Itzhak Finzi
Also Known As: Itschak Fintzi, Izko Fintzi, Ицхак Финци, Ицко Финци
Biography: Itzhak Fintzi (also known as Itzko Fintzi), born on April 25, 1933, in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a distinguished Bulgarian actor whose career spans over seven decades in theatre, film, and radio. A graduate of the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1955, Fintzi is celebrated for his nuanced portrayals of everyday characters, often embodying the “Big Little Man”—a figure marked by dignity, modesty, and resilience amidst life’s adversities.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
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About the Possibility of a Life
Overview: This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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City of Fear
Overview: When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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King Grandpa
Overview: Clemens lives and breathes his grandfather’s stories. When his grandfather passes away, it is difficult for him to understand that it is now his turn to continue telling his stories. Story-telling becomes a way for him to not only keep the stories but also the memory of his grandfather alive.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-10
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The Rain of Paris
Overview: A street artist draws pictures on the pavement in Paris, begging for money. After a rain all his paintings are erased so he starts all over.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Csontvary
Overview: Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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Protected Zone
Overview: Boyan Borov is on the trail of some poachers who killed mouflons in a protected area. Instead he comes across traces of the murder of his father which occurred many years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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Indian Summer
Overview: The day that the financial clerk Metodi Rashkov is getting retired comes. He is a shy and quiet man and he accepts all tasks given to him by his son and daughter in law without argument. With time, he becomes a housekeeper; he shops, cooks and looks after his grandson. In order to save his face in front of his friends he lies to them and falls in a number of uncomfortable situations. The "Expolsion" becomes imminent. The reason is insignificant but with great consequences. Rashkov leaves his home. Soon the freedom which he wanted becomes boring for him. The abandoned family begins to miss the grandfather. At the end everyone sees their mistakes and is ready to fix them. The birth of a second grandson is the event which brings everyone under the same roof again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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King for a Day
Overview: This film is a comedy about a poor man named Purko. Purko always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-05-16
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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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The Child Prodigy
Overview: On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the "Little Canadian Mozart" blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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The Wardrobe
Overview: A young couple dream of having a wardrobe. When they buy it the wardrobe begins to totally manipulate their life - it orders their deeds, sets their taste, enslaves them.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-07-15
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Third Planet in the Solar System
Overview: The film is in 3 parts: 1) 'Eden' - Aliens from the planet Rhea have flown with a damaged spaceship to Earth, looking for intelligent beings. They find apemen and take one of them into their ship. 2) 'The Wanderer' - A crime writer, who is travelling to see his dying friend, picks up a strange hitchhiker. On his return from the sanatorium, his car goes off the road, but the stranger lifts it into the air and lands it back on the highway. Then he goes to the writer's house and shows him his supernatural abilities. 3) 'My First Day' - Len, an alien traveler arrives on Earth to share with humans the knowledge of their ancient civilization. He meets its inhabitants, who are served by robots and travel back in time, because their life is boring and meaningless. Every day his hostess Lena visits an ancient Slavic settlement and monitors its inhabitants. One day she appears before the hunter Bayan, who has been captivated by her beauty and takes her into his hut.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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The Motorbike
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2018-03-13
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Uprising
Overview: In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-04
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Escape to Ropotamo
Overview: After a successful concert, the famous singer Lina Dimova disappears. She travels to the seaside, where she pretends to be mute and lives in the cabin of Manol at the bed of Ropotamo River.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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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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Dog's Home
Overview: A retired opera female singer terrorizes people and animals because of her love for a 20-year old boy (in the days of the Total Solar Eclipse 1999).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Warden of the Dead
Overview: A thirteen year old kid, "the boy", lives and works in a cemetery. The cemetery is his whole life, and growing up with the dead instills in him an obsession and respect for death. His friends depend on him: An unhappy old man, a former political prisoner yearning for death, and makeup artist for deceased, a former artist who dreams of painting a masterpiece. The boy does what he can to help them. The old man attempts suicide, but upon learning the date of his death and seeing his beautiful plot chosen for him by the boy, he is able to bear his life. Upon meeting the beautiful Maria, "the boy" gives the former artist a surprise date with her. But when Maria and the artist become closer, the boy realizes that she is the daughter of the old man. The kid thinks the old man would die unhappy if he knew of her existence and so decides to hide the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2007-06-17
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The Hare Census
Overview: The daily routine in the village of Yugla is broken by the statistician clerk Asenov, who comes with a mission to count the hare population in the locality. He makes the village mayor Bay Georgi mobilize the local men in realization of the absurd task. Same day all the village men are in the field - the mayor, the teacher, the veterinarian… Naturally all the efforts failed in fulfilling the mission since not a single hare was seen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-11-30
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Kill Daddy Good Night
Overview: The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today's Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that one could never escape from its own past. Written by themoth-1
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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The Foreign Nephew
Overview: The action of this film takes place in the past. An unknown gentleman arrives in a small European city, who leads a trained monkey with him. The monkey is dressed in clothes. The gentleman announces that the monkey is his nephew. It becomes clear that the gentleman is very rich. He bequeaths his wealth to his monkey nephew. All the residents who have unmarried daughters are in a hurry to win the heart of the monkey nephew. But the gentleman mocked them. He leaves,and the monkey stays. Angry people lock her in a cage. Two children let her out.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1990-01-08
