Geography of Bulgaria

French actor Gerard Depardieu will shoot a film in Bulgaria, reports Vesti.bg.

The shoot starts in November in the village of Kaloyanovo, near Plovdiv.

The production with working title Le Voyage is financed by Switzerland, the production team is Italian, the spoken language will be French. In the film will also star actors from the Plovdiv Dramatic Theatre.

Argir Boyadzhiev has been removed from the post of director and member of the Board of Directors of Port Burgas.

Bulgaria's caretaker Transport Minister has appointed Ivan Kapitanov as a new member of the Board of Directors of Port Burgas.

The managers of the Midzhur factory in the village of Gorni Lom is responsible for the deadly blast, which killed 15 people, the caretaker Minister of Labour and Social Policies Yordan Hristoskov told bTV.

According to him, the management was criminally reckless and ignored the instructions of the Labour Inspectorate and the Hazardous Devices Control (KOS) agency.

The Bulgarian animated short film "The Day Of The Bleeding Gums" won a prize for best animation and the Hollywood Weekly film festival in Los Angeles.

The film is directed by Dimitar Dimitrov - Animiter and tells the story of a day in the life of a painter. The script is by Dilian Elenkov.

The 32-nd edition of the "Golden Rose" Bulgarian feature film festival starts in Varna on October 11.

It is organised by the National Film Centre and will consist of two competitions - for feature and for short film.

Iliyan Mihaylov, Mayor of the northwestern village of Gorni Lom, which was stricken by a deadly explosion at a privately-owned explosives plant, insisted that the factory had to keep functioning due to the staggering unemployment in the area.

Friday, October 3 will be a day of national mourning after the explosion at the Midzhur ammunition factory near the northwestern village of Gorni Lom, the Council of Ministers has announced.

Balkan Holidays is adding four flights from Belfast to Burgas next year to meet demand for holidaymaking at Bulgaria's Black Sea resort of Slanchev Bryag.

The death toll from Wednesday's blast at an explosives factory in northwestern Bulgaria could be as high as 15, according to unofficial estimates.

Two women have been injured in a blast at a privately-owned plant specialized in the production of explosives near the northwestern village of Gorni Lom, Vidin district.

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