Stefan Danailov
Biography: Stefan Lambov Danailov (Bulgarian: Стефан Ламбов Данаилов) (born 9 December 1942) is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria (August 2005 – July 2009). The first film Danailov took part in was The Traces Remain (Следите остават) when he was a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor but in 1966, he graduated from VITIZ (Bulgarian Theatre Academy). His best-known work is as Major Deyanov in the series На всеки километър (At Each Kilometer). He has participated in numerous films and plays for which he won a lot of prizes. For several years he has been a professor at the Theatre Academy in Sofia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 09, 1942
Deathday: November 27, 2019
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
2009-03-11
St. George Shoots the Dragon
Overview: Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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The Black Angels
1970-09-04
The Black Angels
Overview: The film is based on the memoir 'In the name of the People' by Mitka Grybcheva, an activist in the anti-fascist resistance. The action takes place during the WWII and reveals the sharp clash between police power and resistance forces, headed by the Communist Party of Bulgaria. This is a time when, 'in the name of the people', the fighters are setting up underground combat groups, which punish with death their political opponents. The film's characters are specially trained for the purpose young people, members of one such combat group. Against the background of their risky task, in the execution of which they have to pay with their own lives, every facet of their characters stands out. Faced with death they reveal their intimate worlds, their unrealized youthful impulses that have been sacrificed in the name of commands, disparate from the Ten Christian Commandments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-04
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The Traces Remain
1956-09-03
The Traces Remain
Overview: This is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A group of kids play on a quiet street in Sofia. From a nearby window falls a key. The helpful youngsters quickly return it to the owner, but in the haste switch the keys. The unintentional error disentangles a whole spy story. The young detectives doubt the good intentions of the man they tried to help. It turns out that the key is from a secret apartment where saboteurs are hiding. The secret network is exposed to the authorities and the kids feel like heroes.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1956-09-03
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The Deep End of the Ocean
1998-03-08
The Deep End of the Ocean
Overview: A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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The Berlin Conspiracy
1992-03-24
The Berlin Conspiracy
Overview: As the Berlin Wall crumbles, four canisters containing biological weapons are stolen by European terrorists. The East and West must work together to stop the terrorists from selling the weapons to the highest bidder. It is up to the CIA and an East German agent to overcome their own differences and get the weapons back.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-24
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Crystals
1982-04-24
Crystals
Overview: Natural minerals are found all over the world. They represent the wealth of the country they come from. This film conveys the beauty of minerals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-04-24
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Protect the Small Animals
1988-08-01
Protect the Small Animals
Overview: Two friends from their student years are dating. One of them is the director of a peasant school, and the other is an impresario in show business. Memories bring them back to their youth. What have they lost and what have they kept over the years? These questions are answered by the heroes at dawn, after a stormy night.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta!
1976-01-01
Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta!
Overview: Television adaptation of the comedy "Mihal Mishkoed" by Sava Dobroplodni. Bay Mihal, one of the wealthy residents of the town, is in love with the beautiful Radka. A naive and somewhat foolish old bachelor approaching his fifties, he is determined to marry her at any cost. Around Bay Mihal, there are flattering matchmakers assuring him that she also loves him. He is generous and extravagant, blindly believing their words that they will persuade her to accept him. However, Radka has no idea that Bay Mihal has feelings for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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After the End of the World
1998-11-29
After the End of the World
Overview: Two friends (Katerina Didaskalo, Stefan Danalyov) are separated when their village is divided by Communism, but they meet again 40 years later and begin having an affair.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1998-11-29
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The Clairvoyant
1976-01-01
The Clairvoyant
Overview: A provincial town at the end of the 19th century. An adversary arrives who amazes the women with his incredible predictions. He enters the mayor's house and promises a lot of money to the whole family and to a guest - the priest. Allegedly unbelieving, the priest and the mayor pricked up their ears. The money would come from a young man who had recently arrived in the town. The only new arrival is Mancho - the photographer. The mayor and the priest find their way to him, and soon after the two, and after them other prominent citizens, are entangled in the crook's web, to become victims of his greed...
