Stefan Danailov

Stefan Danailov

Born: December 9, 1942
Died: November 27, 2019
in Sofia, Bulgaria
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.

Movies for Stefan Danailov...

Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Дядо
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Family
Character: Boris Arnaudov
Released: April 7, 2013
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Sofia Residents in Excess
Character: The Patriarch
Released: March 23, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Glass Home
Character: Dimitar Kasabov
Released: April 11, 2010
Type: TV
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.
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Staklenata reka
Title: Staklenata reka
Character: Бащата на Елен
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
Title: St. George Shoots the Dragon
Character: Minta
Released: March 11, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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After the End of the World
Title: After the End of the World
Character: Albert Coen
Released: November 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Two friends (Katerina Didaskalo, Stefan Danalyov) are separated when their village is divided by Communism, but they meet again 40 years later and begin having an affair.
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Title: The Deep End of the Ocean
Character: Stephan / ontori
Released: March 8, 1998
Type: Movie
A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case.
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Don Quixote Returns
Title: Don Quixote Returns
Released: June 3, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Racket
Character: Vincenzo Grumo
Released: April 29, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: L'avvocato delle donne
Character: Vitali
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: TV
L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series.
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The Berlin Conspiracy
Title: The Berlin Conspiracy
Character: Actor
Released: March 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Crisis in the Kremlin
Title: Crisis in the Kremlin
Character: Ambrazis (as Stephan Danailov)
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life.
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Iskam Amerika
Title: Iskam Amerika
Character: Rezhisyorat Paskalev
Released: December 12, 1991
Type: Movie
A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father - a resistance hero.
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Live Dangerously
Title: Live Dangerously
Character: Valeri's Father
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Valeri is a senior in high school and a good athlete. He's very close to his father, but when his father suffers a fatal heart attack Valeri becomes convinced the doctor is to blame. He's set on revenge.
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Title: Большая игра
Character: Georgiy Iordanov
Released: December 19, 1988
Type: TV
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Monday Morning
Title: Monday Morning
Character: Krastyo
Released: October 31, 1988
Type: Movie
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 own path and lead a worthy life. The movie was shot in 1966 but was censored by the communist government and released in theatres on 31st October 1988.
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Protect the Small Animals
Title: Protect the Small Animals
Released: August 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two friends from their student years are dating. One of them is the director of a peasant school, and the other is an impresario in show business. Memories bring them back to their youth. What have they lost and what have they kept over the years? These questions are answered by the heroes at dawn, after a stormy night.
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Sky for All
Title: Sky for All
Character: Velikov - Slunceto
Released: May 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Anton is a former military pilot. Soon after his transition to civil aviation his wife leaves him. Despite his 45 years, he takes the change hard, the grief of his former job never leaves him. Anton and his crew are all people with interesting fates.
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Poem
Title: Poem
Released: August 18, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Home for Our Children
Character: Ivan Tsolov, architect
Released: June 25, 1986
Type: TV
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Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
Title: Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
Character: Danton Tahov
Released: June 3, 1985
Type: Movie
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 close scientific partnerships with similar institutes in Japan.
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Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Title: Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Character: Boris I
Released: April 8, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Boris I - Part 1 - The Baptizing
Title: Boris I - Part 1 - The Baptizing
Character: Boris I
Released: April 8, 1985
Type: Movie
The picture features the life and deeds of Boris I - strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders. Prince Boris I is ruling in the late 9th century. In his youth, he, the brilliant statesman and diplomat, is experiencing heavy defeats in the wars he wages against his neighbors. Nonetheless, he manages not to cede any territories to the enemies. Under his rule, Bulgaria breaks with paganism and joins the Christian community, paying an exorbitant price, a heavy death toll, but there is no other way. The adoption of Christianity in 864 was a historical event of great significance. It guaranteed Boris I much need peace with the Eastern Roman Empire and allowed him to merge the numerous tribes inhabiting the country into a unified nationality and later to found a state. Boris I introduced the Slav script, thus turning Bulgaria into the cradle of Slav culture.
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Title: The Octopus
Character: Nazareno 'Nuzzo' Marciano
Released: March 11, 1984
Type: TV
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.
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Aris
Title: Aris
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
30-year-old Emilia works as a scientist and is still single. Her parents pressure her into marriage by constantly trying to set her up. In her efforts to stop her parents, Emilia makes up a relationship with a fictional man based on the Greek revolutionary Aris.
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24 Hours Rain
Title: 24 Hours Rain
Character: Kapitan Vasil Altunov
Released: December 6, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Crystals
Title: Crystals
Character: Cholakov
Released: April 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Natural minerals are found all over the world. They represent the wealth of the country they come from. This film conveys the beauty of minerals.
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Autumn Sun
