Naum Shopov
Also Known As: Наум Шопов, Наум Христов Шопов, Naum Hristov Shopov
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Birthday: July 27, 1930
Deathday: April 18, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The She-Wolf
Overview: Anna, nicknamed the She-wolf, is a young girl with provocative behavior, who actually hides an unhappy childhood without parents and real friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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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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Banished from Eden
Overview: In a concert, one of the musicians suddenly rushed to the sky. There he waits at St. Peter's Gate to be received. Inside, pathetic music is played. A musician plays jazz. The angels begin to tremble in rhythm
Genres: Animation
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-03-27
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The Peach Thief
Overview: The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1964-11-09
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The Central Warmth
Overview: A tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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Homecoming
Overview: Five Bulgarian émigrés return to their country by submarine from the Soviet Union. They have to organize the antifascist resistance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Grand Piano
Overview: In order to shorten the completion period of a new work area, the director promises that he will organize a grand concert of famous opera singers at the opening of the new hall. There is an unexpected problem - there is no grand piano. The brigadier sends one of his workers to look for the instrument in the town. He finds himself in a very mysterious new world. After a series of comic situations, he manages to find the grand piano. The grand piano is in the production hall. The order of the day is completed, but is that enough?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1979-01-15
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Evenings in Antim's Inn
Overview: The lives and fates of the regular visitors of a village inn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-04-02
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Third Planet in the Solar System
Overview: The film is in 3 parts: 1) 'Eden' - Aliens from the planet Rhea have flown with a damaged spaceship to Earth, looking for intelligent beings. They find apemen and take one of them into their ship. 2) 'The Wanderer' - A crime writer, who is travelling to see his dying friend, picks up a strange hitchhiker. On his return from the sanatorium, his car goes off the road, but the stranger lifts it into the air and lands it back on the highway. Then he goes to the writer's house and shows him his supernatural abilities. 3) 'My First Day' - Len, an alien traveler arrives on Earth to share with humans the knowledge of their ancient civilization. He meets its inhabitants, who are served by robots and travel back in time, because their life is boring and meaningless. Every day his hostess Lena visits an ancient Slavic settlement and monitors its inhabitants. One day she appears before the hunter Bayan, who has been captivated by her beauty and takes her into his hut.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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Вагнер
Overview: Elena's job is working on the percussion press 'Wagner' of 1933. This is a tragic comedy about the absurdity of one day in life, in which her dream comes true.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1998-11-23
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Musketeer's Honor
Overview: Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan remember their youth and adventures, long battles and amorous adventures, they feel sorry for their Captain de Treville and do not lose sight of their eternal enemy - the Cardinal.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Sky Over Veleka
Overview: Marin, a middle-aged man, returns to his birthplace, nearly twenty years after he left.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1968-11-27
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If a train is not coming
Overview: A young engineer arrives in a small provincial town and falls in with a traffic police inspector, a driving instructor, and a cannery-engineering manager. From sheer boredom, the inspector tickets a driver who has not broken the regulations. The driving instructor takes advantage of his position to seduce one of his students. To kill time, the engineering manager spends his time intriguing. These passions seem to be all that the three of them live for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-06-23
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Tsar and General
Overview: The film is based on the conflict between the Monarch of Bulgaria -Tsar Boris III and general Vladimir Zaimov during the Second World War and discusses different understandings about heroism and self-sacrifice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1966-01-17
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The White Odyssey
Overview: During World War 2, four soldiers are trapped between a harsh winter and the enemy. They need food and shelter, but this comes at the expense of their position. With no where else to turn, they begin an Odyssey through the mountains.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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Granitza
Overview: There is a small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system gradually turns into a murderer.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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Soldiers of Freedom
