Tzvetana Maneva

After working for four difficult years in the Far North, extracting timber in the taiga, Bulgarian Angel Naydenov and Russian Nikolai Pavlov, leaders...

Set in the thirties, a sensitive peasant boy who is caught in the vice of cruel military machine. From the start his masters treat him as an...

1197. King Kaloyan ascends the throne in hard times for Bulgaria. The country is still recovering from a century of Byzantine subjugation. He is...

Vesa, a 16-year old Bulgarian girl, cannot speak. A fortune-teller predicts that the girl will convalesce if somebody sacrifices their life for her....

Six stories about the modern Bulgarian family.

Inspector Andreev arrives in a small provincial town. He starts digging through his predecessor's unsolved case, which involves certain big shots in...

Nurse Nikolova takes care of the elderly. She faces various human destinies. Her patients spend the rest of their lives alone. They seek from her...

A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to...

Early 20th century. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. Uprising are incited, blood is...

8-year old Alek's parents are divorced and he lives with his mother. He can feel that after the divorce there has been a big void in her life. He...

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the...

A couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations, caused between the driving-teacher and the...

The seven women inmates in Poslednata Duma are imprisoned because they have been associated with partisans opposing the fascist puppet government of...

Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.

This is a film about moral dilemmas which surgeons face. Dr Panov, the head doctor of a provincial hospital, has a keen sense of responsibility and...

It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is...

The construction worker Spas decides to go on a holiday at a luxurious seaside resort where he can live "like the Swedish kings". He gets himself in...

In the late 1980s, stage actor Alexander Petrov is banned from theatre without any apparent reason. When he reappears, after the demise of the...

The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through...

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...

1920's. A young girl - teacher comes from the city to a small, poor village to teach the children. There is a medic in the village. Without being a...

Maria, a beautiful middle-aged woman, former participant in the fight against Nazism is killed. The investigator Urumov discovers the criminal....

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...

The middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely unacceptable in a cramped socialist society.

In a small town, two married people fall in love. What difficulties they will face and how to cope with them.

He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating...

1987 Bulgarian 2-part television feature film (drama) directed by Binka Zhelyazkova

An elderly painter wakes up in a wooden boat in the middle of the sea with no memory of who he is. The only thing he has in him is a letter he has...

A talented theatre director has been expelled from the capital for two years. And he has been sent to a small provincial theatre where he wants to...