Rousy Chanev
Biography: In 1963 - 1967 he studied at the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts - Sofia, Bulgaria - acting for drama theater in the classes of prof. Boyan Danovski. As theater actor Chanev played in Drama Theater, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (1967-69); Drama Theater 'Sofia', Sofia, Bulgaria (1970-90); Little City Theater 'Off the Canal', Sofia, Bulgaria (1990-95). Chanev was artistic director of this theater during the 94-95 years. Since 1995 till nowadays he is an actor in National Theater 'Ivan Vazov', Sofia, Bulgaria. During his career, Chanev has played more than 80 characters in the theater and has starred in more than 30 features, both Bulgarian and foreign. Awards in the theater: 1998 - Best Leading Actor, Theater Festival, Blagoevgrad; 1998 - Best Leading Actor, Festival of the Small Theatrical Forms, Vratza, Bulgaria; 1994 - 'Ackeer' Award supporting male role; 1989 - Best Role Award, Eighth National Drama Festival. Ne is a member of an Union of Bulgarian film makers.The Bulgarian Film Academy 2015 representing the whole film community gives the Award for Best Actor to Rousy Chanev for "Buffer Zone".
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 18, 1945
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Time of Violence
1988-03-28
Time of Violence
Overview: In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-03-28
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The Island
2011-05-16
The Island
Overview: In Paris, Sophie and Daneel make a solid couple. Nothing, it seems, can separate them - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has organised a surprise trip to Bulgaria. Daneel refuses to go, but Sophie insists and soon discovers just why her soul mate was so reluctant to set foot in the country...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-16
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The Goat
2009-03-05
The Goat
Overview: The trumpet player, Jonah, moves into the remains of his grandfather's house near where the treasure is hidden. In a tunnel under the house he finds a stone with a bird engraved on it and a map with an inscription in Arabic: "To have a house of gold, fall onto the sky and find the twin!" A copy of the same map brings Rumba and Emma to the same place. Rumba is Bulgarian and a passionate treasure-hunter. His wife is American and studies Bulgarian folklore as a way to fight globalization. Rumba wants to buy Jonah's property so he can find the treasure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2009-03-05
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Advantage
1977-10-10
Advantage
Overview: Advantage (Bulgarian: Авантаж, translit. Avantazh) is a 1977 Bulgarian drama film directed by Georgi Djulgerov. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where Djulgerov won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The action takes place during the socialist period in Bulgaria. The central character, nicknamed the Cock is an artistic personality, a man of strong character known as the king of the pickpockets. His keen sense of personal freedom comes up against the universally accepted norms of behavior. The Cock likes a game, adventure and danger, while socialist society needs obedience. The Cock makes a stand against this order; he does not want to play his games according to rules. He is telling his story of two decades: his imprisonment and his love affairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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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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Doomed Souls
1975-10-17
Doomed Souls
Overview: The events of the film are related to the Civil War in Spain. This is a film about the beauty of love - exotic and tragic and the maze of human feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-10-17
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Buffer Zone
2015-03-06
Buffer Zone
Overview: The film's motto is: "The world of the elderly is a world that is constantly shrinking. Little things become big. Few people are important to us, but they are very important." Federico Fellini.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Illusion
1980-11-03
Illusion
Overview: The intricate relations between an Artist, an Actress and a Poet are seen against the background of one of the most dramatic events in the recent history of Bulgaria: uprising, which broke out in 1923.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1980-11-03
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The Longest Night
1967-02-22
The Longest Night
Overview: The action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a fugitive - British captive - appears among the passengers. The human solidarity is stronger than the fear, and they do their best to save him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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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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Tsar and General
1966-01-17
Tsar and General
Overview: The film is based on the conflict between the Monarch of Bulgaria -Tsar Boris III and general Vladimir Zaimov during the Second World War and discusses different understandings about heroism and self-sacrifice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1966-01-17
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Druids
2001-01-24
Druids
Overview: In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness the passing of a comet and interpret it as the sign of the coming of a king for their country Gaul, which has not had a king for a long time. Guttuart goes to Gergovia, the capital of the Arvenes tribe, to attend a meeting of Gallic tribal chieftains. The young boy Vercingetorix, along with his friend the young girl Eponia, sneak into a large cavern where Celtill, Vercingetorix's father and chieftain of the Arvenes, hosts the meeting of chieftains with the intention of proclaiming himself king of all Gauls. When Celtill shows off the crown once worn by the old kings of Gaul, an arrow from two Roman spies (dressed as Gauls) hits Celtill in the back.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-24
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The White Odyssey
1973-03-24
The White Odyssey
Overview: During World War 2, four soldiers are trapped between a harsh winter and the enemy. They need food and shelter, but this comes at the expense of their position. With no where else to turn, they begin an Odyssey through the mountains.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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A Farewell to Hemingway
2008-10-05
A Farewell to Hemingway
Overview: Bulgaria, the night of October 18, 1922. A rampageous young man - an American, is forced to get off the Orient Express at a small station. The chief of the railway station and his daughter are quite unwilling to put up the stranger. Gradually, the American wins their trust. When the father understands that his daughter has decided to go away to Paris with the American, he makes a potion to sedate him and gets him on a train on the sly. In the morning all that has left from the guest is a piece of paper, which reads "Ernest Hemingway".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-05
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Lady Zee
2006-04-27
Lady Zee
Overview: A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2006-04-27
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The Beast Is Still Alive
2016-11-11
The Beast Is Still Alive
Overview: A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past and find answers and explanations for the catastrophic fall of communism.
Genres: Animation Documentary History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch
2002-10-19
Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch
Overview: High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2002-10-19
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Torrid Noon
1965-06-08
Torrid Noon
Overview: A young boy (I. Spassov) gets his hand caught in a bridge beam on a hot summer day in this straightforward drama. As the water level rises in the river, people band together to try and save the boy before he drowns. He is comforted by his mother (G. Vachtov) and an army general (P. Slobokov), and the latter calls out the troops to save the lad from liquidation. This feature was the official Bulgarian entry at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and is devoid of the usual 1960s propaganda associated with countries from the Eastern block of Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1965-06-08
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The Penleve Case
1968-04-26
The Penleve Case
Overview: The three grotesque novels whose action takes place at different times of the recent past are united by a common thematic key – their protest against violence and militarism, expressed by means of a kind of absurd humor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1968-04-26
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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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Constantine The Philosopher
1983-05-24
Constantine The Philosopher
Overview: The story of St. Cyrilus (Constantine The Philosopher) in his quest of enlightening the Slavic people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-05-24
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The Color of the Chameleon
2013-04-05
The Color of the Chameleon
Overview: In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2013-04-05
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Icon
2005-01-01
Icon
Overview: A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian policewoman, they work to uncover a plot to use biological weapons against certain factions of the Russian people to commit genocide. The virus would also be released in other populations, but would be treated making the candidate a hero. A side plot has the agent being reunited with his long lost daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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South Wind 2: Speed Up
2021-07-19
South Wind 2: Speed Up
Overview: Nenad, Maras his little brother, wants to follow the ilegal footsteps of his brother and now Maras and Baca have to free him from the clutches of the bad guys.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-07-19
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