Stefan Danailov

Acting

Stefan Danailov

Born — Died

1942-12-09 — 2019-11-27

Place of birth

Sofia, Bulgaria

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

Reunion poster
6.5

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.

Reunion

2019

No artwork available
NR

After her father's death, young Frenchwoman Ellen Tibaud arrives in the Bulgarian village of Gradishte, led there by the mysterious founder of their family and renowned katar-bogomil, Robert Burg. All that he left behind was a parchment filled with incomprehensible signs and letters in the form of drawings. It is up to Ellen to decipher his message to his grandchildren and the world. In her search, she meets Father Peter and adventurer Victor, who has been searching for the manuscript of "The Sacred Book of the Bogomils" for some time. The relations that develop will change everyone.

The Glass River

2010

Staklenata reka poster
7.0

After the death of her father, the young French woman Ellen Thibaud arrives in the Bulgarian village of Gradishte. She was guided there by the mysterious founder of their family and famous Qatari Bogomil, Robert Burg.All she left behind was a parchment filled with incomprehensible signs and letters in the form of drawings. Ellen was obliged to decipher his message to her grandchildren and to the world. In her search, the young woman meets her father Peter and the adventurer Victor, who has been looking for the manuscript of The Secret Book of the Bogomils for some time. The relationships in this triangle will change each of the characters, but also forever remind them that man and human life stand above all.

Staklenata reka

2010

1990s · 7 titles

Crisis in the Kremlin poster
6.0

The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life.

Crisis in the Kremlin

1992

After the End of the World poster
4.2

Two friends (Katarina Didaskalou, Stefan Danailov) are separated when their village is divided by Communism, but they meet again 40 years later and begin having an affair.

After the End of the World

1998

Don Quixote Returns poster
7.0

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.

Don Quixote Returns

1997

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Morte di una ragazza perbene

1999

The Berlin Conspiracy poster
6.0

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.

The Berlin Conspiracy

1992

Iskam Amerika poster
8.0

A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father - a resistance hero.

Iskam Amerika

1991

No artwork available
8.0

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.

Live Dangerously

1990

1980s · 16 titles

Monday Morning poster
7.0

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.

Monday Morning

1988

Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor poster
7.9

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.

Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor

1985

Trap poster
10.0

At the heart of the story is a rural schoolteacher who, in 1944, leaves his native Bessarabia as the Red Army advances with heavy fighting. The gentle, cultured Sebastian Radu has every reason to avoid meeting the so-called liberators. And not just because one of the new regime’s first measures will be a background check, and Radu will have to write “noble” in the “social origin” field. The point is, our protagonist already has some experience dealing with representatives of the “new world.”

Trap

1989

No artwork available
9.0

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.

Crystals

1982

Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters poster
4.0

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.

Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters

1985

No artwork available
10.0

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.

Autumn Sun

1982

Queen of Turnovo poster
8.5

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.

Queen of Turnovo

1981

No artwork available
8.0

In a modern family, each of the adults is busy with their own work. The mother of the children writes a scientific paper. Their father is a television reporter and travels the world. Their grandmother invents gadgets for teaching at school. They don't have time for children in the family. At some point, the parents realize their mistake.

Get Out of My Light

1987

No artwork available
7.0

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.

Sky for All

1987

Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing poster
7.0

Part one of this two-part epic follows the life and deeds of Boris I – a strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders.

Boris I: Part 1 – The Baptizing

1985

No artwork available
9.0

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.

Aris

1983

Ladies' Choice poster
7.9

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.

Ladies' Choice

1980

No artwork available
10.0

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.

Protect the Small Animals

1988

Poem poster
9.0

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.

Poem

1986

24 Hours Rain poster
9.0

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.

24 Hours Rain

1982

Blood Remains poster
7.0

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.

Blood Remains

1980

1970s · 18 titles

Love poster
6.4

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.

Love

1972

The Central Warmth poster
7.9

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.

The Central Warmth

1978

Yuliya Vrevskaya poster
4.5

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.

Yuliya Vrevskaya

1977

There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather poster
6.7

A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent undercover to a big Western European company.

There Is Nothing Finer Than Bad Weather

1971

A Real Man poster
8.0

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.

A Real Man

1975

Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta! poster
NR

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.

Zeh ta, Radke, zeh ta!

1976

Houses Without Fences poster
8.0

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?

Houses Without Fences

1974

No artwork available
8.0

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.

Moments in a Matchbox

1979

Something Out of Nothing poster
7.5

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?

Something Out of Nothing

1979

Nona poster
6.0

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.

Nona

1973

The Weddings of Ioan Assen poster
8.3

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.

The Weddings of Ioan Assen

1975

The Soldier of the Supply Column poster
8.8

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

The Soldier of the Supply Column

1976

The Clairvoyant poster
NR

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...

The Clairvoyant

1976

The Prince poster
8.0

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)

The Prince

1970

Dance of the Samodivi poster
9.3

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.

Dance of the Samodivi

1976

No artwork available
8.0

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.

The Black Angels

1970

Dawn Over the Drava poster
8.0

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.

Dawn Over the Drava

1974

Ivan Kondarev poster
7.7

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.

Ivan Kondarev

1974

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits

The Octopus poster
7.8

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.

The Octopus

1984

Sofia Residents in Excess poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sofia Residents in Excess

2011

Glass Home poster
4.4

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.

Glass Home

2010

No artwork available
8.0

L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series.

L'avvocato delle donne

1997

No artwork available
NR

A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case.

In fondo al cuore

1998

Home for Our Children poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Home for Our Children

1986

The Family poster
NR

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.

The Family

2013

Press Center poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Press Center

1988

Every kilometer poster
6.7

The series consists of 26 episodes divided into two parts as 13 episodes - the first covering the period between 1923 and September 9, 1944, and the second one - after it. The main characters are Nikola Dejanov, played by Stefan Danailov and Dimitar Bombov, nicknamed "Mitko Bombata" (Mitko the Bomb), played by Grigor Vachkov. They are childhood friends, both communists, spies, and partisans.

Every kilometer

1969

Racket poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Racket

1997

Време за път poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Време за път

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The Five from the Labor Youth Union poster
9.0

The five from the Labor Youth Union are among the leaders of the youth wing of the Bulgarian Communist Party during World War II. Their aim was to replace legitimate power with the dictatorship of the proletariat. The five are involved in numerous armed clashes with the gendarmes.

The Five from the Labor Youth Union

1977