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A Day of Filming (1969)

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.

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Top billed cast

Apostol KaramitevAktyor
Ginka StanchevaAktrisata
Nikola RudarovOperatorat
Evstati StratevRezhisyorat
Vasil TsonevAsistent-rezhisyorat
Yanko YankovStzenaristat
Hristo DinevStariyat aktyor
Violeta GindevaMomicheto
Nikolai OuzounovMomcheto
Marin TotevStaretzat statist

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