Katya Paskaleva
Biography: From Wikipedia Katya Paskaleva (Bulgarian: Катя Паскалева) was a Bulgarian film and stage actress, born in 1945, deceased in 2002. She is best known for her performance as Maria in the Bulgarian film classic The Goat Horn (1972), for which she gained a broad critical acclaim. Paskaleva is also known for her roles in the films The End of the Song (1971), Villa Zone (1975), Matriarchy (1977), Elegy (1982), Eve on the Third Floor (1987) as well as her numerous notable appearances on the stages of the Sofia Municipal Theatre and the Satirical Theatre “Aleko Konstantinov”.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 18, 1945
Deathday: July 23, 2002
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The Goat Horn
1972-10-04
The Goat Horn
Overview: XVII century, Bulgaria is under Ottoman rule. Four men break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their child, Maria. To protect his daughter and to enact revenge, he raises Maria as a son, teaching her to fight and kill. But as Maria grows up, she longs for a different life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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Villa Zone
1975-05-30
Villa Zone
Overview: A common Bulgarian family spends a warm afternoon in the fall in a country house. The preparations for a dinner party are in full swing. The formal reason is that the son enlists in the Army and the real reason is to arrange a match between him and the daughter of the boss. All the schemes are frustrated as it turns out that the boy has already married another girl. Both the hosts and the guests lose control, unleashing a consecution of tragic or comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-05-30
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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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Matriarchy
1977-03-25
Matriarchy
Overview: The film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a group of women who have been left alone in their 'female kingdom' - a village deserted by its entire men folk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-03-25
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Eva on the Third Floor
1987-05-04
Eva on the Third Floor
Overview: Gynecology clinic in Sofia, Bulgaria. On one of the floors several women are waiting for their turn to get an abortion. And on the other floor, four older women struggle to preserve the life they carry. Toni must decide whether to give birth to a child who will not have a father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1987-05-04
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The Biggest Sin
1982-09-13
The Biggest Sin
Overview: In the last moments of his life, the writer turns over episodes from his past. He finds the cause of another death, ahead of the last breath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-09-13
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Sunstroke
1977-11-14
Sunstroke
Overview: Near a large Bulgarian city begins the construction of a large factory. There is a fertile land in close by. Prof. Dimov, Director of the Environment Protection Institute has to submit his official approval for the civil works to begin. He and his co-worker Prof. Radev refuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-11-14
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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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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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Detour
1967-05-01
Detour
Overview: On the road one day two people meet again after seventeen years. They'd had a brief, burning affair seventeen years earlier, in their idealistic youth. That had been just after the war, the time of great enthusiasms and faith in the future. Wishing to dedicate themselves to the new society they had chosen to renounced personal happiness, considering their love as an impermissible sidetrack from the requirements of the time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Stars in Her Hair, Tears in Her Eyes
1977-09-18
Stars in Her Hair, Tears in Her Eyes
Overview: This is a film about a traveling theatrical group in the beginning of 20th century. The itinerant troupe arrives in the little town, comprising several families, an eccentric student, an anarchist, all united by their love for theatre. The theatricals of 'Othello' are pending. All of a sudden, the performer of Desdemona falls ill. The local woman teacher plays in her stead. She makes a success and joins the troupe. The young woman travels with them along the dusty country roads and never gives up. Step by step she becomes a very good actress and assumes the leading of the group through its complex life. United by their common fate, the actors go through the joys and disappointments of their pioneering educative mission together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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The Countess
1989-08-18
The Countess
Overview: A teenage girl's rebellion through drugs becomes a metaphor for the struggle between individuality and totalitarianism. Amidst the political upheaval of 1968, Sybilla (the "Countess") is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists efforts to remold her personality. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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End of the Song
1971-01-28
End of the Song
Overview: A tragic love story set in the Rhodope mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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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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Men Without Work
1973-02-23
Men Without Work
Overview: A road-building team is forced to stay idle for a couple of days since the asphalt has not been delivered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Memory
1974-04-19
Memory
Overview: The days of antifascist fight are over. In an orphanage for gifted children lives Milcho. The music helps him to escape from the real world to the world of memories. He remembers the days that the police officer arrested his mother for hiding a fugitive. A bright mark has left people that Milcho met, looking for his mother: the good old musician, the gypsy Shukri - raw natural talent, the beautiful Mila, and the Poet. They help Milcho to live through his pain. A piano concert of Brahms is playing by the young artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-04-19
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This Fine Mature Age
1985-07-01
This Fine Mature Age
Overview: An older man of high social standing begins to understand that he's not as perfect as he believed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-07-01
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Boomerang
1979-03-05
Boomerang
Overview: The last student days before the redistribution. The linguist must go to a remote village to work as a teacher. The outlook is not good at all for the ambitious man who published his own story and is searching for the realization of a career in literature. Mihail is looking for the possibility that will let him in Sofia. He is from countryside; his diploma is not of the highest merit; his career as an author is still not established. He meets by chance a famous writer. Soon the attitude of Mihail towards the writer becomes colder,, since he understands that he was used as an object of description. Mihail sees the situation as a deal - he offers "material" for the writer's novel for a note, needed for him to stay in Sofia. The writer's uncompromising nature breaks the deal and Mihail is traveling to the village or maybe to himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-03-05
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The Poet and The Devil
1983-12-24
The Poet and The Devil
Overview: Fictional film about Hristo Smirnenski's life before his death of tuberculosis at 27...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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The Great Victory
1973-02-09
The Great Victory
Overview: The grand auto-tour of Bulgaria begins. Excellent drivers take part in it. The Bonev brothers are in the Bulgarian team. They have decided to win this race no matter what. With great efforts, they manage to get ahead from the rest. An unexpected problem arises - some rocks nave fallen on the road. The confident drivers manage to avoid the crash closely. Their road to victory is open. However, a feeling of responsibility arises. There will be accidents for sure. The brothers stay at he crash site to warn the other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-02-09
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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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The Forbidden Fruit
1994-10-28
The Forbidden Fruit
Overview: The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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Chicho Krastnik
1988-05-02
Chicho Krastnik
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Genres: Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-05-02
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Starting from the Scratch
1996-11-15
Starting from the Scratch
Overview: A delicate analysis of the movement of the human spirit and the love between men and women which has the power to reveal the beauty of the soul from the cradle to the grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Spirka za nepoznaty
1989-01-30
Spirka za nepoznaty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-01-30
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