Whale (1970)
January 26, 1970Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Georgi Kaloyanchev
Parushev
Dimitar Panov
Kalcho Kalchev
Georgi Partsalev
Glavniyat inzhener
Grigor Vachkov
Captain
Tzvyatko Nikolov
Petrov, nachalnik ribna baza
Stoyanka Mutafova
баба Стойна
Petar B. Vasilev
Director
Nikola Dinev
Redaktorat
Cheremuhin
Writer
Atanas Boyadzhiev
Composer
Georgi Naumov
Switchboard operator
Emil Vagenstein
Cinematographer
Evstati Stratev
Nachalnik parahodstvo
Ani Radicheva
Editor
Naicho Petrov
Parvi zam
Iskra Licheva
ProductionDesigner
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Whale (Bulgarian: Кит / Kit) is a 1970 Bulgarian satirical comedy film directed by Petar B. Vasilev and written by Cheremuhin. The film stars Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dimitar Panov, Georgi Partsalev, Grigor Vachkov and Tsvyatko Nikolov.
This film had one of the most scandalous and at the same time mythological destinies in the history of Bulgarian cinema. It was filmed in 1967 but not released until 1970 when it was shown at a few small cinema halls in an edition that had been expurgated by the communist authorities. Whale satirizes the extant defects in the economic and social structure of the state in those years. Moreover, the film unambiguously specifies the exact carriers of the negative effects. The target is the bureaucratic pathos at the different ruling levels. The pathos by means of which various data and information are manipulated in the name of non-existing achievements.
In the film was born one of the most popular quotes in the Bulgarian cinema:
Fishing boat captain: "It's a sprat, but it's still a fish."Fisherman: "It's a fish, but it's still a sprat!"