Tzvetana Maneva
Biography: Tsvetana Maneva is a theatre, film and television actress, theatre teacher and political figure. She is one of the most famous Bulgarian actresses with numerous roles on the stage of theatre, television and cinema with more than 50 films with her participation.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 30, 1944
Deathday: N/A
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Under One Sky
1982-01-01
Under One Sky
Overview: After working for four difficult years in the Far North, extracting timber in the taiga, Bulgarian Angel Naydenov and Russian Nikolai Pavlov, leaders of a large timber industry enterprise, became friends, as it turned out, forever. And now, meeting a friend at the Sofia airport, Naydenov recalls joint successes and defeats.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Status: Orderly
1978-03-14
Status: Orderly
Overview: Set in the thirties, a sensitive peasant boy who is caught in the vice of cruel military machine. From the start his masters treat him as an inanimate object, which can change hands without so much as a second thought. This is a story about human dignity in a society resting on violence and subordination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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Kaloyan
1963-01-21
Kaloyan
Overview: 1197. King Kaloyan ascends the throne in hard times for Bulgaria. The country is still recovering from a century of Byzantine subjugation. He is forced to carry out a very flexible foreign policy in order to strength his positions. Pope Innocent III recognizes him as Emperor (Tsar), but a little later the fourth Crusade crosses the country under Emperor Baldwin. A new conflict is coming. Tsar Kaloyan wages the decisive battle at Adrianople and wins.
Genres: History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1963-01-21
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Leaf, torn away
Leaf, torn away
Overview: Vesa, a 16-year old Bulgarian girl, cannot speak. A fortune-teller predicts that the girl will convalesce if somebody sacrifices their life for her. The fortune-teller's mentally challenged nephew, who comes to hear the prophecy, follows the girl.
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Original Language: bg
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Marital Jokes
1989-09-04
Marital Jokes
Overview: Six stories about the modern Bulgarian family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-09-04
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Forget About This Case
1985-05-06
Forget About This Case
Overview: Inspector Andreev arrives in a small provincial town. He starts digging through his predecessor's unsolved case, which involves certain big shots in town.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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I've Been Waiting For You
1984-10-01
I've Been Waiting For You
Overview: Nurse Nikolova takes care of the elderly. She faces various human destinies. Her patients spend the rest of their lives alone. They seek from her what they have not received from their own children. They love her. Nurse Nikolova touches on the complex problems of human existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Porwanie
1985-01-09
Porwanie
Overview: A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence
2007-01-01
Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence
Overview: A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to the communist ideals she became an avid critic of the regime and brought upon herself the wrath of its censorship. As a result four of her nine films were shelved and released to the public only after the fall of the regime in 1989, and Binka Zhelyazkova became known as the bad girl of Bulgarian cinema. A provocative portrait that reveals the pressures and complexities that arise when art is made under totalitarianism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Measure for Measure
1981-05-04
Measure for Measure
Overview: Early 20th century. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. Uprising are incited, blood is shed. The picture features national leaders who become heroes as early as in their lifetime. The protagonist is rank-and-file Macedonian who is unwittingly swept by the events. Later, it was his conscious choice. He was a witness of changes, crucial for the nation. He comes across legendary personalities. He gets enchanted and disappointed. He is seeking for the right answers, rethinks what he saw and experienced to tell his story in his simple, but candid and wise words of his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1981-05-04
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Noshtnite bdeniya na pop Vecherko
1980-05-19
Noshtnite bdeniya na pop Vecherko
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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Looking for a Husband for Mum
1985-04-01
Looking for a Husband for Mum
Overview: 8-year old Alek's parents are divorced and he lives with his mother. He can feel that after the divorce there has been a big void in her life. He decides to help her by finding a suitable husband. He first decides on an athlete, then a driver but none of them seem to be good enough for her. Then he runs into Chony, who immediately feels as the perfect fit for mum. Alek has to figure out how to make the two of them meet and at the same time divert mum's attention from uncle Mincho. All of his plans eventually fail but Alek comes to realize that he should not meddle with his mother's personal life and let her choose for herself.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Impure Blood
1996-04-13
Impure Blood
Overview: Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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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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The Swimming Pool
1977-08-29
The Swimming Pool
Overview: Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-08-29
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The Last Word
1973-09-07
The Last Word
Overview: The seven women inmates in Poslednata Duma are imprisoned because they have been associated with partisans opposing the fascist puppet government of the German Nazis. Each of them has the power to save herself if she will betray the others, and each bravely refuses to do so, even though it means they all will die. Despite their grim situation, and the atrocities perpetuated on them as political prisoners, they manage to laugh, and even celebrate a festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-09-07
