Valentin Ganev

Valentin Ganev

Born: April 7, 1956
in Ruse, Bulgaria
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Valentin Atanassov Ganev ( born April 7, 1956) is a Bulgarian theatre and film actor and theatre director.

Movies for Valentin Ganev...

Luka
Title: Luka
Character: Commander Gor
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in the legendary Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience-endurance-sacrifice.
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Title: Белези
Character: Stoyan
Released: February 22, 2021
Type: TV
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Sister
Title: Sister
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
A small town in present-day Bulgaria. A mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The dreamy and distracted younger daughter often invents stories in order to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in the trap of her own lies and destroys her older sister's well-ordered materialistic world. Meanwhile, the two sisters find out the truth about their mother
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Living Chimneys
Title: Living Chimneys
Released: September 29, 2018
Type: Movie
In the old houses of a mountain village, intellectuals from the capital city have settled down. One of the settlers, a notorious bohemian and joker, left a funeral screenplay and video recordings directing his farewell to life. Nobody is aware that he has purchased a burial plot in the cemetery with a rock underneath it. While building his tomb, his confessions, memories and jokes are flowing from the improvised film shows at the local pub and the mourning ceremony evolves into a bash.
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Enemies
Title: Enemies
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of Bulgarian soldiers go on a mission during the Balkan War.
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Bubblegum
Title: Bubblegum
Character: Ganev
Released: December 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Kalin (35) is a talented advertising specialist, weary of life. Bilyana (35) is a free spirit, still uncertain of what she wants. They grew up in Socialist Bulgaria, where they were part of a mad group of friends, for whom every day was a different adventure. Childlike, they had a pact to get married. The two of them meet 25 years later.
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Title: Absentia
Character: Father Demotses
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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King of the Belgians
Title: King of the Belgians
Character: Kerim Bulut
Released: November 30, 2016
Type: Movie
The King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.
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Monkey
Title: Monkey
Character: Wychowawca
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Some time between childhood and adulthood, when life is a string of easy decisions, the world of half-sisters Iva and Maya is about to change drastically. They would have to find answers to questions grown-ups don’t even dare to ask. Can the two teenagers make decisions of life and death?
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Boyka: Undisputed IV
Title: Boyka: Undisputed IV
Character: Warden
Released: August 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude.
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For Eva
Title: For Eva
Character: The Doctor
Released: July 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A young girl, suffering from a rare form of amnesia, wakes up every morning in an unknown place - her home. Her memories fade away when she falls asleep and the only thing that gives her strength to continue in life is a letter she writes to herself every evening. Will this be enough for her to let close a complete stranger, who will cure her from the feeling of loneliness?
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The Petrov File
Title: The Petrov File
Character: Vladimir
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
In the late 1980s, stage actor Alexander Petrov is banned from theatre without any apparent reason. When he reappears, after the demise of the Communist regime, he discovers that he had been denounced by the one man he admired most, his master and friend. He discovers this fact at the very moment that he is called upon to deliver a funeral eulogy for the man. Devastated, Petrov declares that he is retiring from public life. That’s when Markov offers his help. An old acquaintance, Markov was a former director of the secret service, who has become a successful businessman. Now, in the mid-1990s, the country is wracked by unretstrained capitalism, along with violence and gang wars. Markov, an admirer of Petrov’s stage talents, offers to make him the leader of a new political party aiming at rescuing the country. Can this work? Is Markov the right man to be allied with? Petrov must make a fateful decision.
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The Throwaways
Title: The Throwaways
Character: Bulgarian Official
Released: January 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison. Agreeing on the condition that he can form his own team, he puts together a group of "throwaways" - the people deemed expendable and seemingly the worst in the organization.
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Viking Quest
Title: Viking Quest
Character: Druid
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Erick, a young Viking warrior, joins forces with a rival clan in order to rescue a kidnapped princess from the great Midgard Serpent. It's a perilous task with a risk far greater than merely their own lives; by rescuing the princess, they might cause Ragnarök - the end of the world.
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Taken: The Search for Sophie Parker
Title: Taken: The Search for Sophie Parker
Character: Chief Mirov
Released: September 21, 2013
Type: Movie
After her daughter is abducted in Russia, an NYPD detective goes out of her way to find and save her.
