Ivan Andonov
Also Known As: Иван Андонов
Biography: From Wikipedia Ivan Andonov (3 May 1934 – 29 December 2011) was a Bulgarian film director and actor. He directed more than thirty films.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Birthday: May 03, 1934
Deathday: December 29, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Eolomea
Overview: Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist in charge, Maria Scholl, sees no other solution than ordering a total flight stop to this mysterious sector of space. Her colleague, Prof. Tal seems to be suspicious since he knows things before they are even released. A forbidden look into his personal file brings to light that Tal was part of the Eolomea project that never found approval of the commission in charge.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-21
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Adventure at Midnight
Overview: Abundant supplies of imported vaccine prove ineffective against an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in several population centers. Warehouse manager Rashkov has been found dead. Major Zahov has to investigate the case.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Detour
Overview: On the road one day two people meet again after seventeen years. They'd had a brief, burning affair seventeen years earlier, in their idealistic youth. That had been just after the war, the time of great enthusiasms and faith in the future. Wishing to dedicate themselves to the new society they had chosen to renounced personal happiness, considering their love as an impermissible sidetrack from the requirements of the time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Windows of Time
Overview: Five social misfits undergo cryogenic suspension. When they awake in the far distant future, they find a world devastated by nuclear war. Yet they discover that each of them has some personal involvement - and responsibility - for the series of the events that ended in the destruction of the world they knew.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-10-22
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Men on a Business Trip
Overview: Three separate novels are dealing with the never-ending problem of men's infidelity. How should women behave when men take a fancy to them? The picture ends in funny, sometimes comical, yet wise answer
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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On the Small Island
Overview: In the 1920s several dozen political prisoners are exiled on a small island in the Black Sea awaiting sentencing. The old sea wolf and adventurer Kostadin (nicknamed Costa Rica) is planning an escape together with а carpenter named Zheko, an idealistic student and a doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1958-05-04
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The Inspector and the Night
Overview: A classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1963-12-16
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The Falcons
Overview: A young man with an interest in ornithology arrives to study the work of falcons and their human trainers. The head falconer is a cold and heartless man who obstinately demands perfection from everyone around him. His work is his life, and he doesn't care if his girlfriend makes love to other men. The young man observes all he can before leaving behind the potentially inhuman situation for brighter horizons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-06-07
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A Middle Aged Patsy
Overview: The foreign spy Thomas arrives in Sofia. In order to get his hands on some documents, he decides to use the young man Boyan as his cover. The action takes place at the "Orient Express". A young foreigner-drug addict, the train attendant and the secretary conduct the mission. The train attendant and the drug addict are killed. Boyan is a major suspect. However, Thomas is a very naive man. The Bulgarian counterintelligence discovers the plot.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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On the Sidewalk
Overview: The story of an indecisive young doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Ivan Kondarev
Overview: The film shows Bulgaria after the First World War - different destinies, different turns on both sides of the political barricade. A life full of contradictions and passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-01-11
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The Trial
Overview: Bistra and Evgeny, first year university students, are in love and inseparable, but slowly with time Bistra becomes infatuated with Evgeny's dad, as she sees him as the embodiment of what her dream lover would be. Shocked and distressed at this revelation, Evgeny hits a pedestrian with his car. Bistra's the only one who can help him in court if she's willing to admit what they talked about before the crash.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1968-12-06
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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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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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Years for Love
Overview: Dr Ganevski leaves his wife Maria and his grown-up children Rositza and Chavdar for Dr Troyanovska, who has been widowed by the war. Her son, Angel, a school dropout, is in love with Rositza. Rositza renounces her father. Up to a point, Chavdar can understand Ganevski's decision. Hoping to live in affluence, the boy moves in with his father's new family. Dr Ganevski cannot bring himself to visit his daughter who is ill with the pneumonia. On his birthday, which he celebrates at his father's, Chavdar feels terribly lonely and leaves him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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Poem
Overview: The action in the film takes place in a remote Bulgarian village. A certain conflict takes place between the new-coming young people and the old villages because of the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1986-08-18
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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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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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