Genres: Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Monday Morning
1988-10-31
Monday Morning
Overview: Frivolous girl falls in love with a young construction worker. He trusts her and decides to include her in his team of workers. In the beginning, she is happy, but soon starts to feel the tensions between the people in the team. Hypocrisy and demagogy fill her with indignation and she does not keep silent about the shortcomings and mistakes of her colleagues. Gradually, her superiors become uneasy about her and the girl has to go. Her boyfriend offers her marriage, but she decides to take her own path and lead a worthy life. The movie was shot in 1966 but was censored by the communist government and released in theatres on 31st October 1988.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-10-31
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Aris
1983-01-01
Aris
Overview: 30-year-old Emilia works as a scientist and is still single. Her parents pressure her into marriage by constantly trying to set her up. In her efforts to stop her parents, Emilia makes up a relationship with a fictional man based on the Greek revolutionary Aris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Autumn Sun
1982-04-07
Autumn Sun
Overview: Bulgaria, 1930s, small provincial town. Vyara Zadgorska returned to her hometown as a doctor after six years of study in France. Along the way she meets the landowner Assen Valchev, who is fascinated by her, but she is in love with someone else - the lawyer Kiril Donchev.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-04-07
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Live Dangerously
1990-03-01
Live Dangerously
Overview: Valeri is a senior in high school and a good athlete. He's very close to his father, but when his father suffers a fatal heart attack Valeri becomes convinced the doctor is to blame. He's set on revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Dance of the Samodivi
1976-08-28
Dance of the Samodivi
Overview: In a small provincial town, an young local artist exhibits his works. One of the paintings, depicting a fairy dance of naked women, provoke the people which discover similarities with a certain lady from the neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-08-28
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A Real Man
1975-03-21
A Real Man
Overview: Among his friends, Sasho is famous for "killing a wolf". Milka, a good-hearted girl falls in love with the heroic boy. They get married and have a baby girl. In order for Sasho to continue his architecture studies, Milka starts to work in a factory. Sasho gives up his studies and he gets involved with a gang of swindlers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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Sky for All
1987-05-18
Sky for All
Overview: Anton is a former military pilot. Soon after his transition to civil aviation his wife leaves him. Despite his 45 years, he takes the change hard, the grief of his former job never leaves him. Anton and his crew are all people with interesting fates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1987-05-18
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
1975-01-03
The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Overview: The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-01-03
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Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing
1985-04-08
Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing
Overview: Part one of this two-part epic follows the life and deeds of Boris I – a strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
1985-06-03
Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
Overview: Three colleagues and devoted friends – Danton, Petar and Andrey – share an office, and not only, on the fifth floor of a socialist industrial research institute from the mid-eighties. Every morning when they come to work they lock the door of the office and, armed with binoculars and great interest, they begin watching the aerobics exercises of a young girl in the nearby building. Suddenly, their tranquil daily round is disturbed - a new director takes over the Institute and decides to develop close scientific partnerships with similar institutes in Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Ladies' Choice
1980-12-15
Ladies' Choice
Overview: A couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations, caused between the driving-teacher and the beginner-drivers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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Moments in a Matchbox
1979-02-05
Moments in a Matchbox
Overview: The 12-year-old Aneta and Boy feel that there is something like a first love between them. The kids are traveling to the countryside together. They get to two of Aneta's grandparents - one of her grandmothers was married three times. Aneta's favorite grandfather is her grandmother's third husband. He is not her real grandfather, but she loves him because he likes to fantasize. He taught Aneta a magic game - to light a match and imagine anything in flame. Her favorite grandfather dies. Aneta mourns him for a long time, lights matches but no use.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-05
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Get Out of My Light
1987-08-29
Get Out of My Light
Overview: In a modern family, each of the adults is busy with their own work. The mother of the children writes a scientific paper. Their father is a television reporter and travels the world. Their grandmother invents gadgets for teaching at school. They don't have time for children in the family. At some point, the parents realize their mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1987-08-29
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The Inspector and the Night
1963-12-16
The Inspector and the Night
Overview: A classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1963-12-16
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Dawn Over the Drava
1974-03-15
Dawn Over the Drava
Overview: In 1944 Bulgaria switches sides and joins the war against Germany. The story focuses on the advance of the Bulgarian army through Yugoslavia and Hungary, as well as its internal struggles.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-03-15
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24 Hours Rain
1982-12-06
24 Hours Rain
Overview: A gray border, dull village. Time seems to have stopped in this place. The appearance of a beautiful woman breaks the monotonous way of life and challenges the colorless group of men and makes them come out of their shells.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-12-06
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Something Out of Nothing
1979-07-08
Something Out of Nothing
Overview: A famous metropolitan journalist decides to pay a surprise visit to his classmate Pancho in the countryside. Pancho has gone to town and his wife has to greet the guest. Under the curious eyes of the neighbors, the two are waiting for him to come back home. The awkwardness between them intensifies. How will they sleep under one roof? What will people say?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-07-08
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Love
1972-04-01
Love
Overview: Maria is having great difficulty getting on with her parents because of their blind, consumerist approach to life. Traumatized by continuous family dramas, having experienced the disappointments of firs love, Maria decides to go up the mountain to a holiday home. There she meets a conceited architect, a shy teacher, a jurist, and a timid journalist (all of them representatives of the intelligentsia) who are domineered by the manager of the holiday home and his 'problems'. Maria's resignation changes into a rebellion against impersonal submission and sheep-like compliance with those who hold power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Staklenata reka
2010-03-12
Staklenata reka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Nona
