Ivan Barnev

Ivan Barnev

Born: July 15, 1973
in Dobrich, Bulgaria

Movies for Ivan Barnev...

Because I Love Bad Weather
Title: Because I Love Bad Weather
Character: Radio host
Released: April 5, 2024
Type: Movie
On a rainy spring day, Irina returns to the seaside town where she used to spend the summer holidays as a child. There she meets Boris, whom she has not seen for 20 years. The two set out to rediscover the past, which may change their future.
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Interview in The Womb of The Whale
Title: Interview in The Womb of The Whale
Character: Medical Assistant
Released: March 15, 2024
Type: Movie
A paramedic in a psychiatric clinic routinely performs duties related to three patients with severe mental disorders. Taking care of them on a daily basis, the paramedic imperceptibly begins to empathize with their emotions. Frightened by what he sees, he begins to question his own sanity...
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Blaga's Lessons
Title: Blaga's Lessons
Character: Police Detective
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
Blaga is a seventy-year-old recently widowed former teacher and a woman of firm morals. When telephone scammers con her out of the money that she had saved for her husband’s grave, her moral compass slowly begins to lose its bearings…
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Dyad
Title: Dyad
Character: Mr. Sirakov
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Smart, angry, self-reliant Dida (15) will stop at nothing to achieve a single tangible goal – to buy a plane ticket so she can join her estranged mother in the United States.
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The Scent of Linden
Title: The Scent of Linden
Character: Stefan
Released: February 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Stefan arrives in Memphis and moves in with Dima and Georgi, whose house is a hotel for immigrants. They sway Stefan to stay in town, although Chicago is a distant dream. He meets Rada. A fight breaks out and he must leave. He appreciates more of his community and returns on the Day of Atonement. They remain stronger together, than apart.
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Vasil
Title: Vasil
Character: Vasil
Released: October 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Vasil is a Bulgarian immigrant who lives on the street in Spain. Intelligent and charismatic, he has an amazing talent for chess and bridge, so much so, in fact, that despite being homeless, he manages to make a name for himself in an exclusive and prestigious club in the city.
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The Art of Falling
Title: The Art of Falling
Released: September 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Bori (17) refuses to be harassed by the boys. Her artistic, but unstable mother does not give her the support she needs. Her caring grandfather enrolls her in a judo school. There, she realizes that before beating others, one must win the battles within oneself.
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Title: The Hunt for Salamander
Released: February 26, 2021
Type: TV
A detective and his ex-wife, a detective herself, come close on the occasion of two weird cases...
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Blessed Are the Meek
Title: Blessed Are the Meek
Character: Ivan
Released: September 27, 2020
Type: Movie
After his mother's death, Ivo, a 13 year old boy, develops super sensitivity along with his big imagination and difficult character. He runs away from his home and forms a friendship with the unemployed Ivan, who turns into his guardian angel.
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Pavel
Released: August 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Ivanka. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cellphone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to try to contact his wife. His son Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way… Following the internationally successful The Lesson and Glory, Grozeva and Valchanov return with an intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us. As the picture slowly gathers momentum, its story unfolds many of the carefully arranged absurd or comic situations typical for the Bulgarian filmmaking duo.
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Rounds
Title: Rounds
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
One night – seemingly just like any other. Two police officers find the body of the well-known drug addict Lazar near the railroad tracks in Sofia. This is how the night of 9 November, 2019 begins – 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the regime change in Bulgaria. Three teams of police officers are patrolling the streets of Sofia, doing their job as they believe is right, while facing the challenges posed by contemporary Bulgarian reality.
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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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8' 19
Title: 8' 19"
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us. That's what it takes for the light to travel from there to here. And then the darkness comes… But the theme of this Apocalypse is not necessarily going to be expressed through a global cataclysm, horsemen of the apocalypse, angels of death, fire and destruction. It will rather be shown as something very personal, intimate and almost silent.
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Directions
Title: Directions
Character: Vlado
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A road movie set in present day Bulgaria, a country remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left. At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a cab to make ends meet, discovers the bribe he will have to pay to get a loan has doubled. The ethics board that reviewed his complaint about extortion now wants its share of the action. At his wit's end, he shoots the banker and then himself. The incident sparks national debate on talk radio about how despair has taken over civil society. Meanwhile, six taxi drivers and their passengers move through the night, each in hope of finding a brighter way forward.
