Stefan Danailov
Birthday: Born in 1942-12-09 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Deathday: 2019-11-27
Stefan Lambov Danailov (Bulgarian: Стефан Ламбов Данаилов) (born 9 December 1942) is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria (August 2005 – July 2009). The first film Danailov took part in was The Traces Remain (Следите остават) when he was a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor but in 1966, he graduated from VITIZ (Bulgarian Theatre Academy). His best-known work is as Major Deyanov in the series На всеки километър (At Each Kilometer). He has participated in numerous films and plays for which he won a lot of prizes. For several years he has been a professor at the Theatre Academy in Sofia.
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La Piovra
Character: Nazareno 'Nuzzo' Marciano
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price....
Стъклен дом
Character: Dimitar Kasabov
Glass Home is a Bulgarian drama series created by bTV. It's a family drama and the executive producers are Dimityr Mitovski and Dimityr Gochev from "Camera OOD". It airs in bTV's primetime. Some of Bulgaria's most famous actors star in the series, which is directed by Viktor Bojinov and Petar Rusev....
Фамилията
Character: Boris Arnaudov
Tells the story of Stefan Markov - a journalist who has been through a terrible loss in his past - his beloved girlfriend has been missing for 4 years....
Столичани в повече
Character: The Patriarch
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Голямата игра
Character: Georgiy Iordanov
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Дом за нашите деца
Character: Ivan Tsolov, architect
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Racket
Character: Vincenzo Grumo
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Време за път
Character: арх. Цолов
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Petimata ot RMS
Character:
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
Character: Minta
Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I....
The Traces Remain
Character: Veselin
This is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A group of kids play on a quiet street in Sofia. From a nearby window falls a key. The helpful youngsters quickly return it to the owner, but in the haste switch the keys. The unintentional error disentangles a whole spy story. The young detectives doubt the good intentions of the man they tried to help. It turns out that the key is from a secret apartment where saboteurs are hiding. The secret network is exposed to the authorities and the kids fe...
The Deep End of the Ocean
Character: Stephan / ontori
A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case....
The Berlin Conspiracy
Character: Actor
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....
Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta!
Character: Slavcho
Television adaptation of the comedy "Mihal Mishkoed" by Sava Dobroplodni. Bay Mihal, one of the wealthy residents of the town, is in love with the beautiful Radka. A naive and somewhat foolish old bachelor approaching his fifties, he is determined to marry her at any cost. Around Bay Mihal, there are flattering matchmakers assuring him that she also loves him. He is generous and extravagant, blindly believing their words that they will persuade her to accept him. However, Radka has no idea that...
After the End of the World
Character: Albert Cohen
Two friends (Katarina Didaskalou, Stefan Danailov) are separated when their village is divided by Communism, but they meet again 40 years later and begin having an affair....
The Clairvoyant
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A provincial town at the end of the 19th century. An adversary arrives who amazes the women with his incredible predictions. He enters the mayor's house and promises a lot of money to the whole family and to a guest - the priest. Allegedly unbelieving, the priest and the mayor pricked up their ears. The money would come from a young man who had recently arrived in the town. The only new arrival is Mancho - the photographer. The mayor and the priest find their way to him, and soon after the two, ...
Monday Morning
Character: Krastyo
Frivolous girl falls in love with a young construction worker. He trusts her and decides to include her in his team of workers. In the beginning, she is happy, but soon starts to feel the tensions between the people in the team. Hypocrisy and demagogy fill her with indignation and she does not keep silent about the shortcomings and mistakes of her colleagues. Gradually, her superiors become uneasy about her and the girl has to go. Her boyfriend offers her marriage, but she decides to take her ow...
Dance of the Samodivi
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In a small provincial town, an young local artist exhibits his works. One of the paintings, depicting a fairy dance of naked women, provoke the people which discover similarities with a certain lady from the neighbourhood....
A Real Man
Character: Sasho
Among his friends, Sasho is famous for "killing a wolf". Milka, a good-hearted girl falls in love with the heroic boy. They get married and have a baby girl. In order for Sasho to continue his architecture studies, Milka starts to work in a factory. Sasho gives up his studies and he gets involved with a gang of swindlers....
The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Character: Burgundetza
The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it....
Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing
Character: Boris I
Part one of this two-part epic follows the life and deeds of Boris I – a strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders....
Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
Character: Danton Tahov
Three colleagues and devoted friends – Danton, Petar and Andrey – share an office, and not only, on the fifth floor of a socialist industrial research institute from the mid-eighties. Every morning when they come to work they lock the door of the office and, armed with binoculars and great interest, they begin watching the aerobics exercises of a young girl in the nearby building. Suddenly, their tranquil daily round is disturbed - a new director takes over the Institute and decides to develop c...
Ladies' Choice
Character: Yakim - The driving instructor
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 beginner-drivers....
The Inspector and the Night
Character: Tom
A classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov...
Dawn Over the Drava
Character: Lieutenant Bozhev
In 1944 Bulgaria switches sides and joins the war against Germany. The story focuses on the advance of the Bulgarian army through Yugoslavia and Hungary, as well as its internal struggles....
