Paraskeva Djukelova
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Panagyurishte, Bulgaria
Adult: No
Birthday: November 14, 1970
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Female
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The Abandoned
Overview: Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-11
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Eyes of Crystal
Overview: While hunting a cultured and vicious psychopath, detective Amaldi faces the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his past.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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Time for Women
Overview: In order to win the big prize in a popular TV quiz, the main characters of the film - four life-loving women in search of a nontraditional way to overcome the stifling confines of their existence, have to perform a striptease in front of the cameras in their home town. They experience various adventures and their families are subjected to serious challenges. Provincial society is scandalized and their friendships tested. The four women make great sacrifices to reach the stage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Blessed
Overview: Based on the book: "Bobby The Blessed and the other American" (2015) by Emil Andreev. Pure love, priceless medicine and a accidental meeting with the future president of the USA - John Kennedy change the life of a man. Bombardment in Sofia during 1944 make him lose his mind, but he saves his innocent soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2020-09-30
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Emigrants
Overview: Three friends, Maro, Shpera and Yuri are unemployed and hardly make ends meet. They have complicated and hysterical relationships with the people closest to them. They seem to have emigrated from their families and their country. Provoked by a mysterious telephone call, they set out on a journey, filled with the hope to change their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2002-10-21
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July
Overview: Three lonely women meet in Krapetz, a village on the Black Sea coast, trying to escape the arrogance and the triteness of "modern" post-communist society. The idyll continues for several days, but is soon destroyed. Crime, violence and corruption reach the three women even in this far, deserted place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2012-06-01
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To Bury a Dragon
Overview: In a small Bulgarian town an aging homophobic wood-carver receives a tragic news which awakens his buried shame and anger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence
Overview: A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to the communist ideals she became an avid critic of the regime and brought upon herself the wrath of its censorship. As a result four of her nine films were shelved and released to the public only after the fall of the regime in 1989, and Binka Zhelyazkova became known as the bad girl of Bulgarian cinema. A provocative portrait that reveals the pressures and complexities that arise when art is made under totalitarianism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Judgement
Overview: This is the story of Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area, near to the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek Border. Mityo had lost everything that has mattered to him – his wife, his work, the confidence of his son, Vasko. In order to get him back, Mityo has to find forgiveness and pay for his sin, done 25 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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I Am David
Overview: A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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Locusts: The 8th Plague
Overview: A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-12
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Canary Season
Overview: It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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Gundi: Legend of Love
Overview: The great Bulgarian football player Georgi Asparuhov and his greatest love - his wife Lita go through a number of trials of life, football and the political system.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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Heights
Overview: One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would liberate the country from the Ottoman occupation. Directed by Victor Bojinov and adapted by Neli Dimitrova, the story follows Gicho a young man in a revolutionary group led by Dimitar Obshti, a real-life revolutionary fighting against the Turks. After a successful train robbery Obshti entrust Gicho with a special mission: to deliver a letter to Vasil Levski, the country's most famous freedom fighter, now considered hero and dubbed The Apostle of Freedom.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Parched
Overview: Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future; he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the live of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-years sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the tree of them are smiling and happy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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The Game Bag
Overview: In late summer 1991, three Italians reach a hunting reserve in Croatia with a station wagon. They go to deer, but, unaware of what's in store for months, they do not decipher the enigmatic signs that surround them. One of the three is suddendly wounded in the knee by a bullet of unknown provenance, and they end up in a hotel targeted by snipers night and day.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-03-14
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The Naked Truth About Zhiguli Band
Overview: The members of a music band that separated 30 years ago are forced to reunite.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2021-04-16
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Wingless
Overview: The movie is inspired by the true life story of Bulgarian paralympic ‘Long jump’ triple world champion Mihail Hristov. The film follows Mihail from the moment he loses both his arms in an electric current incident and makes the life-changing decision of becoming a professional athlete as he goes through the catharsis of deciding to start a new life without arms. He goes through a number of difficulties, both on the sports field and in his personal relationships with his parents, his coach, the girl he falls in love with but most of all, the difficulty of accepting what has happened to him. The script traces Mihail's difficult fate from the accident that left him without arms to becoming a triple long jump world champion, inventor of a new type of prosthetics and a motivational speaker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Kmete, kmete
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1990-03-12
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Icon
Overview: A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian policewoman, they work to uncover a plot to use biological weapons against certain factions of the Russian people to commit genocide. The virus would also be released in other populations, but would be treated making the candidate a hero. A side plot has the agent being reunited with his long lost daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Class ‘90
Overview: Schoolmates who graduated in 1989 in Bulgaria gather at a small hotel in the Rhodope mountain to celebrate their 30th high school anniversary. What is supposed to be a festive event turns into painful experience as old secrets and trauma still haunt them. The sum of their life experiences, their unfulfilled dreams and current goals reflect the upheavals of the post-communist society during the 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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