Kosta Tsonev
Also Known As: Коста Цонев, Kosta Conev
Biography: Kosta Tsonev (10 June 1929 – 25 January 2012) was a celebrated Bulgarian actor whose prolific career spanned theatre, film, and television. Born in Sofia, he graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, laying the foundation for a remarkable journey in the performing arts.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
Adult: No
Birthday: June 10, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 25, 2012
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Be Happy, Ani!
Overview: Ani, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend Boyan, a worker at a large construction site. The letter contains a single word "yes". Boyan starts preparing for a wedding. The Soviet pilot Andrey will soon return home after several years spent working with his Bulgarian colleagues. They arrange a farewell tour of Bulgaria for him on which Ani has to drive him. Because of mistaken jealousy, Boyan tears up his sweetheart's letter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1963-01-07
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Crystals
Overview: Natural minerals are found all over the world. They represent the wealth of the country they come from. This film conveys the beauty of minerals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1982-04-24
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Porwanie
Overview: A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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The Wolf Pack
Overview: The year is 1948 and a counter-revolutionary gang is active in the Pirin region. A State Security officer managed to infiltrate the gang. He becomes "one of their own", but isn't in a rush to complete his task.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Sky for All
Overview: Anton is a former military pilot. Soon after his transition to civil aviation his wife leaves him. Despite his 45 years, he takes the change hard, the grief of his former job never leaves him. Anton and his crew are all people with interesting fates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1987-05-18
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Second Death of Gregor Z
Overview: A Swiss-German-Yugoslavian production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Overview: The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-01-03
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The Swimming Pool
Overview: Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-08-29
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On the Eve
Overview: Elena Nikolaevna Stakhova, a girl from a noble family, is full of lofty ideals. Seeking “active good” and heroism and not finding the use of her powers in her environment, she falls in love with the Bulgarian student Insarov, a poor commoner democrat. Elena completely devotes herself to her chosen one and follows him along his difficult path. After the wedding, the young people decide to leave for Bulgaria, where the struggle for freedom has been going on for 400 years. But, never having reached his homeland, Insarov dies...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-10-26
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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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Yuliya Vrevskaya
Overview: The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An early widowed baroness, having left Petersburg, and having invested all her money in organizing a volunteer sanitary detachment, she becomes a sister of mercy on the front of the Bulgarian war with the Ottoman Empire of 1878.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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Requiem for a Slut
Overview: The intelligence officer Emil Boev is tracking a group of drug addicts, who were recruited by a foreign intelligence office. Among them is Boyan, the son of Emil's dead comrade. He should help the boy. He includes Boyan in the counterintelligence action plan. The faith of the young people is sealed - they should be eliminated as unwanted witnesses. They are given hot doses. Boev and Boyan discover the plot, but it is too late for some of the people. The deadly needle gets in the hand of the girl that Boyan loves. The foreign resident is captured. There is hardly anyone at the grave of the girl. Only Boev and Boyan come and listen the requiem.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-09-04
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There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather
Overview: A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent undercover to a big Western European company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1971-03-05
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Mr. Nobody
Overview: A ravishing double agent Emil leaves for a large Western city where he joins the staff of a spy group operating against Bulgaria. Here he meets the elderly Mladenov. With his help, Emil gets an editorial job in a Bulgarian-language magazine. Dimov heads the spy center. Kralev is his deputy. Kralev wants to become a chief and tries to eliminate those who stand in his way. Emil is among them. Lida, Mladenov's daughter has defected from Bulgaria. Disillusioned, she asks Emil to help her to return. He helps her to hide in a small provincial town. Kralev forces him to give away the address. Emil goes to Lida's hotel, but before he arrives here, Kralev blocks his way. Emil makes short work of him. Together with Lida, they hire a speedboat, which rushes them to a Bulgarian ship.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Echelons of Death
Overview: A story about the struggle to save Bulgarian Jews during World War II
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1986-04-28
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Necessary Sinner
Overview: A lawyer must decide whether to help a young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Salvation
Overview: Bulgarian prisoners of war escape from the Germans in the town of Ohrid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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Liberty or Death
Overview: In а short but heroic campaign, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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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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Wrathful Journey
Overview: Chavdar gets a degree in geology. He wishes to pursue a scientific carrier, but his father decides that his son should practice his profession in a rich of mineral Rhodopa Mountain. Chavdar meets geologists and locals who love their profession and the region. Here he finds true love with Vanya, a girl born and raised in the mountain. She is a part time geologist student and dreams of finding new ore sources. Chavdar has to leave, and he bids farewell to his friends, certain that one day he will come back to continue his search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1971-04-23
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Poor Street
