Bulgarian Director Kamen Kalev's New Film to Premiere in Fall

Culture | March 2, 2011, Wednesday // 13:08|  views

Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev and French actress Laetitia Casta during the filming of "The Island". Photo by BGNES

The second film of Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev, "The Island", will be first presented to the audience in Sofia in October, the crew informed.

French top model and actress Laetitia Casta and Danish actor Thure Lindhardt play the main roles in the movie, which was filmed on Bulgaria's St. Anastasia Island, formerly called Bolshevik Island, near the Black Sea city of Burgas.

"The Island" also features Bulgarian actors Rusi Chanev, Boyka Velkova, Mihail Mutafov, as well as some non-professional actors.

The crew informed that the editing was completed several days ago in Denmark. The work was done by Asa Mossberg, who was co-editor of "Antichrist", the 2009 movie of director Lars von Trier.

"The Island" was listed in The Most Anticipated Films of 2011 in the influential French film magazine "Cahiers du cin?ma", alongside movies by Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Kalev's first movie "Eastern Plays" was the first Bulgarian movie in the last 20 years to be selected at the Cannes Film Festival. It was screened at Directors' Fortnight in 2009. It also won several Bulgarian and international awards.

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Tags: Kamen Kalev, The Island, Eastern Plays, Laetitia Casta, Thure Lindhardt, Cannes Film Festival

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