Pavel Popandov
Also Known As: Павел Поппандов, Pavel Popandov
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: София, България
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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One Elevator Apart
Overview: Two young policemen-in-training are hired by their landlord to find out who stole her winning lottery ticket.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2021-08-15
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A Nameless Band
Overview: Velko, Filip, Pavel and Gosho have different professions but are connected by the love they have for music. They rehearse all year to make it big on the sea resorts in the summer. The head of the cultural center where they play is willing to give them the musical equipment if they replace their singer Maria (Filip's girlfriend) with the attractive but untalented Reni. This is the first, but not the last compromise they have to make on the way to the dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-01-04
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The Thirteenth Bride of the Prince
Overview: A silly prince wants to marry a beautiful peasant girl. His guards kidnap her, but the girl escapes and returns to her beloved. Meanwhile, a UFO lands in the kingdom and the aliens witness nuisances, court intrigues, and lies. They are not allowed to meddle in other people's affairs, but they still influence the happy ending.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1987-02-05
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Adio, Rio
Overview: Stoev, a talented architect is working in Rio de Janeiro. All along the design stages, Stoev's understanding has been that he would be going together with his assistant architect. However, the company chief secretly decides to change the terms and go instead of the assistant, threatening Stoev to cancel the whole deal if he doesn't comply. Stoev is left with the dilemma to betray a colleague and friend, or to miss the greatest opportunity in his career. When Stoev is about to choose the former, a mysterious dead body appears in his life.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-04-10
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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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The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner
Overview: The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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Marital Jokes
Overview: Six stories about the modern Bulgarian family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-09-04
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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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A Ray of Sunshine
Overview: Sashko and Tanya are two lovers who want to go on a holiday at the seaside. In order to earn money, Sasho starts working in a brigade digging a well in the yard of Chief Krumov's villa. The workers accidentally discover the remains of human skeletons, a tin ring and several buttons, most likely belonging to participants in the September Uprising of 1923. To avoid complications, everyone decides to keep quiet. However, Sashko decides to break his silence and tell the truth, for which he pays with his life.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-02-19
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Manly Times
Overview: There were times when stealing girls in these lands has been a worthy vocation, was a habit and a sort of custom in Bulgaria. Only the strongest and most experienced men took the profession up. A young and brave Bulgarian highlander was given the job to bring, no matter how, a certain beautiful girl to be married to somebody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-04-29
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Avalanche
Overview: A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ in tempers, in problems and notions of honor and dignity. Already up in the mountain, they are expected to pull themselves together to the full, in order to succumb to the will of the leader and forget about the tensions, accumulated among the members of the team. The team of young mountaineers is scaling a difficult summit, but mid-way they are buried by an avalanche. Caught in the deadly vortex, each of the characters relieves the cherished moments of his or her life. Each character illustrates a separate theme. Nayden has to cope with the problems of leadership. Nikifor is his rival, who is destined to be the perennial number two. The Man ho Is Sensitive to Cold is preoccupied with the subject of friendship. Matters that are typically artist absorb the Poet, The Sculptor and the Cameraman.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-02-15
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A Real Man
Overview: Among his friends, Sasho is famous for "killing a wolf". Milka, a good-hearted girl falls in love with the heroic boy. They get married and have a baby girl. In order for Sasho to continue his architecture studies, Milka starts to work in a factory. Sasho gives up his studies and he gets involved with a gang of swindlers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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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
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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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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Rootless Tree
Overview: Having remained alone in his village house, old Gatyo must move in with his son and daughter-in-law in their flat in the city. They receive him with great understanding and sympathy but cannot find the key to his heart. Torn out of his natural environment and left bewilderingly rootless, this good man cannot adapt himself to the urban way of life. He does not like the mayonnaise he is offered, does not know how to use the lift. The people hurrying in the streets seem to him indifferent, and some even sly and deceitful. He sees the city as a place full of hostile people and inanimate objects. He badly misses the warm human touch of his village. Death is the only possible solution to the tragic conflict of this peasant, crucified between the archaic and the modern, and unable to adapt to the urban lifestyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-08-06
