Katya Paskaleva

Katya Paskaleva

Born: September 18, 1945
Died: July 23, 2002
in Petrich, Bulgaria
From Wikipedia

Katya Paskaleva (Bulgarian: Катя Паскалева) was a Bulgarian film and stage actress, born in 1945, deceased in 2002.

She is best known for her performance as Maria in the Bulgarian film classic The Goat Horn (1972), for which she gained a broad critical acclaim. Paskaleva is also known for her roles in the films The End of the Song (1971), Villa Zone (1975), Matriarchy (1977), Elegy (1982), Eve on the Third Floor (1987) as well as her numerous notable appearances on the stages of the Sofia Municipal Theatre and the Satirical Theatre “Aleko Konstantinov”.

Movies for Katya Paskaleva...

The Forbidden Fruit
Title: The Forbidden Fruit
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.
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Live Dangerously
Title: Live Dangerously
Character: Valeri's Mother
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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Az grafinyata
Title: Az grafinyata
Character: Maria
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
A Bulgarian "Drugstore Cowboy." A teenage girl's rebellion through drugs becomes a metaphor for the struggle between individuality and totalitarianism. Amidst the political upheaval of 1968, Sybilla (the "Countess") is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists efforts to remold her personality. Based on a true story.
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Monday Morning
Title: Monday Morning
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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Chicho Krastnik
Title: Chicho Krastnik
Released: May 2, 1988
Type: Movie
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Eva on the Third Floor
Title: Eva on the Third Floor
Character: Naumova
Released: May 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Gynecology clinic in Sofia, Bulgaria. On one of the floors several women are waiting for their turn to get an abortion. And on the other floor, four older women struggle to preserve the life they carry. Toni must decide whether to give birth to a child who will not have a father.
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This Fine Mature Age
Title: This Fine Mature Age
Character: Malina
Released: July 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An older man of high social standing begins to understand that he's not as perfect as he believed.
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The Poet and The Devil
Title: The Poet and The Devil
Character: The Lady
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Fictional film about Hristo Smirnenski's life before his death of tuberculosis at 27...
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The Biggest Sin
Title: The Biggest Sin
Character: Diana, Abrashev's wife
Released: September 13, 1982
Type: Movie
In the last moments of his life, the writer turns over episodes from his past. He finds the cause of another death, ahead of the last breath.
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Boomerang
Title: Boomerang
Released: March 5, 1979
Type: Movie
The last student days before the redistribution. The linguist must go to a remote village to work as a teacher. The outlook is not good at all for the ambitious man who published his own story and is searching for the realization of a career in literature. Mihail is looking for the possibility that will let him in Sofia. He is from countryside; his diploma is not of the highest merit; his career as an author is still not established. He meets by chance a famous writer. Soon the attitude of Mihail towards the writer becomes colder,, since he understands that he was used as an object of description. Mihail sees the situation as a deal - he offers "material" for the writer's novel for a note, needed for him to stay in Sofia. The writer's uncompromising nature breaks the deal and Mihail is traveling to the village or maybe to himself.
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Sunstroke
Title: Sunstroke
Character: Snezha
Released: November 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Near a large Bulgarian city begins the construction of a large factory. There is a fertile land in close by. Prof. Dimov, Director of the Environment Protection Institute has to submit his official approval for the civil works to begin. He and his co-worker Prof. Radev refuse.
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Stars in Her Hair, Tears in Her Eyes
Title: Stars in Her Hair, Tears in Her Eyes
Character: Liza Strezova
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
This is a film about a traveling theatrical group in the beginning of 20th century. The itinerant troupe arrives in the little town, comprising several families, an eccentric student, an anarchist, all united by their love for theatre. The theatricals of 'Othello' are pending. All of a sudden, the performer of Desdemona falls ill. The local woman teacher plays in her stead. She makes a success and joins the troupe. The young woman travels with them along the dusty country roads and never gives up. Step by step she becomes a very good actress and assumes the leading of the group through its complex life. United by their common fate, the actors go through the joys and disappointments of their pioneering educative mission together.
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Matriarchy
Title: Matriarchy
Released: March 25, 1977
Type: Movie
The film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a group of women who have been left alone in their 'female kingdom' - a village deserted by its entire men folk.
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Villa Zone
Title: Villa Zone
Character: Stefka
Released: May 30, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Memory
Title: Memory
Character: The Mother
Released: April 19, 1974
Type: Movie
The days of antifascist fight are over. In an orphanage for gifted children lives Milcho. The music helps him to escape from the real world to the world of memories. He remembers the days that the police officer arrested his mother for hiding a fugitive. A bright mark has left people that Milcho met, looking for his mother: the good old musician, the gypsy Shukri - raw natural talent, the beautiful Mila, and the Poet. They help Milcho to live through his pain. A piano concert of Brahms is playing by the young artist.
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Ivan Kondarev
Title: Ivan Kondarev
Character: Hristina Vlaeva
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: Sanka
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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The White Odyssey
Title: The White Odyssey
Character: Milka
Released: March 24, 1973
Type: Movie
During World War 2, four soldiers are trapped between a harsh winter and the enemy. They need food and shelter, but this comes at the expense of their position. With no where else to turn, they begin an Odyssey through the mountains.
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Men Without Work
Title: Men Without Work
Character: Hristina
Released: February 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A road-building team is forced to stay idle for a couple of days since the asphalt has not been delivered.
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The Great Victory
Title: The Great Victory
Released: February 9, 1973
Type: Movie
The grand auto-tour of Bulgaria begins. Excellent drivers take part in it. The Bonev brothers are in the Bulgarian team. They have decided to win this race no matter what. With great efforts, they manage to get ahead from the rest. An unexpected problem arises - some rocks nave fallen on the road. The confident drivers manage to avoid the crash closely. Their road to victory is open. However, a feeling of responsibility arises. There will be accidents for sure. The brothers stay at he crash site to warn the other.
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The Goat Horn
Title: The Goat Horn
Character: Maria
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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End of the Song
Title: End of the Song
Character: Neyme
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: Movie
A tragic love story set in the Rhodope mountains.
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Detour
Title: Detour
Character: Vera
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
On the road one day two people meet again after seventeen years. They'd had a brief, burning affair seventeen years earlier, in their idealistic youth. That had been just after the war, the time of great enthusiasms and faith in the future. Wishing to dedicate themselves to the new society they had chosen to renounced personal happiness, considering their love as an impermissible sidetrack from the requirements of the time.