The Past-Master

Баш Майсторът (The Past-Master)
Directed by	Petar B. Vasilev
Written by	Atanas Mandadzhiev
Starring	Kiril Gospodinov Yuriy Yakovlev
Cinematography	Krum Krumov
Music by	Atanas Kosev
Production company	Bulgarian National Television
Release date	1973 (1973)
Running time	65 min.
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian

The Past-Master (Bulgarian: Баш Майсторът, romanized: Bash Maystorat) is a Bulgarian satiric TV comedy film released in 1973, directed by Petar B. Vasilev. The movie turned the actor Kiril Gospodinov and his character Rangel Lelin - the past-master into one of the Trade Marks of the Bulgarian film art. The Past-Master became so popular that producers were made to consider sequels which eventually happened a decade later.

There are four more films released as sequels:

• Bash Maystorat na More / The Past-Master at the Seaside (1977)
• Bash Maystorat na Ekskurziya / The Past-Master on Excursion (1980)
• Bash Maystorat Fermer / The Past-Master-Farmer (1981)
• Bash Maystorat Nachalnik / The Past-Master - Boss (1983)