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Vasil Vachev

Vasil Vachev

Birth : 1925-06-14, Stubel, Ferdinand, now Montana, Bulgaria

History

Vasil Atanasov Vachev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born on June 14, 1925 in village Stubel, region Montana, Bulgaria. In the period from 1948 to 1950 he graduated College institute for teachers in Vratsa. In 1949, he became a member of the Union of Bulgarian Actors. Then he worked in theater and in cinema. He played in many Bulgarian movies: "The Peach Thief", "Bubble", "The Eighth", "The Longest Night" ,"Flood", "A White Magic", "The Boy is going" ,"The Penleve Case," "Royal", "Carom", "Green Monster", "The Stolen Train", "Dragon", "The Wall" and the TV series "Blue Light". Her acting fame became in 1963 with the film "The Irreconcilables " , directed by Yanko Yankov. His convincing performance as dumb won high praise from film critic and determined his future film career: a master of supporting characters. He put in his roles of Bulgarian peasant, a Bulgarian soldier the feeling of authenticity. These images are transferred him directly from his life - from his native village of Stubel and people who truly knows and loves, and from the front, where he participated himself. Great directors as Vulo Radev, Borislav Punchev, Gueorgui Stoyanov, Yanko Yankov found in him the talent of the silent hero "charismatic charm of delicate yet rigid soul of Bulgarian peasant." Silent heroes of Vasil Vachev became an integral part of Bulgarian Film Arts in the 60th and 70th. For years, he built an image after image of the scene of Vratsa Drama Theatre: Kutzar in "Albena" by Yordan Yovkov; in "Sleeping Beauty," "Paths", "Cold Land", "Borislav", "Emilia Galotti", "The Prosecutor", "Buried Sun", "A Girl Seeks the Truth", "Dress-maker from Saigon "," Mary Stuart", " Shining Dawn "," Repair "," Locked Spring ", " Wings ", " Prespa's Bells "," The Living Corpse ", "Under the yoke". These are some of his productions which will remain in the golden fund of Vratsa Theater.

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Vasil Vachev

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Kolibaryat

There is a dragon, which threatens the life of the shacked village. The attempts of lumberjacks, shepherds and hunters to get rid of the menace are without success. Their battle with the imaginary mythical monster makes them realize that their real enemies are the master Kolota and his servants. The dragon is beaten not physically but spiritually.

The Boy Turns Man

The Boy Turns Man

Vuychoto na Ran

The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they going to be, and what is more important, how are they going to live? In the whirlpool of meetings with different people and mainly with three women, the filmmakers are trying to see the future of their main character. His schoolmate Mariana wants to lead him into family life. The pop singer Neli is the very incarnation of adventurism. However, he is most deeply touched by the salesgirl in the near-by coffee shop Tintyava. This is a wordless affair in which each glance exchanged betrays the piercing excitement of impossible love.

The Stolen Train

The Stolen Train

Bay Manol

In September 1944, an unusual train travels to the Turkish border. Abroad the train are German fascists and Bulgarian King's officers who carry important papers and archives. A group of partisan chases the fugitives with a track. Soon airplanes with red stars on their wings could be seen in the sky. The planes are reinforcements from the Soviet aviation squadron. With its help the partisans capture the fugitives.

The Peach Thief

The Peach Thief

Colonel's Orderly

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

Nemiya

The action takes place at the end of WWII. It is 1944 on the Yugoslav front, where the Bulgarian Army is fighting bloody battles against the retreating Nazi units. Several lorries loaded with Bulgarian soldiers make a detour so as to deliver ammunitions to an army unit. They are people with different convictions sharing a common goal - to come out victorious and to return to their peaceful everyday life. Among them are people who believe in the triumph of the new system and for whom the difficult crusade is a confirmation of their ideals. They are also uncertain people. For the youngest this is the first trial in life. A young Yugoslav woman helps them find the road through the dangerous front line. Her romance with the one of Bulgarian soldiers symbolizes solidarity in the struggle against the common enemy. After a series of difficulties and mishaps, the soldiers manage to deliver the ammunitions to their comrades.