24 Hours Rain
Character: Kapitan Vasil Altunov
A gray border, dull village. Time seems to have stopped in this place. The appearance of a beautiful woman breaks the monotonous way of life and challenges the colorless group of men and makes them come out of their shells....
Something Out of Nothing
Character: Pancho
A famous metropolitan journalist decides to pay a surprise visit to his classmate Pancho in the countryside. Pancho has gone to town and his wife has to greet the guest. Under the curious eyes of the neighbors, the two are waiting for him to come back home. The awkwardness between them intensifies. How will they sleep under one roof? What will people say?...
Love
Character: Nikolay
Maria is having great difficulty getting on with her parents because of their blind, consumerist approach to life. Traumatized by continuous family dramas, having experienced the disappointments of firs love, Maria decides to go up the mountain to a holiday home. There she meets a conceited architect, a shy teacher, a jurist, and a timid journalist (all of them representatives of the intelligentsia) who are domineered by the manager of the holiday home and his 'problems'. Maria's resignation cha...
Staklenata reka
Character: Бащата на Елен
After the death of her father, the young French woman Ellen Thibaud arrives in the Bulgarian village of Gradishte. She was guided there by the mysterious founder of their family and famous Qatari Bogomil, Robert Burg.All she left behind was a parchment filled with incomprehensible signs and letters in the form of drawings. Ellen was obliged to decipher his message to her grandchildren and to the world. In her search, the young woman meets her father Peter and the adventurer Victor, who has been ...
Nona
Character: Galchev
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 ...
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Character: Nikolai Korabelov
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An early widowed baroness, having left Petersburg, and having invested all her money in organizing a volunteer sanitary detachment, she becomes a sister of mercy on the front of the Bulgarian war with the Ott...
Crisis in the Kremlin
Character: Ambrazis (as Stephan Danailov)
The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life....
There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather
Character: Lyubo
A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent undercover to a big Western European company....
Ivan Kondarev
Character: Kostadin Dzhupunov
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....
Queen of Turnovo
Character: Dr. Stariradev
The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town, Turnovo. A rich young doctor suffers because of his love to his housemaid. Meanwhile the First World War is beginning....
Houses Without Fences
Character: Kerkeneza
Misho becomes an orphan. The good people from the neighborhood take care of him until the child is placed in an orphanage. Everyone is trying to bring joy to the kid. However, Misho is searching for his mother's love in their eyes. Now the people are being kind to him, but there is always an invisible wall. Maybe uncle Elenko is the most sincere, since he shows his feelings in a tragic moment when Misho gets on a roof of a construction site. However, why does he care for Misho end with him convi...
Blood Remains
Character: Vasil Gramatikov
World War II. Vasil is in serious conflict with the police officer Simeonov and at the same time with his childhood friend and brother by faith - the partisan Kalin. Yana comes between Vasil and Kalin. She has grown up with them and they are both in love with her. She loves Vasil more but she cannot accept his individualism. The tragic struggle in Vasil determines his doom. After the coup on September 9, 1944, he arrests Simeonov, but when he takes him to the military tribune, he dies unexpected...
The Sea
Character: Toni
Zhana and Toni meet on a crowded beach. She is hanging around bars; he is seeking amorous adventures. They spent the night together, then jump into Mercedes sport car and get into a breath-taking race. In the morning, they learn that a man has been run over during the night. A dark suspicion comes over them. They travel again the same road again. The resulting confessions strip their masks from them... Believing him to be guilty, Toni wants to turn him in. However, the real culprit is detected. ...
Poem
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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....
The Central Warmth
Character: Workman / Gyp
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....
The First Courier
Character: Ivan Zagubanski
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to...
Don Quixote Returns
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Spain, XVII century. Elderly eccentric Don Quihan dreams of romance about knights and exploits. Everyone around him considers the old man crazy, only the shepherd Sancho Panse sincerely believed in the noble impulses of Don Kihano. One night, Don Quihano decides to realize his dream and escape from the city. “Don Quixote Returns” is an adventure comedy based on the novel “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel Cervantes....
Reunion
Character: Дядо
Three friends return from abroad and every one of them comes upon at something from his past. Finally they go to their hometown to save the house of one of their childhood friends from being demolished....
The Prince
Character: Knyaz Svetoslav
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 joi...
Войникът от обоза
Character: Zhivko Georgiev
In September 1944, the red army crosses the Danube. Private Ales together with his agricultural horses follows the victory march. A broken wheel of his cart forces Ales to fall behind and look for help in the nearby village. The "odyssey" of the common cavalry soldier begins. He becomes a friend with the Bulgarian peasants. They need to part ways with a hidden sadness and true love. —Georgi Djulgerov...
Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Character: Boris I
Knyaz Boris I reached the most important spiritual insight - the country needed a single language and script. It accepts students of Cyril and Methodius, creating Ohrid and Preslav Literary School. What other nations took centuries, for bulgarians takes place only about 20 years after their baptizing - introduced a Slavonic Alphabet....
Iskam Amerika
Character: Rezhisyorat Paskalev
A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father - a resistance hero....