Asen Georgiev

Birth : 1940-01-28, Sofia, Bulgaria

Death : 2016-09-05

History

Asen Georgiev was a Bulgarian actor, screenwriter and writer. Asen Georgiev was born on January 28, 1940 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was a versatile artist with appearances in different areas of culture - film and theater actor, screenwriter, editor of feature films, author of several fictions. He created vivid and memorable characters in the movies: "Snooze" (1965), "Swedish King" (1968), "Freedom or Death" (1969), "Every kilometer" (1969), "Armando" (1969), "Do not Look back" (1971) , "At Every Kilometer" (1971), "The Boy is Going" (1972), "A Peasant on a Bicycle" (1974), "Highway" (1975), "Heat" (1978), "In the Name of the People" (1984), "Echelons of death" (1986). In the history of Bulgarian cinema he will remain as a original author of scripts such as "Tough Love", "Uoni", "As a Tracer," "Taste of Pearl", "Y-17". He has worked as an editor for Boyana Film Studios and Documentary Studios "Screen". He died on September 5, 2016.

Movies

A Peasant on a Bicycle
A Peasant on a Bicycle
D-r Krastev
Born in a small village, Yordan has to live and work in the nearby town. Only on the weekends can he return to his native village. He travels by a bike and observes the nature and the animals around him with overt sadness. In the village arrives a young pharmacist and she rents his house. Soon both of them fall in love. In order to be near her, Yordan tries to persuade his colleagues to move one of the workshops from the plant to the village. But they are all used to living in the town now and decline his offer. Yordan realizes that he cannot demand impossible things.
A Difficult Love
A Difficult Love
Screenplay
In a small town, two married people fall in love. What difficulties they will face and how to cope with them.
The Last Word
The Last Word
Script Editor
The seven women inmates in Poslednata Duma are imprisoned because they have been associated with partisans opposing the fascist puppet government of the German Nazis. Each of them has the power to save herself if she will betray the others, and each bravely refuses to do so, even though it means they all will die. Despite their grim situation, and the atrocities perpetuated on them as political prisoners, they manage to laugh, and even celebrate a festival.
Y-17
Y-17
Writer
The Bulgarian intelligence service has information that the top agent Peron is to arrive in Bulgaria. The higher official of the counter intelligence Ivan with an alias Y 17 is to investigate. Peron has to meet his local contact, the former ship captain Rudnev. The young Mina is accommodated in Rudnev's home. Rudnev figures that she is counterintelligence and agrees to cooperate with the task force. Soon after, Peron meets Mina and an eccentric engineer, fired from the job. The young man is the deep undercover agent Y 117. Peron tests the man. He tells him that Mina is an agent of the Bulgarian counterintelligence, and gives him a gun to kill her. Y 117 shoots Mina but the bullet was a blank. After that Y 117 should leave the country with Peron.
The Boy Turns Man
The Boy Turns Man
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.
Don't Look Back
Don't Look Back
The movie is set in the years of WWII. The partisans Stefan, Rado and Velko await a plane with weapon. The three men are trapped. Velko is killed. Rado and Stefan go to the Silent one. Only she knows the location where the weapon should be received. Army regiments arrive and a shootout begins. The plane drops the weapons. Stefan covers the others with machine gun while the Silent one and Rado leave with the weapon to the contingent
Armando
Armando
Yanko, a young partisan, arrives in a small coastal town. He has to carry out a mission and return to his unit immediately. However, he runs into Armando, a former schoolmate. The guitarist Armando is genuinely overjoyed. He throws back a glass or two, plies his friend with questions, and indulges in memories. Yanko's heart is torn between conflicting emotions: Should he kill Armando and thus avoid the risk of detection? On the other hand, should he take a chance and spare his onetime friend? In a moment of lucidity, Armando realizes the tight spot that he is in. He offers the partisan his own, better clothes and wishes him god luck. Just when Armando is at his happiest, the police, who have mistaken him for the outlaw they want, shoot him.
The Swedish Kings
The Swedish Kings
Blago
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 strange and embarrassing situations, only to soon realize that real happiness is not in this coveted gilded world but among his work brigade buddies.