Movies & TV Shows/Series by Boyana Film at a glance

251 movies and TV shows/series found (page 1/9):

The Profession of Arms(2001)

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal armies, commanded by Giovanni de'Medici, try to chase them in the midst of a harsh winter. Nevertheless, the Imperial armies manage to cross the rivers along their march and get cannons thanks to the maneuvers of its Lords. In a skirmish, Giovanni de'Medici is wounded in the leg by a falconet shot. The attempts to cure him fail and he dies. The Imperial armies assault Rome. The film is beautifully but unassumingly set, and shows the hard conditions in which war is waged and its lack of glory. It ends straightforwardly with the declaration made after the death of Giovanni de'Medici by the commanders of the armies in Europe of not using again fire weapons because of their cruelty.

Directed by Ermanno Olmi - With Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Rachkov, Fabio Giubbani, Sandra Ceccarelli, Franco Palmieri, ...

The Little Mermaid(1976)

1h 17min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale 'The Little Mermaid'.

Directed by Vladimir Bychkov - With Mikhail Pugovkin, Stefan Iliev, Stefan Pejchev, Ivan Gaydardzhiev

In Search for Captain Grant(1985)

7h 35min | Adventure

3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is known (37 degrees), but no longitude. The Glenarvans decide to find captain Grant.

Directed by Stanislav Govorukhin - With Vladimir Smirnov, Lembit Ulfsak, Nikolay Yeryomenko, Boris Khmelnitsky, Ruslan Kurashov, Marina Vlady, ...

Time of Violence(1988)

4h 48min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.

Directed by Ludmil Staikov - With Iossif Surchadzhiev, Rousy Chanev, Ivan Krastev, Anya Pencheva, Vassil Mihajlov, Kalina Stefanova, ...

Adio, Rio(1989)

1h 24min | Drama, Horror, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Stoev, a talented architect is working in Rio de Janeiro. All along the design stages, Stoev's understanding has been that he would be going together with his assistant architect. However, the company chief secretly decides to change the terms and go instead of the assistant, threatening Stoev to cancel the whole deal if he doesn't comply. Stoev is left with the dilemma to betray a colleague and friend, or to miss the greatest opportunity in his career. When Stoev is about to choose the former, a mysterious dead body appears in his life.

Directed by Ivan Andonov - With Filip Trifonov

The Demon of the Empire(1971)

Drama, War & Politics, Action & Adventure

A limited series focusing on the life of Vasil Levski and the Bulgarian fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Directed by Vili Tzankov

The Goat Horn(1972)

1h 40min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

XVII century, Bulgaria is under Ottoman rule. Four men break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their child, Maria. To protect his daughter and to enact revenge, he raises Maria as a son, teaching her to fight and kill. But as Maria grows up, she longs for a different life.

Directed by Metodi Andonov - With Anton Gorchev, Katya Paskaleva

Legend of Love(1957)

1h 22min | Fantasy

A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst.

Directed by Václav Krška - With Apostol Karamitev, Emilia Radeva, Zheni Bozhinova, Andrey Chaprazov, Kiril Ilinchev, Dosyo Dosev, ...

The Peach Thief(1964)

1h 24min | Drama, War, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.

Directed by Vulo Radev - With Nevena Kokanova, Rade Marković, Mikhail Mikhaĭlov, Naum Shopov, Wasil Watschew, Georgi G. Georgiev, ...

Exams at Any Odd Time(1974)

1h 10min | Comedy, Kids & Family

4.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Two novels united by common characters and a never-settled problem: the clash between sincerity of children and the heartless pragmatism and ambitions of grown-ups.

Directed by Ivanka Grybcheva

Margarit and Margarita(1989)

1h 32min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A pair of rebellious high school students get thrown out of home and school, then drift from job to job. Bulgaria's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.

Directed by Nikolai Volev - With Hristo Shopov, Irini Zhambonas, Vassil Mihajlov

Rain over Santiago(1975)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.

Directed by Helvio Soto Soto - With André Dussollier, Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Bibi Andersson, Henri Poirier, Jean-Louis Trintignant, ...