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El Gringo
Title: El Gringo
Character: Deputy Chief Logan
Released: May 10, 2012
Type: Movie
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
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The Way Back
Title: The Way Back
Character: Guard #2
Released: November 22, 2010
Type: Movie
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
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Undisputed III: Redemption
Title: Undisputed III: Redemption
Character: Warden Markov
Released: May 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.
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Double Identity
Title: Double Identity
Character: Ludvik Seifert
Released: December 18, 2009
Type: Movie
In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
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The Fourth Kind
Title: The Fourth Kind
Character: Nome Resident
Released: November 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
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Ninja
Title: Ninja
Character: Klimitov
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.
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The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake
Title: The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake
Character: Sayif
Released: January 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Sir Francis Drake goes on a quest to find the legendary Tree of Life, battling the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, sorceress and his bitter nemesis Captain Don Sandovate on the way.
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Hindemidth
Title: Hindemidth
Released: November 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Two very similar families are settling in two identical houses in a new fashionable neighborhood built near a complex of panel-apartment buildings. The couples are in their forties. The husbands are moderate professionals and the wives are housewives without children and with firmly fixed habits. Step by step they find out how similar they are and step by step they come to hate each other. The more they strive to be different and the more they fail, the stronger their malice and their lust to harm each other grow.
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The Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon
Title: The Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon
Character: Prince Georgiev
Released: October 28, 2008
Type: Movie
At last! The newly crowned King of Denmark, Edward, and his wife and Queen, Dr. Paige Morgan, find time to fly to Belavia for their secret honeymoon. What better way to spend the Christmas holidays than at a fabulous ski resort? But as they take a tour of Belavia's natural beauty, Eddie and Paige discover that the evil Prime Minister Polonius has given orders to bulldoze the precious forests - to drill for oil. Then, the couple bump into Paige's ex-boyfriend, Scott. Eddie immediately becomes jealous - furthermore he suspects Scott cannot be trusted. Paige and Eddie must do everything they can to save the forest, even if it means putting aside their honeymoon.
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Train
Title: Train
Character: Conductor Vasyl
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: Movie
After a night of wild partying and missing their train, the group of students is invited to board another which happens to be heading their way. Once on board, members of the team begin to go missing, and their would-be saviors claim to have no idea what could have happened to them... When they discover the truth, it is too late to escape and they must fight for their lives against their captors to put an end to their ride to hell.
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The Killing Grounds
Title: The Killing Grounds
Character: Hainrich
Released: July 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of a violent gang war, the police commissioner must find who is killing young children before the next innocent victim dies.
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The Abandoned
Title: The Abandoned
Character: Andrei Misharin / Kolya Kaidavosky
Released: September 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
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Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
Title: Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
Character: Warden Markov
Released: April 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This time he is not fighting for a title, he is fighting for his life!
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Magma: Volcanic Disaster
Title: Magma: Volcanic Disaster
Character: Oskar Valenteen
Released: January 21, 2006
Type: Movie
When a volcano expert becomes convinced that a cataclysmic natural disaster is about to unfold, a volcanologist Professor John Shepherd and his graduate students believes that recent unexplainable volcanic activity as all of the volcanoes in the world are going to erupt and kill every living thing on the planet! They try to convince the government that their theory is true not a joke while also trying to figure out how to stop it before time runs out!
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Rezervat za rozovi pelikani
Title: Rezervat za rozovi pelikani
Character: Research Fellow
Released: August 29, 2004
Type: Movie
The film is a children comedy about six fat boys who experience great adventures while fighting hunger. They realize what friendship means and finally turn into little men.
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Nature Unleashed:  Avalanche
Title: Nature Unleashed: Avalanche
Character: Alex Rogov
Released: August 6, 2004
Type: Movie
It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia, kissed by clouds, the top of the world. A lonely, forbidding place, it's home to THOM CUSSLER and brother, JOCK, a pair of transplanted westerners seeking their fortune in Russia's new capitalist economy. They run a hard-luck snowmobile tour business that takes adventurous winter tourists up the mountains to experience the ultimate extreme winter thrill. During one such excursion, a massive ledge of snow at the top of the ridge suddenly collapses and an avalanche crashes down! Only the quick thinking and expert driving of Thom and Jock saves them. The tiny village of Dubroz, nestled far below, is not so lucky. Avalanche sirens wail, but the panicked villagers barely have time to act as the avalanche crashes down! A wall of snow smashes into one end of the village, blasting-in windows, collapsing and burying buildings... Written by GFT Entertainment
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In Hell
Title: In Hell
Character: Bolt
Released: November 24, 2003
Type: Movie
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
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Dark Descent
Title: Dark Descent
Character: Dr. Petrov
Released: August 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it was not an accident. He becomes caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation, and fights to stay alive and uncover the truth.
