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дата: 10.08.2010
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author: Миро Златев
French top model Laetitia Casta will starring in the new movie directed by Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev, whose first feature film “Eastern Plays” has an iternationl sucess.
Kalev starterd Tuesday the shooting of his second film with thw title “The Island”, in which French model Laetitia Casta will star together with popular Danish actor Thure Lindhardt, and the Bulgarian actors Boyka Velkova, Rusi Chanev, and Mihail Mutafov, announced Kalev’s team.
The filming of “The Island” will start in Sofia, and will then continue on the St. Anastasiya Island in the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast, formerly known as “The Bolshevik Island”. In the times of the totalitarism the island was a prison for political dicidents.
“I am glad that we are finally starting to film “The Island”. A few years ago I spent several days on the Bolshevik Island, and right after that I wrote the script for the movie while I was still a student in Paris. This movie follows the journey towards one’s inner self, the search for identity, and the metamorphoses in that process. Its major focus is on the big love,” Kalev explained.
32-year-old French model Laetitia Casta has participated in more than a dozen films. Danish actor Thure Lindhardt, 35, has more than 50 movie roles, including a leading role as the young Swiss Guard Lieutenant Chartrand in the 2009 film Angels & Demons.