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Armourless Knight(1966)

1h 18min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Impersonating a knight is one of the favorite games of nine-year-old protagonist. Now as Don Quixote, now as D'Artagnan he is fighting evil, he is searching for justice and defending the weak. Together with his friends, packed in cardboard armor, they play all day long. As he is playing, however, he unwittingly witnesses the relation between his parents and gradually comes to understand that the world of the adults is far removed from the canons of knightly honor. His parents love him, but never seem to find the time to listen to his concerns. The deceit, corruption and lack of respect in his own family alienate the small boy. The only adult, whom the boy trusts, is his uncle to whom he is attached by a genuine, equal, man-to-man friendship. He takes him to the cinema and theater performances and talks to him like with his peer. Will this sensitive kid ever succeed in building an internal armor against selfishness and rudeness?

Directed by Borislav Sharaliev - With Apostol Karamitev

Villa Zone(1975)

1h 19min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Eduard Zahariev - With Itzhak Fintzi, Katya Paskaleva, Naum Shopov

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment(1971)

2h 16min | Drama, History

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Directed by Konrad Wolf - With Ernst Busch, Wolfgang Kieling, Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Rolf Hoppe, ...

The Mandolin(1973)

1h 6min | Drama

Gallows is being raised in a prison yard. A moment before the execution the Girl brings a document of the young communist's temporary pardon. The chief of the prison, the Major, has a mandolin collection. He offers a fistfight to the young communist. The young man hits him. The Major and the young communist start playing the mandolins together. Girl is allowed to meet the young communist. The boy begins to play. The melody brings to the Major pleasant memories. He fought in the Spanish civil war, but after the defeat, he turned back on his beliefs. The Major receives a telegram that he needs to send the young communist to another prison. Death awaits him there. In is rage the Major breaks the mandolins. He orders the young communist to be taken out to work. The young man runs off. The Major shoots him himself.

Directed by Ilya Velchev - With Yuri Angelov, Peter Slabakov, Sashka Bratanova, Dosyo Dosev, Ivan Grigorov, Georgi G. Georgiev, ...

The Barrier(1979)

1h 43min | Drama, Fantasy

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

In this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of harmony and happiness. The delicate, pretty, sensitive Dorotea and the sedate middle-aged composer Antoni meet by chance. He gives her shelter in his house. Famous composer falls under the spell of young Dorothea: A pretty, thin-skinned, though quite an eccentric girl.

Directed by Christo Christov - With Innokenty Smoktunovsky

The Sun and the Shadow(1962)

1h 15min | Fantasy, Drama

The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness.

Directed by Rangel Vulchanov

Men(1966)

1h 32min | Drama

Three young men, who have become friends while doing their national service, make their way in the world.

Directed by Vasil Mirchev - With Sava Hashamov, Dobromir Manev, Mikhail Mikhaĭlov, Spas Dschonew, Yordan Matev, Nikolay Binev, ...

Life Quietly Moves On...(1957)

2h | Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The fortunes of a group of partisans after the triumph of the socialist revolution.

Directed by Hristo Ganev - With Bogomil Simeonov, Emilia Radeva, Ivan Bratanov, Dimitar Buynozov, Ivanka Dimitrova, Lyubomir Dimitrov, ...

Legacy of the Incas(1965)

1h 40min | Adventure, Western

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.

Directed by Georg Marischka - With Guy Madison, Rik Battaglia, Francisco Rabal, Heinz Erhardt, Walter Giller, Chris Howland, ...

Avalanche(1982)

2h 33min | Adventure, Drama

4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ in tempers, in problems and notions of honor and dignity. Already up in the mountain, they are expected to pull themselves together to the full, in order to succumb to the will of the leader and forget about the tensions, accumulated among the members of the team. The team of young mountaineers is scaling a difficult summit, but mid-way they are buried by an avalanche. Caught in the deadly vortex, each of the characters relieves the cherished moments of his or her life. Each character illustrates a separate theme. Nayden has to cope with the problems of leadership. Nikifor is his rival, who is destined to be the perennial number two. The Man ho Is Sensitive to Cold is preoccupied with the subject of friendship. Matters that are typically artist absorb the Poet, The Sculptor and the Cameraman.