1973-11-16
Nona
Overview: The beginning of the 20th century. The young Nona comes back to her father's farm from Switzerland. She meets colonel Galchev. The officer expresses his love for her. The teacher Yosif who is in love with Nona organizes a revolt of the villagers with no property. Armed villagers rob the farm. Galchev and his soldiers arrive. During the shooting, the colonel is killed. Nona accuses Yosif of Galchev's death. The carriage of Nona's fiancé, who travels from Switzerland to the village, passes by the coffin with Galchev's body. A second after the fiancé enters her house Nona kills herself.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977-10-02
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Overview: The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An early widowed baroness, having left Petersburg, and having invested all her money in organizing a volunteer sanitary detachment, she becomes a sister of mercy on the front of the Bulgarian war with the Ottoman Empire of 1878.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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Crisis in the Kremlin
1992-01-01
Crisis in the Kremlin
Overview: The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather
1971-03-05
There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather
Overview: A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent undercover to a big Western European company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1971-03-05
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Ivan Kondarev
1974-01-11
Ivan Kondarev
Overview: The film shows Bulgaria after the First World War - different destinies, different turns on both sides of the political barricade. A life full of contradictions and passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-01-11
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Queen of Turnovo
1981-02-02
Queen of Turnovo
Overview: The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town, Turnovo. A rich young doctor suffers because of his love to his housemaid. Meanwhile the First World War is beginning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1981-02-02
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Houses Without Fences
1974-02-08
Houses Without Fences
Overview: Misho becomes an orphan. The good people from the neighborhood take care of him until the child is placed in an orphanage. Everyone is trying to bring joy to the kid. However, Misho is searching for his mother's love in their eyes. Now the people are being kind to him, but there is always an invisible wall. Maybe uncle Elenko is the most sincere, since he shows his feelings in a tragic moment when Misho gets on a roof of a construction site. However, why does he care for Misho end with him convincing him to go to the orphanage?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-02-08
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Blood Remains
1980-02-25
Blood Remains
Overview: World War II. Vasil is in serious conflict with the police officer Simeonov and at the same time with his childhood friend and brother by faith - the partisan Kalin. Yana comes between Vasil and Kalin. She has grown up with them and they are both in love with her. She loves Vasil more but she cannot accept his individualism. The tragic struggle in Vasil determines his doom. After the coup on September 9, 1944, he arrests Simeonov, but when he takes him to the military tribune, he dies unexpectedly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1980-02-25
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The Sea
1967-06-23
The Sea
Overview: Zhana and Toni meet on a crowded beach. She is hanging around bars; he is seeking amorous adventures. They spent the night together, then jump into Mercedes sport car and get into a breath-taking race. In the morning, they learn that a man has been run over during the night. A dark suspicion comes over them. They travel again the same road again. The resulting confessions strip their masks from them... Believing him to be guilty, Toni wants to turn him in. However, the real culprit is detected. They move on - but in different direction...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-06-23
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Poem
1986-08-18
Poem
Overview: The action in the film takes place in a remote Bulgarian village. A certain conflict takes place between the new-coming young people and the old villages because of the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1986-08-18
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The Central Warmth
1978-11-20
The Central Warmth
Overview: A tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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The First Courier
1968-03-01
The First Courier
Overview: The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Don Quixote Returns
1997-06-03
Don Quixote Returns
Overview: Spain, XVII century. Elderly eccentric Don Quihan dreams of romance about knights and exploits. Everyone around him considers the old man crazy, only the shepherd Sancho Panse sincerely believed in the noble impulses of Don Kihano. One night, Don Quihano decides to realize his dream and escape from the city. “Don Quixote Returns” is an adventure comedy based on the novel “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel Cervantes.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-06-03
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Reunion
2019-10-18
Reunion
Overview: Three friends return from abroad and every one of them comes upon at something from his past. Finally they go to their hometown to save the house of one of their childhood friends from being demolished.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Prince
1970-05-29
The Prince
Overview: At the end of 13th and the beginning of the 14th century twenty-four-years old, Prince Svetoslav Terter takes the helm of the state. The young Prince engages in a intricate political game, into getting his way by means of court intrigues, and is forced by circumstances. Svetoslav Terter is remarkably shrewd and consistent. He is perhaps the only head of state at this time to take the liberty of impeaching the primate of the country's church. He tries to rally the neighboring Slav people to a joint resistance to the Turkish conquest. Terter lives through a great personal tragedy. He becomes estranged from his dearest person, Mariya, who is too weak to join him on the difficult road of his choice. (written by Georgi Djulgerov)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1970-05-29
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Войникът от обоза
1975-12-11
Войникът от обоза
Overview: In September 1944, the red army crosses the Danube. Private Ales together with his agricultural horses follows the victory march. A broken wheel of his cart forces Ales to fall behind and look for help in the nearby village. The "odyssey" of the common cavalry soldier begins. He becomes a friend with the Bulgarian peasants. They need to part ways with a hidden sadness and true love. —Georgi Djulgerov
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-12-11
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Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
1985-04-08
Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Overview: Knyaz Boris I reached the most important spiritual insight - the country needed a single language and script. It accepts students of Cyril and Methodius, creating Ohrid and Preslav Literary School. What other nations took centuries, for bulgarians takes place only about 20 years after their baptizing - introduced a Slavonic Alphabet.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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Iskam Amerika
1991-12-12
Iskam Amerika
Overview: A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father - a resistance hero.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1991-12-12
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