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Hotel Central (film)

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Hotel Central
Хотел Централ (Hotel Zentral)
Directed byVeselin Branev
Written byVeselin Branev
StarringIren Krivoshieva
CinematographyYatsek Todorov
Edited byNadezhda Tzenova
Music byBozhidar Petkov
Production
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Release date
  • 1983 (1983)
CountryBulgaria
LanguageBulgarian

Hotel Central (Bulgarian: Хотел Централ, also known as The Central Hotel) is a 1983 Bulgarian film written and directed by Veselin Branev. It was entered into the main competition at the 40th edition of the Venice Film Festival to large critical acclaim.[1] The film is based on two short stories of Georgi Kostantinov [bg].[2][3]

Plot

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Set on the eve of the 1934 coup d'état, the film tells the parallel stories of the chambermaid Tinka, who is forced to prostitution, and of a stage company led by Tinka's idol.

Cast

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  • Iren Krivoshieva as Tinka
  • Zhivko Garvanov [bg] as Aptekaryat Yonchev
  • Valentin Gadzhokov as Stefo
  • Boryana Puncheva as Lencheto
  • Anton Radichev as Stavri
  • Stoyan Stoev as Benyo

References

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  1. ^ Goulding, Daniel J. (1989). Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-253-34559-2.
  2. ^ Slater, Thomas J. (1992). Handbook of Soviet and East European Films and Filmmakers. Greenwood Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-313-26239-5.
  3. ^ LPR (12 July 1984). "The Central Hotel (review)". LA Weekly. p. 22. Retrieved 15 February 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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