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Top French Model Laetitia Casta to Star in Film of Hit Bulgarian Director
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Top French model and actress Laetitia Casta will be the star of Kamen Kalev's new feature film. Photo by EPA/BGNES
French top model Laetitia Casta will be the star of the new movie of Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev, whose first feature film “Eastern Plays” became an international hit.
Kalev is starting Tuesday the shooting of his second feature film entitled “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 hit director has revealed that he had the script for “The Island” ready even before the one for “Eastern Plays.”
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”. The shooting is planned to continue for two months.
“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.
A video of the first day of the shooting of Kalev's new film with Laetitia Casta watch HERE
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