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Top billed cast

Paraskeva DjukelovaKalina
Deyan DonkovInspector Metodi Stoev
Stefan ValdobrevEnriko
Iossif SurchadzhievAnarchist
Nikolai UrumovNachalnikat na lagera
Tzvetana ManevaThe Mother
Yordan BikovChovechniyat agent
Valeri YordanovStarshina v lagera
Mario KrastevKofti
Vasil BanovSamozhertveniyat

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