Whale (film)

Кит (English: Whale)
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Directed by	Petar B. Vasilev
Written by	Hristo Mihov - Cheremuhin
Starring	Georgi Kaloyanchev Dimitar Panov Georgi Partsalev Grigor Vachkov Tsvyatko Nikolov
Cinematography	Emil Vagenshtain
Music by	Atanas Boyadzhiev
Release date	1970 (1970)
Running time	76 min.
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian

Whale (Bulgarian: Кит / Kit) is a 1970 Bulgarian satirical comedy film directed by Petar B. Vasilev and written by Cheremuhin. The film stars Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dimitar Panov, Georgi Partsalev, Grigor Vachkov and Tsvyatko Nikolov.

This film had one of the most scandalous and at the same time mythological destinies in the history of Bulgarian cinema. It was filmed in 1967 but not released until 1970 when it was shown at a few small cinema halls in an edition that had been expurgated by the communist authorities.^[1] Whale satirizes the extant defects in the economic and social structure of the state in those years. Moreover, the film unambiguously specifies the exact carriers of the negative effects. The target is the bureaucratic pathos at the different ruling levels. The pathos by means of which various data and information are manipulated in the name of non-existing achievements.

In the film was born one of the most popular quotes in the Bulgarian cinema:^{[citation needed]}

Fishing boat captain:
 "It's a sprat, but it's still a fish."
Fisherman:
 "It's a fish, but it's still a sprat!"