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Equilibrium
Overview: A social and psychological study of contemporary problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Dance of the Samodivi
Overview: In a small provincial town, an young local artist exhibits his works. One of the paintings, depicting a fairy dance of naked women, provoke the people which discover similarities with a certain lady from the neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-08-28
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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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The Double
Overview: Denev is a specialist in his area. and has no time to write his dissertation. His cousin Ivan offers his help to switch places wich leeds to catostrophe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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Jigsaw Puzzle
Overview: We are all a little pieces of the great JIGSAW PUZZLE. And there is only one that fits to other... we look for it and find the same...we try to put it, but... it is the same but not the right one... there left an empty space. Can we rewrite our destiny? Can we overcome the last barrier... death?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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Cry for Help
Overview: 20-year-old Georgi was adopted as a child. The family falls apart though and he ends up in a youth detention center. When released, he comes to face people's selfishness and disregard, He begins to steal things. The investigator working on his case talks to his adopted parents, his girlfriend and friends. Hiding from the police, Georgi ends up in a small town at the Black sea coast. He falls in love with his friend's sister Yana. Yet again, he finds no sympathy and understanding. He steals again. The investigator wants to help him but Georgi has given up all hope. He wants to commit suicide. Yana is the last spark of hope to bring him back to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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The Mandolin
Overview: Gallows is being raised in a prison yard. A moment before the execution the Girl brings a document of the young communist's temporary pardon. The chief of the prison, the Major, has a mandolin collection. He offers a fistfight to the young communist. The young man hits him. The Major and the young communist start playing the mandolins together. Girl is allowed to meet the young communist. The boy begins to play. The melody brings to the Major pleasant memories. He fought in the Spanish civil war, but after the defeat, he turned back on his beliefs. The Major receives a telegram that he needs to send the young communist to another prison. Death awaits him there. In is rage the Major breaks the mandolins. He orders the young communist to be taken out to work. The young man runs off. The Major shoots him himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Infernal Weapon
Overview: A knight is tasked with finding a mystical weapon.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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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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Surge of Tenderness
Overview: The end of World War II. The Bulgarian army is fighting the German one. Private Peycho Peychev known as Peychina is also at the frontier - a sensitive and timid person forced to witness the horrors of the war. His commanding officer keeps saying that at the end of a war the world is swept by a 'surge of tenderness'. After a serious injury, Peychina goes back to his birth place. The new ruling powers in the village try to win him over to their side but what he is really good at is holding the chisel, not the gun. He carves an image of Elena, a woman that he falls in love with. Yet, the surge of tenderness in the world seems to be canceled. Peychina comes to be responsible for the death of an anarchist and helps capture his commanding officer, who fights against the new rule. When the mayor hands him a gun again, he refuses to take it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-09-19
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Amigo Ernesto
Overview: This film was commissioned by the International Children's Assembly, 1985. Ernesto is a boy from Nicaragua. In his homeland, a Bulgarian doctor works, who is friends with Ernesto. The boy sings well. He is invited to visit Bulgaria during the children's assembly. Along the way, he experiences a number of twists and turns. His Bulgarian friends are looking for him all over Bulgaria. Ernesto and his friends meet at the closing of the assembly. They experience unforgettable hours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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Rounds
Overview: One night – seemingly just like any other. Two police officers find the body of the well-known drug addict Lazar near the railroad tracks in Sofia. This is how the night of 9 November, 2019 begins – 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the regime change in Bulgaria. Three teams of police officers are patrolling the streets of Sofia, doing their job as they believe is right, while facing the challenges posed by contemporary Bulgarian reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Ashes Over Sun
Overview: Dr. Stefanov is in the middle of a huge media scandal due to a patient's death. Antonia is a young journalist who bravely embarks on a journey to uncover what truly happened.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2020-09-29
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Yesterday
Overview: The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-01-25
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Don't Close Your Eyes
Overview: The film follows the lives of Peter and Paul: two characters in different eras - Peter in the 1980s and Paul nowdays. Peter looses his sister in an accident and is banished from his home. In the present time Paul's sister has cancer and is fighting for her life. The two story lines intertwine and find a way trough God's providence to serve each other for good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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