Overview: The students Yoshkata and Petar share rooms and wartime privations in a poor man's street. Over a glass of vine, Yoshkata often talks about the stage life of genuine beauty. The student is unaware of the passion with which Vaska, the barmaid at the local pub, burns for him. Petar is a member of an antifascist combat unit. The pupil Katya loves him. Petar carries out a sabotage action and comes home wounded. Yoshkata manages to deceive the Germans who rush into their flat that they have been drinking and playing cards throughout the evening. He saves his friend. However, the secret agent notices the doctor's visits. When the police arrive to arrest Petar, Yoshkata tries to resist them and the agent shoots him dead. Petar goes underground. On the day of the liberation, all the residents of the poor man's street celebrate, and Katya and Petar happily reunited. Vaska is there, too, a baby in her arms, the fruit of her love with Yoshkata...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1960-09-05
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The Hit
Overview: The action takes part from August 26 to September 9,1944 - the last days of the fascist regime in Bulgaria. At that time, following a decision made by the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, all-out preparations for an uprising are under way. The central characters are real historical figures representing two antagonistic camps. The film chronicles a series of dramatic events: secret underground meetings, actions of the combat groups and the partisans, strikes and mass rallies, the last attempts of the regime to hold on to power. The film recreates the atmosphere on the eve of the uprising, which culminated in the main thrust: the seizure of the Defense Ministry in Sofia on the night before September 9.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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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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Pauper's Joy
Overview: Anthology film based on six short stories by writer Elin Pelin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1958-07-28
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Typhoons with Gentle Names
Overview: The Bulgarian intelligence officer Emil Boev is residing in Bern, close to Bulgarian political emigrant Goranov. The Swiss and German women Rosemary and Flora are interested in him. Goranov is killed. Boev searches his apartment and finds few fake diamonds and the list of the spies in Bulgaria. Boev and the boss of a foreign intelligence service Benton are stuck in a bunker together. At the decisive moment, Flora appears and Boev manages to get away with the list of the spies. Boev is on the way to Bulgaria.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-07-23
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The Troop Leader
Overview: Members of a partisan underground unit struggle during the anti-fascist Bulgarian Resistance of World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1959-08-31
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Forest People
Overview: 1929. The owners of a roadside hotel-a man and a woman-kill the merchant. To solve the murder, the investigator sends his undercover agent to the hotel. A passionate love begins between the agent and the woman. She confessed to her lover about the murder. The killer managed to escape, and the woman was sent to prison.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-12-12
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There Is No Death
Overview: The new supervisor Vasil arrives at the construction site of a dam. Vasil has problems with his men, who mistrust him and reluctantly submit to his perfectionism. He becomes involved with the refreshment bar attendant Lilyana. Vasil, who always wanted children, cannot abandon his childless wife and breaks with Lilyana. When four workers are buried in a tunnel landslide, Vasil makes his way to them and manages to drag them all out, except for Zlatan, a spiteful egocentric, whose legs are caught under a fallen prop. Zlatan begs Vasil to save him, even if it means cutting of his legs. To release the miner's legs Vasil cuts the prop, which is also supporting the roof of the tunnel. Zlatan is rescued. However, Vasil is killed. Since then, the workers say his steps can be heard bellow the dam wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1963-10-21
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The Night of 13th
Overview: Todor Primov is an officer of the royal army who changes sides and goes over to the partisans. After the war, he graduates in engineering and is appointed manager of several construction projects. His car crashes on the eve of March 13. After his recovery, Primov resumes his work. Yet, secret information starts leaking from the projects and some serious accidents occur. Andrey, who befriended Todor Primov back in the partisan unit, goes to investigate the causes. He knows that Todor was colored-blind while this engineer distinguished colors. Andrey manages to get at the truth: Parvan Primov, Todor's twin brother, has made the car crash. On that night he killed his brother and took his place...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1961-06-05
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The Golden Tooth
Overview: Captain Lipovanski is badly wounded during World War II. The Germans take him prisoner. After the end of the war, he is set free in a foreign country. He has been deceived that he was sentenced to death as a deserter and that his pregnant wife had died in a Bulgarian concentration camp. He trains for subversive activities against his own country. He is given the codename 'Golden Tooth'. Eager for revenge, he arrives in Bulgaria. There he learns that an agent provocateur has killed his wife, that his child is safe and has been raised in a nursery, and that he himself is respected as a hero. Golden Tooth sets out to eliminate his accomplices. With a file containing valuable documents, the traitors prepare their escape abroad. The spies are caught at the border. Golden Tooth kills the last of the traitors and dies driving his lorry into a precipice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1962-12-03
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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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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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Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing
Overview: Part one of this two-part epic follows the life and deeds of Boris I – a strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Overview: Knyaz Boris I reached the most important spiritual insight - the country needed a single language and script. It accepts students of Cyril and Methodius, creating Ohrid and Preslav Literary School. What other nations took centuries, for bulgarians takes place only about 20 years after their baptizing - introduced a Slavonic Alphabet.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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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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Chicho Krastnik
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Genres: Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-05-02
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On a Quiet Evening
Overview: Chased by the military police force, the partisans Boyka and Anton take refuge in a cave. A grenade explosion dislodges the rock, which seals off the passage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1960-03-28
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Slyapa sabota
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-08-29
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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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