Title: Autumn Sun
Character: Kiril Dechev
Released: April 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Bulgaria, 1930s, small provincial town. Vyara Zadgorska returned to her hometown as a doctor after six years of study in France. Along the way she meets the landowner Assen Valchev, who is fascinated by her, but she is in love with someone else - the lawyer Kiril Donchev.
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Queen of Turnovo
Title: Queen of Turnovo
Character: Dr. Stariradev
Released: February 2, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Ladies' Choice
Title: Ladies' Choice
Character: Yakim - The driving instructor
Released: December 15, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Blood Remains
Title: Blood Remains
Character: Vasil Gramatikov
Released: February 25, 1980
Type: Movie
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 unexpectedly.
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Something Out of Nothing
Title: Something Out of Nothing
Character: Pancho
Released: July 8, 1979
Type: Movie
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?
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Moments in a Matchbox
Title: Moments in a Matchbox
Character: Kvartirantat
Released: February 5, 1979
Type: Movie
The 12-year-old Aneta and Boy feel that there is something like a first love between them. The kids are traveling to the countryside together. They get to two of Aneta's grandparents - one of her grandmothers was married three times. Aneta's favorite grandfather is her grandmother's third husband. He is not her real grandfather, but she loves him because he likes to fantasize. He taught Aneta a magic game - to light a match and imagine anything in flame. Her favorite grandfather dies. Aneta mourns him for a long time, lights matches but no use.
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The Central Warmth
Title: The Central Warmth
Character: Workman / Gyp
Released: November 20, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Yuliya Vrevskaya
Title: Yuliya Vrevskaya
Character: Nikolai Korabelov
Released: October 2, 1977
Type: Movie
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 Ottoman Empire of 1878.
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Dance of the Samodivi
Title: Dance of the Samodivi
Released: August 28, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The Clairvoyant
Title: The Clairvoyant
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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, and after them other prominent citizens, are entangled in the crook's web, to become victims of his greed...
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Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta!
Title: Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta!
Character: Slavcho
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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 Bay Mihal has feelings for her.
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Войникът от обоза
Title: Войникът от обоза
Character: Zhivko Georgiev
Released: December 11, 1975
Type: Movie
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
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A Real Man
Title: A Real Man
Character: Sasho
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Title: The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Character: Burgundetza
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Dawn Over the Drava
Title: Dawn Over the Drava
Character: Lieutenant Bozhev
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Houses Without Fences
Title: Houses Without Fences
Character: Kerkeneza
Released: February 8, 1974
Type: Movie
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 convincing him to go to the orphanage?
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Ivan Kondarev
Title: Ivan Kondarev
Character: Kostadin Dzhupunov
Released: January 11, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Nona
Title: Nona
Character: Galchev
Released: November 16, 1973
Type: Movie
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 coffin with Galchev's body. A second after the fiancé enters her house Nona kills herself.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Nikolay
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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 changes into a rebellion against impersonal submission and sheep-like compliance with those who hold power.
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There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather
Title: There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather
Character: Lyubo
Released: March 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent undercover to a big Western European company.
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The Black Angels
Title: The Black Angels
Character: Panter
Released: September 4, 1970
Type: Movie
The film is based on the memoir 'In the name of the People' by Mitka Grybcheva, an activist in the anti-fascist resistance. The action takes place during the WWII and reveals the sharp clash between police power and resistance forces, headed by the Communist Party of Bulgaria. This is a time when, 'in the name of the people', the fighters are setting up underground combat groups, which punish with death their political opponents. The film's characters are specially trained for the purpose young people, members of one such combat group. Against the background of their risky task, in the execution of which they have to pay with their own lives, every facet of their characters stands out. Faced with death they reveal their intimate worlds, their unrealized youthful impulses that have been sacrificed in the name of commands, disparate from the Ten Christian Commandments.
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The Prince
Title: The Prince
Character: Knyaz Svetoslav
Released: May 29, 1970
Type: Movie
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 joint resistance to the Turkish conquest. Terter lives through a great personal tragedy. He becomes estranged from his dearest person, Mariya, who is too weak to join him on the difficult road of his choice. (written by Georgi Djulgerov)
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The First Courier
Title: The First Courier
Character: Ivan Zagubanski
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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 bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
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The Sea
Title: The Sea
Character: Toni
Released: June 23, 1967
Type: Movie
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. They move on - but in different direction...
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The Inspector and the Night
Title: The Inspector and the Night
Character: Tom
Released: December 16, 1963
Type: Movie
A classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov
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The Traces Remain
Title: The Traces Remain
Character: Veselin
Released: September 3, 1956
Type: Movie
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 feel like heroes.