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Block
Title: Block
Character: Plamen Stoichkov
Released: October 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Lilly steals the keys of her new teacher and in an act of revenge trashes his home. She is surprised by his blind and ill-tempered mother and Lilly lies that she is in fact his fiancée. This makes the mother very happy and eventually, Lilly finds herself bound to visit her regularly.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Character: The mini bus driver
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A couple and their teenage son eke out a living on a hilltop, doing the laundry for local hotels, despite the intermittent water supply. Their simple life is overturned by the arrival of a father-and-daughter team of diviner and well-digger, who promise to bring an end to this precarious existence by finding a source on their arid hill. But ultimately, these newcomers quench a thirst far greater than than the simple need for water.
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The Lesson
Title: The Lesson
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: Movie
An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.
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Sneakers
Title: Sneakers
Character: Ivo
Released: June 26, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a Summer shared by six young people. It all begins with their escapes from the bleak and dreary City. Each one of them escapes East of Hell... to the point farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and pristine beach. The clean beach brings them together and reopens the prospective of hope to them all. But is such an escape at all possible? Written by Anonymous (IMDb.com)
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Footsteps in the Sand
Title: Footsteps in the Sand
Character: Slavi
Released: July 1, 2010
Type: Movie
At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi takes up drinking and gets into trouble with the Bulgarian militia (police) because of his family background. This is when he decides to defect to the West. After staying at a refugee camp in Austria and another desperate love, he sets out to the United States. There Slavi makes some new friends who help him buy a truck. He hits the roads of America, where he comes across an Indian who sells him an arrow. The vender tells him this amulet will bring his love back. Eventually, Slavi comes back to Bulgaria, where communism has collapsed. His beloved Nelly lives alone with her daughter. One day Slavi meets her again...
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The Goat
Title: The Goat
Character: Yona
Released: March 5, 2009
Type: Movie
The trumpet player, Jonah, moves into the remains of his grandfather's house near where the treasure is hidden. In a tunnel under the house he finds a stone with a bird engraved on it and a map with an inscription in Arabic: "To have a house of gold, fall onto the sky and find the twin!" A copy of the same map brings Rumba and Emma to the same place. Rumba is Bulgarian and a passionate treasure-hunter. His wife is American and studies Bulgarian folklore as a way to fight globalization. Rumba wants to buy Jonah's property so he can find the treasure.
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Train
Title: Train
Character: Gregor
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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I Served the King of England
Title: I Served the King of England
Character: Jan Dítě
Released: January 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.
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Lady Zee
Title: Lady Zee
Character: Nayden Petkov
Released: April 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
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Kalabush
Title: Kalabush
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
An illegal immigrant arrives in Cyprus, thinking he is in Italy. A story evolves around him, involving people who live in the margins society, and a veil of hypocrisy is created.
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Shark Hunter
Title: Shark Hunter
Character: Dirt Worker #2
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. The scientists are wrong. In the darkness of the deep, an underwater research station has been viciously destroyed. Now a tough team of daring divers led by Spencer Northcutt [Antonio Sabato Jr. "Melrose Place"] is taking an experimental sub to war. It's killer instinct vs. sophisticated technology, deadly jaws vs. harpoon-tipped torpedoes, mega-shark vs. modern man is a thrilling extreme deep sea fight to the death.
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Oxymoron of Eternity
Title: Oxymoron of Eternity
Character: Logos
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The film is dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges, one of the giants of the written word of the 20th century. Borrowed and altered from the work of Borges and others, from world history and literature - Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the (anti)utopian new world, the "civilization of the spectacle.", they intertwine with Borges's theories of the cyclicality of time and the infinity of the universe.
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Leaf, torn away
Title: Leaf, torn away
Character: Limi
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Vesa, a 16-year old Bulgarian girl, cannot speak. A fortune-teller predicts that the girl will convalesce if somebody sacrifices their life for her. The fortune-teller's mentally challenged nephew, who comes to hear the prophecy, follows the girl.