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Walks with the Angel
Overview: Stephan is a sculptor. He refuses to do work that compromises his integrity. He has a guardian angel he talks to. We can't see him but we can hear his voice commenting on events Stephan gets involved in. As he crosses paths with the Artist, the Professor, the Director, the Poet, the Musician, the Actress and the Beloved, a world of characters arises to display a whole array of personalities and lives that share the spark of the creative spirit but also the lack of successful career. The voice of the angel reflects upon patronage in art and protecting your talent against corruptive forces, yet not through escapism but by learning the rules of the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-09-17
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A Cricket in the Ear
Overview: Two young men decide to migrate to the big city. While on the road, they start considering the ways of life through the relationships in the society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
Overview: When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-09
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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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Stars
Overview: Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Then a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. When Ruth, one of the internees, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman, the two form an unlikely bond.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-23
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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 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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Belated Full Moon
Overview: The story largely centers on a grandfather who finds himself deeply depressed by the dramatic downward turns Bulgarian society has taken. The changes of the past half century have created a deep communications gap between generations and he is unable to communicate with his troubled son. Nor is the old man able to do much to help his grandson who is making his first forays into criminal life, blaming it all on his mother who admits she is incapable of loving him. The grandfather tires of life with the bleak family and so goes to an old folks home. But that proves repressive, so he and a couple of friends leave to enact a money-making scheme. When that fails, the old man finds himself alone and destitute on the rough streets of Sofia where his despairing eyes witness the further ruination of his homeland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Fly by Rossinant
Overview: A story about Bulgarian musicians, making a tour of Europe. In the morning they had a matinée in Graz and at nigh they are supposed to have a gala in Vienna. Fly by Rossinant is a musical incorporating opera and silent movies elements.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2007-02-22
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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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Migration of the Belted Bonito
Overview: The film tells the story of two neighbors in a small Bulgarian village and their two sons. Their families live poorly. The ways they earn their daily bread are quite unusual. The film gives a humorous, yet accurate diagnosis of present-day Bulgaria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Romantic Story
Overview: The story of a passionate love
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-03-18
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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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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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Only You, My Heart
Overview: The title of the film is taken from the popular Bulgarian song. This is a film about the life of a common Bulgarian worker. The action focuses on his family, his relatives, and his friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1987-02-16
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The Camp
Overview: In this earnest movie from Bulgaria, the minds of the young people attending a Young Pioneer (communist youth) camp in the 1950s are shown to be easily molded into a conformist vein. Later, at a "voluntary labor" camp in the 1960s, the final touches are put on their education as proper young communists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1990-03-18
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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 Time Is Ours
Overview: Writer Martin Sestrimsky and Secret Service agent Boyan Tilev got to know each other on the day when Martin gave Tilev a special dossier of grave consequences, which the writer has tried to surmount. With the ousting from power of Todor Zhivkov’s totalitarian regime, their relations take a new turn, when Tilev’s stepdaughter, Nevena, a mysterious young woman of double identity steps in. While Tilev is making a fortune from illicit deals, Sestrimsky, encouraged by Nevena, is doing his best to reconcile to his past. The truth of the two men’s shared past will come to light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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Elle
Overview: The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-12
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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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My Father, the Painter
Overview: A former history teacher, currently a house painter is broke before the New Year. Faith meets him with the rich man, who wants his living room to be painted by 4 o'clock for a hefty pay. The father and his six children begin the heavy task with a song. When all is done, the rich man calls that he is going to pay the house painter on the 2nd of January. The father decides to celebrate New Year no matter what.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-02-22
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Vatanen's Hare
Overview: A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but the hare runs off deeper into the forest, taking him on adventure of self-discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-27
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Golyamata lyubov na D. Lukov
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-08-25
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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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Малки разговори
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2007-02-21
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Razvodi, razvodi...
Overview: Razvodi, razvodi... is a 1989 Bulgarian anthology comedy film that delves into the complexities of marital relationships through a series of five short stories, all centered around the theme of divorce. Each segment offers a unique perspective on the emotional and societal facets of separation, blending satire with poignant human experiences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-11-05
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Nemirnata ptitza lyubov
Overview: A girl walks out as if of Pandora's Box to foretell the drama humankind is to face, paying for all sins, we have been piling up through the ages. A number of directors being parodied take turns to show their take on this drama and relate it to modern life. Getting tangled up in the opposition between the eternal and transient, the base and the sublime, it all turns into a cocktail of an absurd and profound poignancy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-05
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