Rangel Vulchanov
Also Known As: Рангел Вълчанов, Rangel Valchanov, Rangel Valtchanov, Rangel Vultchanov, Rangel Vultshanov, Rangel Valčanov, Рангел Вылчанов
Biography: Rangel Petrov Valchanov was a Bulgarian cinema actor and director. He finished theater directing at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1953. He started working as an assistant director and subsequently as a director.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Krivina, Bulgaria
Birthday: October 12, 1928
Deathday: September 30, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes
Overview: A middle-aged Bulgarian is watching the change of the guard in front of the Buckingham Palace. For no apparent reason, while looking, in his mind he gets back to his childhood in the little Bulgarian village, he grew up in. Different rites, different traditions and still he finds something in common. He recalls the people he knew, he feared or admired. He ponders over that life of no brilliance, where people plough, harvest, marry and die, celebrate or grieve. Miracle are also worked, conceived in a unlimited child's imagination. It is the child's perception of the world that helps us to give a meaning to the major questions of human existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-05-06
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The Sun and the Shadow
Overview: The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Crayfish
Overview: Two best friends get involved into the domination games of two mafia bosses in post-communist Bulgaria. Clutching like crayfish to the baits of everyday life, they determine their fates: without the other one knowing, they are manipulated to take seemingly harmless tasks. Parallel to the criminal line in the story, our attention is drawn toward the inner problems of the characters, toward the links that exist between everything and everyone. The two friends try fruitlessly to establish a dialogue. A dialogue about relationships, about death, about responsibilities, about the essence…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-30
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Jesse James vs. Lokum Shekerov
Overview: American filmmakers associated with the mafia are concerned about the great success of Bulgarian films around the world. They decided to send a big spy, Jesse James, to Bulgaria. His task is to blow up the film studios. But the Bulgarian inspector Lokum Shekerov is at his post.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1966-04-22
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Stolen Eyes
Overview: This is a story of strange, impossible, inexplicable love between a Muslim Turk woman and a non-Muslim Bulgarian man. Ivan (the Bulgarian) is a pure and romantic young fellow, who gets caught up in the so-called "regeneration process" (when ethnic Turks' names were forcibly changed to Bulgarian ones). He is responsible for the official seals, which is required to issue the new identity documents after the forced name changes. The schoolteacher Ayten tries to steal the seals, thinking that this way she can slow down the ethnic genocide. Their unexpected and unusual meeting brings these two characters together and makes them fell close, forcing Ivan to take a fateful decision -he must either "rename" Ayten, or face the consequences if he does not.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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Alarm
Overview: The action takes place in the last years of the Second World War, immediately before the socialist revolution in Bulgaria. It centers on the life of the middle-class family of Lazarov, which is torn by the sharp political contradictions taking place against the background of the popular struggle against fascism. The father Vitan goes through terrible mental traumas, which are the price, he has to pay for his illusions that in such clashes one can remain neutral and free from politics. The partisans execute the son Boris - a fascist officer, a sadist and a murderer. The daughter Lily is forced to search for her place in the conflict between the representatives of two hostile worlds - that of fascist brother and her husband - a communist and a revolutionary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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Two Victories
Overview: The weaknesses and shortcomings in the work of some leaders in the years of the building of socialism are ridiculed.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1956-12-31
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Morning Over the Motherland
Overview: The university student Bobchev joins a youth brigade. The commander's council entrust Bobchev with a literacy course for members of the brigade. Velizarov and Monkata arrive in the camp to carry out sabotage. They place explosives on the dam, and attempt to win Bobchev over by means of intrigue. There is a storm: the camp is put on the alert. Everyone joins the rescue work at the dam. After a long struggle with Velizarov, Bobchev cuts the burning fuse of the explosive. The dam does not yield to the pressure of the flood. Everymen sing in Jubilation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1951-10-22
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Aesop
Overview: This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1970-06-28
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People of Dimitrovgrad
Overview: The construction of the first socialist town in Bulgaria - Dimitrovgrad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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Екипажът на «Надежда»
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1956-11-03
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The Incredible Story
Overview: What happens when a distracted newspaper editor-in-chief initials a "yes" to print a sharply critical feuilleton and a "no" to the feuilleton author's application for leave instead of the other? Well, an incredibly funny mess, which only the screenwriter Radoy Ralin and the director Vladimir Yanchev can mix. Of course, supported by the whole constellation of comedians that Bulgaria had in the early 60's. The commotion occurs when dozens of big and small bosses and directors from all over the country recognize themselves in Karaivanov, the fictional hero of the feuilleton. They all run to the editorial office to demand refutation and punishment of the author. Just watch as they bury themselves in an avalanche...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1964-12-21
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Item One
Overview: A quite line in the capital city. A little girl, Veseto, slips out of home unnoticed, attracted by the voices of children playing in the yard. when the kids get tired of playing hide-and-seek, they scatter and Veseto sets out in a long stroll across the city, full of exciting adventures. She talks to a chimney sweep, stops to look at some land surveyors at work, watches an interesting football game at the stadium, enjoys herself at the fair, extemporizes as an actress and has a trying experience on a building site. All the people in the neighborhood start looking for the lost child. In the evening, Veseto reappears. She is back to the arms of her mother, while the people in the neighborhood prove by deeds their human solidarity, their love for children and their resolve to struggle for peace, a must for children's future all over the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1956-11-26
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Rhapsody in White
Overview: This is a film about the fight against the terrible invincible enemy - the banality of life. Chekhovian provincial hopelessness will creep in, broken by sharp turns of Chaplin-esque humor. A bow to silent cinema and Chekhov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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