Hristo Shopov

Hristo Shopov

Born: January 4, 1964
in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Hristo Naumov Shopov (Bulgarian: Христо Наумов Шопов) (born January 4, 1964 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.

He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with Dishay, choveche (Breathe, Little Man!). His body of work includes many Bulgarian films such as Vchera (Yesterday) and Sledvay me (Follow Me). He has also appeared in several low-budget US film productions including Phantom Force, Target of Opportunity and Alien Hunter. In his homeland, he is best known for his role in the movie Vchera, which became a symbol of several generations. The movie tells the story of young Bulgarian people studying in an English college during Communist rule.

Mary Soan, an assistant director of the film I Am David, suggested that he would be suited for the role of Pilate to Shaila Rubin, who was casting the film. After Hristo and Gibson had a brief conversation, Hristo was given the part. Shopov also played the role of Pontius Pilate in the 2006 film The Inquiry, which also cast Max von Sydow as Emperor Tiberius.

He recently played the Russian premier in the upcoming Command Performance starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren.

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Movies for Hristo Shopov...

To Bury a Dragon
Title: To Bury a Dragon
Released: June 10, 2023
Type: Movie
In a small Bulgarian town an aging homophobic wood-carver receives a tragic news which awakens his buried shame and anger.
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In the Heart of the Machine
Title: In the Heart of the Machine
Character: Colonel Radoev
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct.
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Title: South Wind
Character: Dimitar
Released: January 19, 2020
Type: TV
A young member of a gang in Belgrade puts his family in danger when he angers a mafia boss.
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South Wind
Title: South Wind
Character: Dimitar
Released: October 23, 2018
Type: Movie
A story about Petar Maraš, a Belgrade criminal in his late twenties, whose one reckless move causes an avalanche of events that will greatly affect the lives of those around him.
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Karbala
Title: Karbala
Character: Getow
Released: September 8, 2015
Type: Movie
On 3 April 2004, during the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, launched an insurgency in the Polish zone. The Poles, together with Bulgarian soldiers and Iraqi police, were given the task of defending City Hall, led by Lieutenant colonel Grzegorz Kaliciak. The clash developed into the biggest Polish engagement since World War II. Not a single allied soldier died, although about 80 insurgents were killed in a counter-attack.
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The Petrov File
Title: The Petrov File
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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Title: Fourth Estate
Character: Pavel Troianov
Released: September 29, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Barabbas
Character: Kedar
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: TV
Billy Zane stars as Barabbas--the man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Based on the Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel by Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas is a story rooted in the Bible which will come to life on REELZ as a four-hour miniseries and tells the ultimate story of redemption. Barabbas was shot on location in Tunisia and is directed by Emmy Award winner Roger Young.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Kedar
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus Christ.
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Title: После школы
Character: Mikhail
Released: November 16, 2012
Type: TV
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General della Rovere
Title: General della Rovere
Character: Col. Muller
Released: October 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Giovanni Bertone a former colonel, is a fraudster who extorts money from the families of the Nazi-Fascist prisoners. He promises them their freedom. Discovered by Colonel Muller he is offered a pact: to save his life, he must go to Milan with a false identity to discover the members belonging to the Resistance.
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Love.net
Title: Love.net
Character: Filip Bogatev
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online.
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HDSP: Hunting Down Small Predators
Title: HDSP: Hunting Down Small Predators
Character: Chakyra
Released: September 17, 2010
Type: Movie
A young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down. A story about love and despair, hope and disillusionment, revenge and revelation.
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Undisputed III: Redemption
Title: Undisputed III: Redemption
Character: Warden Kuss
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: Serik
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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Barbarossa
Title: Barbarossa
Character: Rinaldo di Dassel
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Year 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka "Barbarossa. His dream is to conquer also the lands in the Center and in the South so as to revive the Empire that was once of the one Charles Magno.But in the North a young man from Milan has formed an army of 900 young men coming from different cities: the "company of death". This young man's name is Alberto Da Giussano. His dream is to defeat the Emperor and to give back freedom to the Northern lands.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: President Petrov
Released: July 18, 2009
Type: Movie
When the Russian Premier is taken hostage at a rock concert in Moscow, it's up to a drummer, an ex-biker, to save him.
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Resolution 819
Title: Resolution 819
Character: Momcilo Draganovic
Released: October 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventually bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the International Criminal Court. Benoît Magimel stars as Jacques Calvez, a man of integrity who refuses to let politicians, mobsters or bureaucrats stand in his way. He receives valuable help in his quest from Lherbier (Hippolyte Girardot), a French secret service agent, and above all from beautiful forensic anthropologist Clara Gorska (Karolina Gruszka)
