Hristo Garbov

Acting

Hristo Garbov

Born 1957-09-13 · Варна, Народна Република България

Acting credits

The Color of the Chameleon poster
6.7

In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters.

The Color of the Chameleon

2013

No artwork available
8.0

It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man's dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. The film helps us to understand and forgive them.

Fate as a Rat

2001

The Rebel of L. poster
8.0

On the night of graduation prom the credit to the English Language School, Loris tries to escape to the West, but he is betrayed and captured. Charged with political motivation, Loris is sentenced. The year is 1986. The slogan written in red letters onto the wall in the prison is: If you don't know - we will teach you, if you can't - we will show you how, if you don't want to - we will force you. It is put into practice. Torture, cynicism and physical violence turn the talented young man into an impassive and coldblooded observer. The Berlin wall is falling. Loris is granted an amnesty. Already free, he is alienated and indifferent to the world. In his desperate escape from reality Loris revenges for his ruined life and takes the road to his own destruction. But he meets love. Loris tries to find salvation in yet another flight...

The Rebel of L.

2006

The Love Summer of a Schlep poster
7.0

Four friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.

The Love Summer of a Schlep

1990

Aurora poster
NR

Sofia, November 7, 1952. A replica of the cruiser Aurora parades along the yellow cobbles – a revolutionary symbol reduced to spectacle. In the shadow of the celebrations, Maria, the daughter of an industrialist condemned by the People’s Court, survives as a prostitute in a decaying bourgeois hotel. Her lover is Axinia, an official sculptor of the regime who creates ideological monuments while living in fear.

Aurora

2026

Running Dogs poster
9.0

This is a film about the fate of a group of students and their wondering to find their true place in life. Of course each of them tries to find his own way.

Running Dogs

1989

Следвай ме poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Следвай ме

2003

The Flying Machine poster
10.0

The wars of 1912-1913 pass as a distant echo in Dozhden, a small village in the Rhodopes. Overwhelmed by a dream to fly, the young shepherd Sirachko, the son of a skilled craftsman, set about building an aircraft.

The Flying Machine

1981

Wagner poster
8.5

Elena's job is working on the percussion press 'Wagner' of 1933. This is a tragic comedy about the absurdity of one day in life, in which her dream comes true.

Wagner

1998

The Black Swans poster
8.0

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.

The Black Swans

1984

Destiny poster
7.0

This is a film about old fashioned Bulgarian customs and moral rules. A pre-arranged marriage of two children is no obstacle to true love.

Destiny

1983

Rhapsody in White poster
7.0

This is a film about the fight against the terrible invincible enemy - the banality of life. Chekhovian provincial hopelessness will creep in, broken by sharp turns of Chaplin-esque humor. A bow to silent cinema and Chekhov.

Rhapsody in White

2002

Sasedkata poster
10.0

Dimka is a married young woman who has everything: a new house and a car. But she is unhappy. She meets Grigor, who is different from the others. He loves music. They ignore the material well-being and the opinion of others. But Dimka can't stand it and returns to her husband to live in her own way.

Sasedkata

1988

Something in the Air poster
8.0

Let us imagine isolation, fear, almost generic fear, and ancient, pervasive, self-generated. This fear becomes a system. The little man, forced, struggled to maintain his minimal right, the right to survive. But today, this crushed, squeezed, almost destroyed little man stands on the border, the one that separates— or unites—the old system and the new, the world of competition, where survival is precisely through profitability, profit. Then the little man becomes the hero, the model, the hero of this almost demonological thriller.

Something in the Air

1993

General della Rovere poster
7.4

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.

General della Rovere

2011

Silence poster
8.0

A young sculptor has been preparing his first exhibition for years. In the autumn of 1962 it becomes a fact. The show provokes a scandal in the society.

Silence

1991

Blind Saturday poster
7.0

In a small village where nothing has changed in the last few decades, a film crew arrives to shoot a historical drama. So, along with actors, producers, makeup artists and all the rest from the crew, a lot of hustle and bustle rushes into the sleepy village. It turns into a historical battle field itself. Everybody gets involved in the action - the young and the old alike get dressed into period costumes and armed with fake swords, suffer deadly wounds. The script also features an episode of ritualistic sacrifice and the offering is to be the village farmers' pride, a bull called Julius Caesar. The armies of defenders and enemies of the ritualistic animal clash at such an epic scale that it does feel like a massacre took place. As they say, blind Saturday is upon us and people do lose their minds...

Blind Saturday

1988

Don't Close Your Eyes poster
NR

The film follows the lives of Peter and Paul: two characters in different eras - Peter in the 1980s and Paul nowdays. Peter looses his sister in an accident and is banished from his home. In the present time Paul's sister has cancer and is fighting for her life. The two story lines intertwine and find a way trough God's providence to serve each other for good.

Don't Close Your Eyes

2025

Lift for Patients poster
NR

In hopes that they can help each other, a psychiatrist arranges for a suicidal young man and a terminally ill woman to meet.

Lift for Patients

2017

No artwork available
8.0

An investigator tries to solve a murder, her constant interviews with the main suspect cause the investigation to take many twists and turns as what is said is not always what is meant.

Investigation

2006

The Countess poster
8.5

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.

The Countess

1989

Starting from the Scratch poster
7.0

A delicate analysis of the movement of the human spirit and the love between men and women which has the power to reveal the beauty of the soul from the cradle to the grave.

Starting from the Scratch

1996