktrisata

Ginka Stancheva

Operatorat

Nikola Rudarov

Rezhisyorat

Evstati Stratev

Asistent-rezhisyorat

Vasil Tsonev

Stzenaristat

Yanko Yankov

Stariyat aktyor

Hristo Dinev

Momicheto

Violeta Gindeva

Momcheto

Nikolai Ouzounov

Staretzat statist

Marin Totev

Zhurnalistkata

Lidia Vulkova

Zvukooperatorat

Alexander Blagoev

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