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The Boy Turns Man(1972)
Status: Released
Date: 1972-05-18
70%
8 Votes
Time: 1h 32m
Overview:
The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they going to be, and what is more important, how are they going to live? In the whirlpool of meetings with different people and mainly with three women, the filmmakers are trying to see the future of their main character. His schoolmate Mariana wants to lead him into family life. The pop singer Neli is the very incarnation of adventurism. However, he is most deeply touched by the salesgirl in the near-by coffee shop Tintyava. This is a wordless affair in which each glance exchanged betrays the piercing excitement of impossible love.
Languages: Bulgarian.
Countries:
Bulgaria
ProductionCompanies:
Sofia Film Studios
Movie: The Boy Turns Man
Top 10 Billed Cast
Nevena Kokanova
Tinka
Filip Trifonov
Ran
Sashka Bratanova
Mariana
Kiril Gospodinov
Filip K. Filipov, Tinka's Husband
Anton Karastoyanov
Kamenov
Vasil Popov
Atsata
Elena Rainova
Neil Yordanova
Katya Chukova
Headmaster
Evstati Stratev
Ran's Father
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Overview
The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they going to be, and what is more important, how are they going to live? In the whirlpool of meetings with different people and mainly with three women, the filmmakers are trying to see the future of their main character. His schoolmate Mariana wants to lead him into family life. The pop singer Neli is the very incarnation of adventurism. However, he is most deeply touched by the salesgirl in the near-by coffee shop Tintyava. This is a wordless affair in which each glance exchanged betrays the piercing excitement of impossible love.
Release Date
1972-05-18
Average
7
Rating:
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