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Toplo (1978)

Toplo poster
Original title
Топло
Directed by
Vladimir Yanchev
Genre
comedy film
Country
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
B
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Bulgarian comedy about people's anxious experiences with home repair contractors. It follows residents in 1970s Sofia dealing with the expansion of the city's centralized heating system.

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What happens

Toplo (Bulgarian: Топло) is a comedy film released in Bulgaria in 1978. It was written and directed by Vladimir Yanchev. The film satirizes the eternal fear of all Bulgarians to have contractors fixing problems in their houses. The story develops at the end of the seventies, the time of the vast expansion of the centralized system for heat- and warm water supply, in Sofia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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