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Surgeons
1977-10-01
Surgeons
Overview: This is a film about moral dilemmas which surgeons face. Dr Panov, the head doctor of a provincial hospital, has a keen sense of responsibility and he takes risks in the name of life a lot more often than his colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Fate as a Rat
2001-11-02
Fate as a Rat
Overview: It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man's dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. The film helps us to understand and forgive them.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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The Swedish Kings
1968-02-01
The Swedish Kings
Overview: The construction worker Spas decides to go on a holiday at a luxurious seaside resort where he can live "like the Swedish kings". He gets himself in strange and embarrassing situations, only to soon realize that real happiness is not in this coveted gilded world but among his work brigade buddies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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The Petrov File
2015-03-06
The Petrov File
Overview: In the late 1980s, stage actor Alexander Petrov is banned from theatre without any apparent reason. When he reappears, after the demise of the Communist regime, he discovers that he had been denounced by the one man he admired most, his master and friend. He discovers this fact at the very moment that he is called upon to deliver a funeral eulogy for the man. Devastated, Petrov declares that he is retiring from public life. That’s when Markov offers his help. An old acquaintance, Markov was a former director of the secret service, who has become a successful businessman. Now, in the mid-1990s, the country is wracked by unretstrained capitalism, along with violence and gang wars. Markov, an admirer of Petrov’s stage talents, offers to make him the leader of a new political party aiming at rescuing the country. Can this work? Is Markov the right man to be allied with? Petrov must make a fateful decision.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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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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Parched
2005-06-10
Parched
Overview: Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future; he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the live of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-years sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the tree of them are smiling and happy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Buna
1975-10-03
Buna
Overview: 1920's. A young girl - teacher comes from the city to a small, poor village to teach the children. There is a medic in the village. Without being a doctor, he has taken up the noble deed to help people. The "miracle" of the village is two twins - brother and sister, Lefter and Leftera. Both of them resell village land. Everyone is feeling the pressure from the twins. This causes the eruption of a violent and bloody riot.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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To Eat the Apple
1976-01-09
To Eat the Apple
Overview: Maria, a beautiful middle-aged woman, former participant in the fight against Nazism is killed. The investigator Urumov discovers the criminal. Urumov wants to know the reason why Dzherikarov has committed the murder. Dzherikarov is a former officer of the king army. Maria's memories expose the fact that she has arrested his commander in the past. By killing Maria, he wants to save his understanding of "officer's honor". Urumov sees that Maria's daughter leaves at the mother's grave an apple. In order to save her illusion, he eats the apple every time. In final talk with Dzherikarov, the murderer condemns himself to death and eats the apple.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-01-09
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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 Last Bachelor
1974-08-15
The Last Bachelor
Overview: The middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely unacceptable in a cramped socialist society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-08-15
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A Difficult Love
1974-10-04
A Difficult Love
Overview: In a small town, two married people fall in love. What difficulties they will face and how to cope with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Dangerous Charm
1984-06-18
Dangerous Charm
Overview: He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. Yet, he remains an amiable swindler, an unrealized actor, whose only goal is make his life more interesting.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1984-06-18
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On the Roofs at Night
1988-02-08
On the Roofs at Night
Overview: 1987 Bulgarian 2-part television feature film (drama) directed by Binka Zhelyazkova
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-02-08
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Stand By Me
2023-05-01
Stand By Me
Overview: An elderly painter wakes up in a wooden boat in the middle of the sea with no memory of who he is. The only thing he has in him is a letter he has yet to open to read. “Stand By Me” explores the depth of human connection, the fragility of memory, and the extraordinary courage it takes to love unconditionally in the face of an ever-changing reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2023-05-01
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Away from the shore
2019-09-13
Away from the shore
Overview: A talented theatre director has been expelled from the capital for two years. And he has been sent to a small provincial theatre where he wants to put a play that his thoughts are obsessed with. This play talks about people who are being constantly watched and are living in constant fear of punishment. Gradually, the nightmares of the play begin to move into the life of the troupe...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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