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Kamen Kalev has won the Best Director award at the Tokyo Film Festival. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian movie "Eastern Plays" of Director Kamen Kalev won first price at the Intertional Movie Festival in Tokyo, Japan.
The movie competed for the big prize with 14 other films, which were selected from among 800 titles from 81 countries.
In addition to that, Kamen Kalev was given the Best Director award, and the Best Actor award was given to Hristo Hristov, the main character who plays himself in the movie. Hristov died of drug abuse by the end of the shooting of “Eastern Plays”, which tells his story.
Thus, “Eastern Plays” received three out of a total of four awards at the Tokyo festival. Director Kamen Kalev has described the award as a “miracle”. The big prize includes the sum of USD 50 000.
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