Directed by Hristo Piskov

The Fatal Comma(1979)

1h 23min | Drama, Kids & Family

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Silviya is an excellent student, favorite of the teachers, but she does not do well in math. Silviya puts a comma in the school journal between the number 1 and 9 in the absences column in order to hide her absence from math class. The school regulation is set; three absences mean an administrative punishment. Two of her innocent classmates are punished, numbers 1 and 9, not number 19, which is Silviya. The teachers trust the "good girl". Silviya feels guilty.She is struggling between right and wrong. She must find the right answer for herself.

Directed by Lilyana Pencheva - With Georgi Kadurin, Lyuba Aleksieva, Katya Dineva

Everything is Love(1979)

1h 42min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Rado, an orphan from a poor Sofia neighborhood, has been in and out of school for troubled youth for years. Although he is approaching adulthood, he is yet to finish 8th grade. He cannot reconcile his pride and sense of justice with the kind of education provided by people who are deprived of sensibility and human warmth. Rado asserts his right to freedom by frequently running away. During one of his escapes he meets the love of his life, Albena. She is a good student, and comes from a well-educated, sophisticated family. This new and unexpected connection intensifies Rado's desire for freedom and independence, and leads them both into uncharted territory.

Directed by Borislav Sharaliev - With Ivan Ivanov

Heroes of Shipka(1954)

2h 3min | War, Drama, History

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As head of the Leningrad Film Studios, Vasilyev was obliged to traffic in propaganda, but he never forgot how to make his material entertaining. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing the solidarity of the Soviet states, tribute is paid to the courageous Bulgarian volunteers who helped the Russians fend off their mutual enemy. American critics were impressed by Heroes of Shipka, but felt that the film would have been twice as effective had it been lensed in Cinemascope rather than "standard aspect.".

Directed by Sergei Vasilyev - With Ivan Pereverzev, Apostol Karamitev, Zheni Bozhinova, Bruno Freindlich, Viktor Avdyushko, Georgi Yumatov, ...

King for a Day(1983)

1h 27min | Comedy

4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

This film is a comedy about a poor man named Purko. Purko always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.

Directed by Nikolai Volev - With Todor Kolev, Itzhak Fintzi, Stoyan Gadev

This Happened on the Street(1956)

1h 27min | Comedy

A truck driver falls in love with the woman he nearly hit.

Directed by Yanko Yankov - With Apostol Karamitev

The Hijacking of 'Savoy'(1979)

1h 32min | Adventure, Kids & Family

2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.

Directed by Venyamin Davydovich Dorman - With Lachezar Stoyanov

Bai Ganyo on His Way to Europe(2023)

1h 34min | Comedy

Bay Ganyo is the national anti-hero. He personifies arrogance, insolence, greediness, and the absolute incapability to adopt any civilization principles of relationships. This protagonist was featured by great Bulgarian writer Aleko Konstantinov in the end of 19 c., both with an incredible sense of humor and anguish. Whether being in the Wiener Opera, or visiting a famous scientist at his home, or shopping, or just walking down the streets, this Bulgarian character, Bay Ganyo, is no more than a hopeless barbarian. The film makes new interpretation of this classical literature work. The comic adventures of Baj Ganjo are reconstructed in retro-nostalgic tonality. The final episode when the protagonist appears on the stage of the Wiener Opera among the singers participating in a Mozart's opera is the culmination of the transition of the farce into a tragic comedy.

Directed by Ivan Nitchev

The Truck(1980)

1h 48min | Drama

A study in human psychology that uses five disparate characters from clearly defined social positions, this film offers as much insight into the society of a changing Bulgaria, as it does into the minds of individuals in conflict. The story centers around transporting a worker's corpse, in a truck, to the mountain village where he was born. In the truck is: a man who may be suffering from tuberculosis, and who has an unfaithful wife at home; a doctor (the intellectual); a bookkeeper worried over the salaries she pays out; a hermit picked up on the road; and the driver who is a rough-and-ready working-class symbol. The seeds for conflict are set both by the personalities of the five in the truck and by their social background. The director Christo Christov, acknowledges his debt to Henri-Georges Clouzot and the Wages of Fear, for inspiration in the treatment of human conflict, its development through a set storyline, and its resolution in each of the five cases.

Directed by Christo Christov - With Grigor Vachkov, Lilyana Kovacheva, Veselin Valkov, Stefan Dimitrov, Đoko Rosić, Yordan Spirov, ...

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