Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

• Nikolay Binev
  Nikolay Binev
  Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....
  
  
• Stoyan Bachvarov
• Rusi Chanev
• Georgi Cherkelov
• Stefan Danailov
  Stefan Danailov
  Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...
  
  
• Itzhak Fintzi
• Georgi Georgiev
  Georgi Georgiev
  Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian musician. Along with singer-songwriter Svilen Noev, Georgiev is the mastermind behind the music of Ostava. He is heavily influenced by contemporaries Noel Gallagher, The Edge, Johnny Marr, and Jonny Greenwood.-External links:...
  
  
• Kiril Gospodinov
  Kiril Gospodinov
  Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...
  
  
• Stanislav Ianevski
  Stanislav Ianevski
  Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...
  
  
• Georgi Kaloyanchev
  Georgi Kaloyanchev
  Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...
  
  
• Velko Kanev
• Apostol Karamitev
  Apostol Karamitev
  Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...
  
  
• Nevena Kokanova
  Nevena Kokanova
  Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....
  
  
• Todor Kolev
• Tatyana Lolova
  Tatyana Lolova
  Tatyana Lolova is a Bulgarian stage and film actress born in 1934.She is best known for her comedy roles that she has played for more than a 40 years career, bringing her the reputation as one of the most popular Bulgarian actresses.-Biography and Career:...
  
  
• Georgi Mamalev
• Hristo Mutafchiev
• Stoyanka Mutafova
  Stoyanka Mutafova
  Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...
  
  
• Lyubomir Neikov
  Lyubomir Neikov
  Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...
  
  
• Dimitar Panov
  Dimitar Panov
  -Biography and Career:Panov was born on July 18, 1902 in the town of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. He made his debut in 1955 on the stage of the Plovdiv Theater in the Chehov's play Five Small Comedies...
  
  
• Georgi Partsalev
  Georgi Partsalev
  Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...
  
  
• Katya Paskaleva
  Katya Paskaleva
  Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...
  
  
• Pavel Popandov
• Petar Popyordanov
• Georgi Rusev
  Georgi Rusev
  Georgi Iliev Rusev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor.Rusev created a real gallery of colorful characters for about four decades in the film industry. He became famous as a master of the so called "second plan roles".-Biography and Career:...
  
  
• Krastyu Sarafov
• Yosif Sarchadzhiev
• Hristo Shopov
  Hristo Shopov
  Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...
  
  
• Naum Shopov
• Petar Slabakov
• Nikola Todev
  Nikola Todev
  -Biography and Career:Todev was born on June 13, 1928 in the town of Devin, Smolyan Province. He started acting on the stage of Smolyan theater in 1952...
  
  
• Kosta Tsonev
  Kosta Tsonev
  Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...
  
  
• Grigor Vachkov
• Martina Vachkova
• Ani Valchanova
• Philip Trifonoff

Notable Film

Film

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• (1958) Lyubimetz 13
  Lyubimetz 13
  Lyubimetz 13 is a comedy movie released in Bulgaria in 1958. It was directed by Vladimir Yanchev and written by Lyuben Popov and Vladimir Yanchev. The film tells an amusing story about the efforts of three soccer clubs to attract the player of the day. But when the player’s twin brother - a...
  
  - Favourite #13
• (1962) Tyutyun- Tobacco (nominated for a Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival
  Cannes Film Festival
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   in 1963)
• (1964) Kradetzat Na Praskovi
  Kradetzat Na Praskovi
  Kradetsat Na Praskovi is a 1964 Bulgarian film, directed by Vulo Radev and based on a story by Emilian Stanev. Set towards the end of World War I, it tells the story of a whirlwind love affair between a Serbian prisoner of war, Ivo Obrenovich and a Colonel's wife, Elisaveta, played by Nevena...
  
  - The Peach-Garden Trespasser

• (1970) Kit
  Whale (film)
  Whale 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....
  
   - Whale
• (1970) Bash Maystorat - The Past-Master
• (1972) Kozijat Rog- The Goat Horn
• (1973) Prebroyavane na Divite Zaytsi - The Hare Census
• (1973) Siromashko Lyato
  Indian Summer (1973 film)
  Indian Summer is a 1973 Bulgarian comedy and drama film directed by Milen Nikolov and written by Mormarevi Brothers. The film stars Georgi Partsalev, Tatyana Lolova, Ivan Kondov, Itzhak Fintzi and Leda Taseva.-Cast:-Response:...
  
   - Indian Summer
• (1974) Selyaninat s Koleloto
  A Peasant on a Bicycle (film)
  A Peasant on a Bicycle is a Bulgarian film released in 1974.The passage of time cannot erase the past, the memories, the dreams. The big city absorbs the life of a man with a delicate soul and adherence to the countryside and his native village in particular...
  
