Hotel Central (film)

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

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

• 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

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