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Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore
Title: Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore
Character: Colonnello Euerbach
Released: January 25, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Character: Ponzio Pilato
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: TV
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The Final Inquiry
Title: The Final Inquiry
Character: Ponzio Pilato
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: Movie
It is the year 33 of the Vulgar Era. The Emperor Tiberius is troubled by strange phenomena, an earthquake and the sky turning black as an eclipse. His astrologers give him fair warning: their omens indicate that the world is in the throes of a great upheaval and that old gods have been annihilated. A new kingdom is about to rise in the East. The Emperor calls Tito Valerio Tauro, the most prominent
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The Lark Farm
Title: The Lark Farm
Character: Isman
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
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Dragon Dynasty
Title: Dragon Dynasty
Character: King Agostino
Released: July 22, 2006
Type: Movie
A group of European explorers returning from China battle a pair of dragons sent by an evil wizard intent on keeping his land a secret.
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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Title: Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Character: Julian Kordek
Released: August 15, 2005
Type: Movie
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
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Target of Opportunity
Title: Target of Opportunity
Character: Major Belov
Released: July 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.
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Title: Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Character: Julian Kordek
Released: April 18, 2005
Type: TV
A biography of Karol Wojtyła, later known as Pope John Paul II, beginning in 1939 when Karol was only 19 years old and ending at the Papal conclave, October 1978 that made him Pope.
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The Passion of the Christ
Title: The Passion of the Christ
Character: Poncio Pilato
Released: February 25, 2004
Type: Movie
A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
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Chechnya
Title: Chechnya
Character: Chechen General
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Radio Radicale journalist Antonio Russo
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I Am David
Title: I Am David
Character: The Man
Released: December 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.
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Alien Hunter
Title: Alien Hunter
Character: Navigator Petrenko
Released: July 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
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Dragon Fighter
Title: Dragon Fighter
Character: Capt. Sergei Petrov
Released: January 4, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly dies and then a rhino-sized dragon flies overhead, the knights follow right behind, vowing to kill the creature.
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Interceptor Force 2
Title: Interceptor Force 2
Character: Gorshkov
Released: November 30, 2002
Type: Movie
In the not too distant future a new team of specially trained government soldiers called an Interception Team contend with the latest hostile alien encounter. When an alien scout ship crashes in eastern Russia, Sean Lambert and his elite force are dispatched to investigate. They come face-to-face with a seemingly invincible seven-foot tall, shape shifting foe hell-bent on blowing up a Russian nuclear power plant in an effort to destroy mankind through a nuclear winter. The stakes become personal when the alien discovers it was Lambert who killed its mate four years ago (Interceptor Force). A major battle ensues as the Interceptor Team look to save the Earth from alien annihilation.
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Dark Descent
Title: Dark Descent
Character: Digger
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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Shark Hunter
Title: Shark Hunter
Character: Justin French
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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Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Title: Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Character: Chief du Train
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Terrorists hold a group of people hostage during a Millenium Eve party aboard the Orient Express. Only an action movie star and a gymnast can save them.
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The Grey Zone
Title: The Grey Zone
Character: Halivni
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: Bulgarian Officer
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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City of Fear
Title: City of Fear
Character: Vasyl
Released: April 20, 2000
Type: Movie
When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception.
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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 Love Summer of a Schlep
Title: The Love Summer of a Schlep
Character: Bratetza
Released: May 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Four friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.
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Margarit and Margarita
Title: Margarit and Margarita
Character: Margarit
Released: December 4, 1989
Type: Movie
A pair of rebellious high school students get thrown out of home and school, then drift from job to job. Bulgaria's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990
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Test '88
Title: Test '88
Released: April 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Night on the outskirts of a big city. Several dump trucks are chasing random people on the road at high speed. They threaten to crush them. What makes these drivers so violent? The investigator puts them before the court on their own conscience. They should answer the question: "am I a good person?"
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Yesterday
Title: Yesterday
Character: Ivan
Released: January 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.