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The Grey Zone
Title: The Grey Zone
Character: Torturer
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
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Project: Human Weapon
Title: Project: Human Weapon
Character: Dr. Slovak Janko
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Griffin Michael is the only survivor of a top-secret C.I.A. program that raised five people to become superweapons—human killing machines. Griffin has been trained to use his mind as a weapon: with a small brain impulse he can move objects hundreds of times his own weight, and can kill with a single thought. Now he is about to be released from the remote secret facility where he has been raised, and unleashed on an unsuspecting world...
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East/West
Title: East/West
Character: Volodya Petrov
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
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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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The Goat Horn
Title: The Goat Horn
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Middle Ages: Bulgaria is under the Ottoman Empire. Somewhere, far in the mountains, goatherd Karaivan lives with his wife and little daughter, Mariya. One day Turks burst into the house and rape the woman before the eyes of the daughter and husband. After the rape, she is killed by a raper and the girl is shocked into growing dumb. From this moment on, Karaivan is obsessed with the sole thought of taking revenge. He moves with his daughter into a cave high in the mountains, raises her as if she is a boy, trains her to fight and draw a bow. Deep in her heart, the girl has no hatred, but a craving for love. She meets a young Muslim shepherd and falls in love. The father is unable to swallow it and kills the young man.
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The Berlin Conspiracy
Title: The Berlin Conspiracy
Character: Specht
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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Scar-Free
Title: Scar-Free
Character: Yevgeni
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This is a film about a famous Bulgarian wrestler who is forced by the police authorities to work for them. We see a lonely man, tortured by his consciousness, who dies without single scratch.
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Cry for Help
Title: Cry for Help
Character: Германски турист
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: Movie
20-year-old Georgi was adopted as a child. The family falls apart though and he ends up in a youth detention center. When released, he comes to face people's selfishness and disregard, He begins to steal things. The investigator working on his case talks to his adopted parents, his girlfriend and friends. Hiding from the police, Georgi ends up in a small town at the Black sea coast. He falls in love with his friend's sister Yana. Yet again, he finds no sympathy and understanding. He steals again. The investigator wants to help him but Georgi has given up all hope. He wants to commit suicide. Yana is the last spark of hope to bring him back to life.
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Question of Time
Title: Question of Time
Released: October 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A famous stage and screen actor has been invited for an interview on 'Question Time', a popular Bulgarian TV program. He has fought heroically in the anti-fascist resistance and at present his talent is bringing him artistic satisfaction and fame. His personal life also seems to be trouble-free. After the end of Sunday program, however, he learns that he is terminally ill with leukemia. The prospect of death destroys his all too comfortable illusions and turns his ideas of life upside down. His love for a provincial actress, from whom he has broken away in the past, is rekindled. Now he needs a closer relationship with his only son, who owes many of his complexes to the egotism of his father. The deceptive harmony between genuine and pseudo art in his career gets disturbed. The protagonist devotes the last few month of his life to the staging of a play which has been rejected in the past, and which he has not had the courage to defend.
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The Black Swans
Title: The Black Swans
Released: September 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Violetta is a ballerina in a provincial town. She is the daughter of an opera singer and a violinist. The years pass in anticipation of the big role, and the men she meets do not understand her and she remains alone. When the chance finally comes - to play the role of Odette, Violetta realises she has failed.
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The Hat
Title: The Hat
Released: March 19, 1981
Type: Movie
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The Clown and the Kids
Title: The Clown and the Kids
Released: June 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A small circus troupe wants to perform for the children in a small Eastern European town, but is prevented from doing so by the evil town boss. The circus' clown and his colleagues come up with a plan to defeat the boss and his men and put on a show for the kids.