Georgi Staykov
Also Known As: Gueorgui Staykov, Georgi Staiko, Georgi Staikov, Georgi Stajkov, Giorgi Staykov, Георги Стайков
Biography: Georgi Staykov is a Bulgarian actor, born in the town of Veliko Tarnovo on the 10th of August 1964. In 1989 he graduates from the Bulgarian Acting Academy, where his mentor is Encho Halachev, and leaves for Sweden. In Swedish movies he often portrays Eastern-European characters, many of them antagonistic, or, as he himself states, "all bad guys who eventually die". His most wide success is the portrayal of Alexander Zalachenko, a former Soviet spy, in the Swedish film trilogy "Millenium", based on the books by Stieg Larsson. In Bulgaria, Staykov is known for his roles in movies like "Vchera" (Yesterday), "Bez draskotina" (No scratch), "Reservat" (Reservate), "Missia London" (Mission London) and "Tilt". He has made appearances in new TV shows such as "Sedem Chasa Razlika" (In seven hours). Staykov is living and teaching in Stockholm, Sweden, and is married to a Swedish opera singer. With her he has a son, Albert Nicholas, born in 2007.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Birthday: August 10, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Baba's Cars
Overview: Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Overview: Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Overview: After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Wallander: The Witness
Overview: A girl goes missing somewhere in Ystad. It is obvious that she has seen something terrible and that someone wants her silenced. At the same time, a trial of human traffickers begins.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-07-21
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The King of Ping Pong
Overview: Rille, an ostracized and bullied teenager, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their father surfaces during their spring break.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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Paradiset
Overview: Tabloid journalist Annika Bengtzon is writing about a murder in the port of Stockholm and she suspects that the Yugoslav mafia is involved. However, she also finds links to a foundation that runs a shelter for battered women, Paradiset. Looking for a good story she also meets a welfare official, Thomas, who also thinks that the foundation should be looked into. Written by Mattias Thuresson
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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The Babylon Syndrome
Overview: When Maja's boyfriend travels to India for a couple of months, she is left with no place to stay. She begins lodging with Mattias, a young unemployed man with a group of slacker friends and a 'seize the day' attitude to life. At first terrified by their irresponsibility, she soon finds herself drawn into their orbit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Mission London
Overview: A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-04-16
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Offside
Overview: In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes on a business trip to Liverpool and meet Duncan Miller, the premier league football star of the 1980s who promises to come over to Sweden and play a few games just for fun. Unfortunately, when he arrives it is obvious that their saviour is both an alcoholic and very unfit to play. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-08-18
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Tilt
Overview: TILT is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and immoral social atmosphere thanks to a gang of adventurous friends?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2011-01-28
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The Quiet Game
Overview: Three women inherit a manor from a lady called Dolores whom none of them knows. The women are complete strangers to each other, so they meet up at the neglected mansion. Unexpectedly, the big house is occupied by a 40 year old man who had lived together with Dolores for almost a decade. Christian says he doesn’t know anything about Dolores’ earlier life, and he does everything within his power to show them that the manor is morally his and that it is all a mistake. The women stay on the estate for three days, and while they are getting acquainted conflicts arise. Also, in search of the reason why they have inherited the house, it slowly dawns on one of the women what lies behind the will of Dolores (from official website).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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Graveyard Island
Overview: Summer 1985. The headlines dominates of the hunt of a foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago. A group of young teenage boys makes unexpected discoveries.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Sandor /slash/ Ida
Overview: Ida lives hard and fast with too much drinking and a string of boyfriends, Sandor has very few friends and his mother insists that he practices ballet. They meet in a chat room and despite appearances they discover they have much in common. Sandor and Ida lives in different cities and when Sandor unexpectedly visits her it ends with disaster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-02-04
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Beck 11 - The Cartel
Overview: It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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The Berlin Conspiracy
Overview: As the Berlin Wall crumbles, four canisters containing biological weapons are stolen by European terrorists. The East and West must work together to stop the terrorists from selling the weapons to the highest bidder. It is up to the CIA and an East German agent to overcome their own differences and get the weapons back.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-24
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Scar-Free
Overview: This is a film about a famous Bulgarian wrestler who is forced by the police authorities to work for them. We see a lonely man, tortured by his consciousness, who dies without single scratch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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And Where Do We Go from Here?
Overview: During an imaginary actors exam, in order to choose the best, the jury utilizes immoral ways of selection – spying, making conflicts, humiliating the applicants – in short, taking advantage of its power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-10-17
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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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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Overview: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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Бронзовата лисица
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
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The Return of the Dancing Master
Overview: Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-08
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Made in YU
Overview: The lives of three brothers who left their small village in Serbia to live in Sweden. The first one escaped from police, while the other two followed his path.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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All She Wrote
Overview: When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, he falls for Jana, an off-centered Bulgarian immigrant living in New York. While he recognizes that she is as crazy as he is, Jana does not share the same opinion. But her brother, Bobby, an up and coming wannabe fighter, decides to convince her she is that crazy in order to get Aaron in the ring against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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Night of the Wolf
Overview: During a live broadcast of a talk show on a TV channel, a group of armed Chechen terrorists take several hostages. The terrorists demand the hostage drama is transmitted live worldwide. Meanwhile, behind the scene, the police negotiator and a special police unit are working to try to rescue the hostages.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Omnipresent
Overview: The story of Omnipresent is centered around Emil, writer and owner of advertising agency who gradually becomes obsessed with spying on his family, friends and employees via hidden spy cameras. What starts as an innocent hobby ends up as a total disaster, as in the process he abuses his new power and eventually comes to realize that some secrets should be left uncovered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Dreams
Overview: Goran just got out of high school and doesn't know what he wants to do with his life. Should he stick with his small time gangster friends and make some cash, or listen to Zeko in the fast food stall who thinks you should go to school forever? Right now he is satisfied drinking beer and hitting on girls. But when his mom gets really sick and has to go to the hospital he has to make a choice. She wants to go back to her homeland Croatia one last time. She has even saved up the money. It's waiting for Goran in a plastic bag under her pillow. It's time to make the decision that will change his life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-03-10
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Seeking Temporary Wife
Overview: Fredrik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is distraught. But his biological clock has started ticking, and his desire for a child is overwhelming. At an adoption agency he meets Milla, a woman who has also been treated unfairly by love. Could Milla be the answer to Frederik's dream?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Plantera kyssar
Overview: A few couples in love, refreshing their love memories of love at first sight, what is left today and what will happen tomorrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Father of My Children
Overview: Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs. Too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering. But Grégoire ploughs on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-16
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On the Roofs at Night
Overview: 1987 Bulgarian 2-part television feature film (drama) directed by Binka Zhelyazkova
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-02-08
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Protected Zone
Overview: Boyan Borov is on the trail of some poachers who killed mouflons in a protected area. Instead he comes across traces of the murder of his father which occurred many years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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It's All About Love
Overview: The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-10
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