Overview: A World War II historical drama and the sequel to the 1970-71's film series Liberation. The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army as a result of the failed assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942; the preparation for revolt in Slovakia; negotiations of the Polish communists with Władysław Sikorski's government over their joint struggle against fascism; the creation of a National Committee of the Domestic Front in Bulgaria and preparation by underground workers-communists for armed revolt; expansion of the guerrilla (partisan) movement; the failure of a German attempt to destroy People's Liberation Army of Josip Broz Tito; one of the largest military operations, Bagration; the beginning of the liberation of Poland; creation of the Polish National Government in Lublin; the Warsaw Uprising; the capitulation of Bór-Komorowski and defeat of the Polish patriots; the entry of Soviet and Polish armies into Warsaw.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-31
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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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Silence
Overview: A young sculptor has been preparing his first exhibition for years. In the autumn of 1962 it becomes a fact. The show provokes a scandal in the society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1991-01-21
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The Penleve Case
Overview: The three grotesque novels whose action takes place at different times of the recent past are united by a common thematic key – their protest against violence and militarism, expressed by means of a kind of absurd humor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1968-04-26
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Twosome Beneath the Skies
Overview: Stefan and Tanya arrive in a miners' settlement. They register as a married couple at the hostel, but Tanya admits to the house managers that Stefan has a wife but has started divorce procedure. The two have fled from the scandal. Stefan starts work at the mine and she waits for him in the hostel with little to do. Her mother arrives. Unable to swallow the humiliation of having been rejected by Tanya's family, Stefan gets drunk. When he comes back, he starts a row and has to be restrained. Stefan takes offense, leaves the mine, parts with Tanya, and becomes a waiter in the pub. Soon he obtains a divorce. He wants to take Tanya back to his native town. She refuses to give up her new friends and the steady job she has found. Stefan sets out alone. At the very last moment, he jumps from the bus...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1962-03-19
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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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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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Nona
Overview: The beginning of the 20th century. The young Nona comes back to her father's farm from Switzerland. She meets colonel Galchev. The officer expresses his love for her. The teacher Yosif who is in love with Nona organizes a revolt of the villagers with no property. Armed villagers rob the farm. Galchev and his soldiers arrive. During the shooting, the colonel is killed. Nona accuses Yosif of Galchev's death. The carriage of Nona's fiancé, who travels from Switzerland to the village, passes by the coffin with Galchev's body. A second after the fiancé enters her house Nona kills herself.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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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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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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Constantine The Philosopher
Overview: The story of St. Cyrilus (Constantine The Philosopher) in his quest of enlightening the Slavic people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1983-05-24
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The Stand-In
Overview: In a provincial town comes Elena -young actress. Soon she meets Ivan, who is the same age as her and who works at the construction site. In order to be a part of her world he agrees to pay as stand-in for a movie in which she has a small role. During the premiere, the actor gets all the fame and the stand-in stay unnoticed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Rali
Overview: 1876. The Turks murder the parents of the 14-year-old Rali. His only relative is sentenced to life imprisonment in the Asian fortress. Rali walks after the condemned men. After a long and painful road, he reaches the fortress. He finds help from the old man and his daughter. With their assistance, he organizes the escape of the condemned. After numerous adventures the fugitives reaches the motherland. They enlist in a Bulgarian rebel army together with the Russian soldiers of the Russian-Turkish War for the freedom of Bulgaria.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1978-06-26
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The Committee of 19
Overview: UN's The Committee of 19 sends six scientists to investigate a biological outbreak in Africa.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-17
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The Prince
Overview: At the end of 13th and the beginning of the 14th century twenty-four-years old, Prince Svetoslav Terter takes the helm of the state. The young Prince engages in a intricate political game, into getting his way by means of court intrigues, and is forced by circumstances. Svetoslav Terter is remarkably shrewd and consistent. He is perhaps the only head of state at this time to take the liberty of impeaching the primate of the country's church. He tries to rally the neighboring Slav people to a joint resistance to the Turkish conquest. Terter lives through a great personal tragedy. He becomes estranged from his dearest person, Mariya, who is too weak to join him on the difficult road of his choice. (written by Georgi Djulgerov)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1970-05-29
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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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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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