Evstati Stratev
Also Known As: Евстати Стратев, Yevstati Stratev, Yevstrati Stratev
Biography: Evstati Dimitrov Stratev was born on February 11, 1934 in Shumen, Bulgaria. He is the son of another Bulgarian famous actor - Dimitar Stratev. Evstati Stratev graduated in "acting" at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art in 1959. Besides his roles in the Drama Theaters, he was a very popular Bulgarian cinema actor. He had taken participation in forty five Bulgarian movies and TV films. He died on November 22, 1984 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shumen, Bulgaria
Adult: No
Birthday: February 11, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 22, 1984
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Known For:
The Wave Runner
Overview: A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Waverunner”…
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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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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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 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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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 Peasant on a Bicycle
Overview: Born in a small village, Yordan has to live and work in the nearby town. Only on the weekends can he return to his native village. He travels by a bike and observes the nature and the animals around him with overt sadness. In the village arrives a young pharmacist and she rents his house. Soon both of them fall in love. In order to be near her, Yordan tries to persuade his colleagues to move one of the workshops from the plant to the village. But they are all used to living in the town now and decline his offer. Yordan realizes that he cannot demand impossible things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Whale
Overview: A fishing boat comes back to the port. Fishermen are crestfallen, as they have caught only one very little fish. To save face, they fib they have 300 kilo of mackerel on board the boat. In their will to report a success, the port administration decides to pad out the weight. So, the very little fish is grossly exaggerated into tons of belted bonito, then into dolphin and ultimately, into a whale. Which results in celebrations, honors and awards... There, naturally, is no any whale. Instead of brilliant display of an unprecedented success, the white collars make a brilliant display of their unparalleled foolishness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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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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Favourite 13
Overview: The main heroes are twin brothers. The first is responsible young fellow and excellent footballer. The second one is an undependable gambler. The police are after him. A pretty girl stands in between them. She has profoundly fallen for the footballer. By coincidence, the twins change places, which result in a formidable mess and funny situations. Ultimately, all the misunderstandings are settled and the couple re-joins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1958-12-15
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A Day of Filming
Overview: Shooting of a picture: to those, familiar with only from the screen, it is a entertainment. So, in a quiet Sofia street, a shooting crew starts their work. Bypassing begin to throng, curious people are looking out of the windows of the surrounding buildings. A scene is being shot of s short dialogue between the protagonists. It goes wrong all the time and is never complete. The mess gets beyond the comical, the true relations between the members of grew show and they do not look that excellent. At long last, the final scene is shot and the street is quiet again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1969-04-09
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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 Boy Turns Man
Overview: The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they going to be, and what is more important, how are they going to live? In the whirlpool of meetings with different people and mainly with three women, the filmmakers are trying to see the future of their main character. His schoolmate Mariana wants to lead him into family life. The pop singer Neli is the very incarnation of adventurism. However, he is most deeply touched by the salesgirl in the near-by coffee shop Tintyava. This is a wordless affair in which each glance exchanged betrays the piercing excitement of impossible love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-05-18
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The Swedish Kings
Overview: The construction worker Spas decides to go on a holiday at a luxurious seaside resort where he can live "like the Swedish kings". He gets himself in strange and embarrassing situations, only to soon realize that real happiness is not in this coveted gilded world but among his work brigade buddies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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Karambol
Overview: In a large provincial town, two friends Nasko and Raycho meet Emil, a conductor in the opera, who introduces them to Ana, an opera singer. Nasko and Ana fall in love. Nasko has to write a story for the newspaper about the irregular enrollment in college of Aneliya, the daughter of the local bigwig. A well-known director arrives from the capital for an opera premiere and makes advances to Ana. Aneliya comes to demand an explanation in Nasko's home. Ana finds her there and decides to take her revenge on him. She becomes intimate with the director. The story about the Aneliya case is ready, but as desk editor is drunk, Nasko fakes his OK signature. He sham is discovered. The relationships between the erstwhile friends are marred by insincerity, falsehood, tacit intrigues. Nasko plucks up courage to tell his friends the truth. In this way, he wins back Ana's love and he boy's trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1966-10-17
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Don't Go Away!
Overview: The charming young man Ran is a director in a school in his hometown. His classmate Mariana is his wife. At the first glance, things are like, as they ought to be. In the world of untold words and timid gestures something important is missing - the understanding. He cannot succumb to the routine, hypocrisy and egoism. Ran sees every moment of his everyday life as a part of everlasting human strive for beauty and perfection, which brings him many troubles and causes conflicts with his colleagues and his friends. The intrigues and betrayal of a part of his colleagues during the visitation of a school inspector make him lose his patience. On a public place, he slaps the inspector who destroys the human dignity of the others. There is a court against Ran. He must leave the school. He leaves his wife Mariana who does not understand him. These misfortunes do not stop his search for real values, real work, real love, in another place, another town, another school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-01-30
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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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Armando
Overview: Yanko, a young partisan, arrives in a small coastal town. He has to carry out a mission and return to his unit immediately. However, he runs into Armando, a former schoolmate. The guitarist Armando is genuinely overjoyed. He throws back a glass or two, plies his friend with questions, and indulges in memories. Yanko's heart is torn between conflicting emotions: Should he kill Armando and thus avoid the risk of detection? On the other hand, should he take a chance and spare his onetime friend? In a moment of lucidity, Armando realizes the tight spot that he is in. He offers the partisan his own, better clothes and wishes him god luck. Just when Armando is at his happiest, the police, who have mistaken him for the outlaw they want, shoot him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1969-04-25
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Between the Rails
Overview: The horrors of war seen through the eyes of a sensitive twelve-year-old girl who loses everyone she loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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The Last Bachelor
Overview: The middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely unacceptable in a cramped socialist society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-08-15
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A Difficult Love
Overview: In a small town, two married people fall in love. What difficulties they will face and how to cope with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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The Dragon
Overview: There is a dragon, which threatens the life of the shacked village. The attempts of lumberjacks, shepherds and hunters to get rid of the menace are without success. Their battle with the imaginary mythical monster makes them realize that their real enemies are the master Kolota and his servants. The dragon is beaten not physically but spiritually.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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Eternal Times
Overview: During the socialist regime in Bulgaria, the migration from villages to bigger towns brings a lot of problems and sadness to some of the party activists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-02-07
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The Quiet Fugitive
Overview: Gosho Kalimanski, a clerk living the big city, finds difficulties to stand the endless noise around him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-06-12
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