   - A Peasant on a Bicycle
• (1975) Osadeni Dushi
  Osadeni Dushi
  Osadeni Dushi is a 1975 Bulgarian film, starring Jan Englert and Edit Solay, based on the novel by Dimitar Dimov.-Plot outline:The epic film, directed by Vulo Radev, tells the tragic story of Fanny Horn and Father Eredia...
  
  - Doomed Souls
• (1975) Svatbite na Ivan Asen- The Weddings of King Ivan Assen
• (1976) Shturets v Uhoto
  A Cricket in the Ear (film)
  A Cricket in the Ear is a Bulgarian film released in 1976.A comedy with a spice of drama about two young men who live in the country but decide to move to the big city. All the travel turns into a reason for consideration and giving a new meaning to their past and future life...
  
  - A Cricket in the Ear
• (1976) Dva Dioptara Dalekogledstvo - Farsighted for Two Diopters
• (1978) Toplo
  Toplo
  Toplo 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...
  
  - Warmth

• (1980) Dami Kanyat
  Ladies' Choice (film)
  Ladies' Choice is a Bulgarian film released in 1980.A charming driving instructor, divorced and poor, flirts with his numerous female students all of the time. No matter of age, occupation or marital status as if all the bored women in this town court this country "Don Juan"...
  
  - Ladies Choice
• (1981) Asparuh
  Aszparuh
  Aszparuh is a 1981 Bulgarian film about the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in AD 681.This film was directed by Ludmil Staikov.-Cast:* Stoyko Peev as "Khan Asparukh of Bulgaria"* Antony Genov as "Velizariy"...
  
  - Khan Asparoukh
• (1981) Orkestar bez ime
  Orkestar bez ime
  Orkestar bez ime is a comedy movie released in Bulgaria in 1981. It was directed by Lyudmil Kirkov and written by Stanislav Stratiev. The movie describes the life of the young generation in Bulgaria in the late seventies and early eighties...
  
  - A Nameless Band
• (1983) Gospodin za Edin Den- King for a Day
• (1984) Opasen Char
  Opasen char
  Opasen char is a comedy/crime film released in Bulgaria in 1984. It was directed by Ivan Andonov and written by Svoboda Bachvarova. The story is about a highly educated and charming gentleman - the dream of every lonely lady. In fact he is a brilliant cheat, who robs naïve women...
  
  - Dangerous Charm
• (1988) Vreme na nasilie
  Vreme na nasilie
  Time of Violence is a 1988 Bulgarian film based on the novel of Anton Donchev Vreme razdelno . It consists of two episodes which combined length is 288 minutes...
  
  - Time of Violence
• (1988) Vchera
  Vchera
  - Synopsis:The film tells the story of an elite Bulgarian school where the sons and daughters of high-ranking Communist officials are educated. The main characters are Ivan, his best friend Rostislav, Dana , Marina and Kostov...
  
  - Yesterday

• (2001) Pismo do Amerika- Letter to America
• (2001) Opashkata Na Diavola- Devil's Tail
• (2004) Mila ot Mars- Mila from Mars
• (2005) Otkradnati Ochi- Stolen Eyes
• (2006) Razsledvane- Investigation
• (2008) Dzift - Zift
• (2010) Misiya London - Mission London
• (2010) HDSP: Lov na drebni hishtnici - HDSP: Hunting down small predators
• (2011) Tilt
  Tilt (2011 film)
  Tilt is a 2011 Bulgarian drama film directed by Viktor Chouchkov. The film has been selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Plot:...
  
   - TILT

See also

• Cinema of the world
• History of cinema
• List of famous Bulgarians
• Sofia International Film Festival
  Sofia International Film Festival
  Sofia International Film Festival gathers together in Sofia films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans. Featured in Variety’s Top 50 of cinema festivals, the event presents Bulgaria to the world as the host one of the important film festivals in Europe and takes place annually in March...
  
  
• World cinema
  World cinema
  World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-English speaking countries. It is therefore often used interchangeably with the term foreign film...
  
  

External links

• Sofia International Film Festival Website
• New Bulgarian Cinema (College Gate Press, 2008) by Dina Iordanova
  Dina Iordanova
  Dina Iordanova is an educationalist and Professor of Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. A specialist in world cinema, her special expertise is in the cinema of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Europe in general...
  
  
• KinoKultura Special Issue on Bulgarian Cinema edited by Dina Iordanova
  Dina Iordanova
  Dina Iordanova is an educationalist and Professor of Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. A specialist in world cinema, her special expertise is in the cinema of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Europe in general...
  
  and Ron Holloway
• european-films.net - Reviews, trailers, interviews, news and previews of recent and upcoming European films (in English)