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This was actually the subtitle of Rainbow - the only successful comic magazine in Bulgaria, which was a total hit in the 80s and 90`s and was a must with children. The Adventures of Choko and Boko used to be published there at that time. The sequel had its animated version and the cartoon master for both versions was Rumen Petkov.

Director Kamen Kalev takes us away from the cafeteria where we were supposed to talk about his latest movie The Island because the sun outside is way too tempting to stay in. He says that after spending a few months under the sombre skies of Denmark and Sweden while making the movie he spends every possible minute in the open. After Eastern Plays` big success Cannes will have to welcome the young director`s second film.

We remember Bernd Lichtenberg as one of the scriptwriters of Goodbye Lenin, a movie from the post-Berlin-war period. We find him again to talk about his participation in the process of making TILT, the new Bulgarian hit movie.

International theatre halls would gladly welcome an actor like Ivan Burnev in their cast. He is though part of the Bulgarian National Theatre where he is currently playing Billy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest. In addtion, we met him to talk about his role in the latest Bulgarian cinema hit Footprints In the Sand.

These are Angel Hadjiyski and Zdravko Grigorov, the people who distribute alternative movies and festivals such as The Flowers of Quran, Short Circuit and Satori. They are known as the guys behind Pozor and deal with movies that do not have computer-generated explosions every 5 minutes.