Naum Shopov

Acting

Naum Shopov

Born — Died

1930-07-27 — 2012-04-18

Place of birth

Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Soldiers of Freedom poster
4.4

The action of the epic film takes place in the second half of World War II. The plot focuses on the liberation of European countries from German occupation and the anti-fascist activities of the communist parties of these countries. After the victory at Stalingrad, a decisive turn occurred during the war. The main aim is the rallying of all patriotic forces, the creation of a national anti-fascist front in the struggling countries. The swift offensive of the Soviet troops, problems with the opening of a second front, major operations and the offensive of the Soviet army lead to the liberation of Europe. Rebellions are rising in different countries - such as the heroic uprising in Warsaw, in Slovenia, Bucharest and other cities. Brave heroes who performed immortal feats in the name of the happiness of mankind and freedom.

Soldiers of Freedom

1977

Locusts: The 8th Plague poster
4.9

A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.

Locusts: The 8th Plague

2005

Press Center poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Press Center

1988

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

Denyat ne si lichi po zaranta poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Denyat ne si lichi po zaranta

1985

Clear conscience poster
NR

An extremely honest forest ranger fights for the trust to the very end.

Clear conscience

2026

Film credits

1970s · 12 titles

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

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

Villa Zone poster
7.4

A common Bulgarian family spends a warm afternoon in the fall in a country house. The preparations for a dinner party are in full swing. The formal reason is that the son enlists in the Army and the real reason is to arrange a match between him and the daughter of the boss. All the schemes are frustrated as it turns out that the boy has already married another girl. Both the hosts and the guests lose control, unleashing a consecution of tragic or comic situations.

Villa Zone

1975

No artwork available
8.0

In order to shorten the completion period of a new work area, the director promises that he will organize a grand concert of famous opera singers at the opening of the new hall. There is an unexpected problem - there is no grand piano. The brigadier sends one of his workers to look for the instrument in the town. He finds himself in a very mysterious new world. After a series of comic situations, he manages to find the grand piano. The grand piano is in the production hall. The order of the day is completed, but is that enough?

The Grand Piano

1979

The Committee of 19 poster
7.5

UN's The Committee of 19 sends six scientists to investigate a biological outbreak in Africa.

The Committee of 19

1972

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 White Odyssey poster
9.0

During World War 2, four soldiers are trapped between a harsh winter and the enemy. They need food and shelter, but this comes at the expense of their position. With no where else to turn, they begin an odyssey through the mountains.

The White Odyssey

1973

The Stand-In poster
7.5

In a provincial town comes Elena -young actress. Soon she meets Ivan, who is the same age as her and who works at the construction site. In order to be a part of her world he agrees to pay as stand-in for a movie in which she has a small role. During the premiere, the actor gets all the fame and the stand-in stay unnoticed.

The Stand-In

1974

Third Planet in the Solar System poster
6.2

The film is in 3 parts: 1) 'Eden' - Aliens from the planet Rhea have flown with a damaged spaceship to Earth, looking for intelligent beings. They find apemen and take one of them into their ship. 2) 'The Wanderer' - A crime writer, who is travelling to see his dying friend, picks up a strange hitchhiker. On his return from the sanatorium, his car goes off the road, but the stranger lifts it into the air and lands it back on the highway. Then he goes to the writer's house and shows him his supernatural abilities. 3) 'My First Day' - Len, an alien traveler arrives on Earth to share with humans the knowledge of their ancient civilization. He meets its inhabitants, who are served by robots and travel back in time, because their life is boring and meaningless. Every day his hostess Lena visits an ancient Slavic settlement and monitors its inhabitants. One day she appears before the hunter Bayan, who has been captivated by her beauty and takes her into his hut.

Third Planet in the Solar System

1972

Eternal Times poster
7.7

During the socialist regime in Bulgaria, the migration from villages to bigger towns brings a lot of problems and sadness to some of the party activists.

Eternal Times

1975

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

Rali poster
8.0

1876. The Turks murder the parents of the 14-year-old Rali. His only relative is sentenced to life imprisonment in the Asian fortress. Rali walks after the condemned men. After a long and painful road, he reaches the fortress. He finds help from the old man and his daughter. With their assistance, he organizes the escape of the condemned. After numerous adventures the fugitives reaches the motherland. They enlist in a Bulgarian rebel army together with the Russian soldiers of the Russian-Turkish War for the freedom of Bulgaria.

Rali

1978

1960s · 11 titles

The Peach Thief poster
7.1

The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.

The Peach Thief

1964

The Penleve Case poster
8.7

The three grotesque novels whose action takes place at different times of the recent past are united by a common thematic key – their protest against violence and militarism, expressed by means of a kind of absurd humor.

The Penleve Case

1968

Banished from Eden poster
9.0

In a concert, one of the musicians suddenly rushed to the sky. There he waits at St. Peter's Gate to be received. Inside, pathetic music is played. A musician plays jazz. The angels begin to tremble in rhythm

Banished from Eden

1967

Twosome Beneath the Skies poster
8.0

Stefan and Tanya arrive in a miners' settlement. They register as a married couple at the hostel, but Tanya admits to the house managers that Stefan has a wife but has started divorce procedure. The two have fled from the scandal. Stefan starts work at the mine and she waits for him in the hostel with little to do. Her mother arrives. Unable to swallow the humiliation of having been rejected by Tanya's family, Stefan gets drunk. When he comes back, he starts a row and has to be restrained. Stefan takes offense, leaves the mine, parts with Tanya, and becomes a waiter in the pub. Soon he obtains a divorce. He wants to take Tanya back to his native town. She refuses to give up her new friends and the steady job she has found. Stefan sets out alone. At the very last moment, he jumps from the bus...

Twosome Beneath the Skies

1962

If A Train Is Not Coming poster
7.5

A young engineer arrives in a small provincial town and falls in with a traffic police inspector, a driving instructor, and a cannery-engineering manager. From sheer boredom, the inspector tickets a driver who has not broken the regulations. The driving instructor takes advantage of his position to seduce one of his students. To kill time, the engineering manager spends his time intriguing. These passions seem to be all that the three of them live for.

If A Train Is Not Coming

1967

No artwork available
8.0

Marin, a middle-aged man, returns to his birthplace, nearly twenty years after he left.

The Sky Over Veleka

1968

The She-Wolf poster
7.0

Anna, nicknamed the She-wolf, is a young girl with provocative behavior, who actually hides an unhappy childhood without parents and real friends.

The She-Wolf

1965

Poor Street poster
7.0

The students Yoshkata and Petar share rooms and wartime privations in a poor man's street. Over a glass of vine, Yoshkata often talks about the stage life of genuine beauty. The student is unaware of the passion with which Vaska, the barmaid at the local pub, burns for him. Petar is a member of an antifascist combat unit. The pupil Katya loves him. Petar carries out a sabotage action and comes home wounded. Yoshkata manages to deceive the Germans who rush into their flat that they have been drinking and playing cards throughout the evening. He saves his friend. However, the secret agent notices the doctor's visits. When the police arrive to arrest Petar, Yoshkata tries to resist them and the agent shoots him dead. Petar goes underground. On the day of the liberation, all the residents of the poor man's street celebrate, and Katya and Petar happily reunited. Vaska is there, too, a baby in her arms, the fruit of her love with Yoshkata...

Poor Street

1960

No artwork available
8.0

Five Bulgarian émigrés return to their country by submarine from the Soviet Union. They have to organize the antifascist resistance.

Homecoming

1967

Tsar and General poster
8.3

The film is based on the conflict between the Monarch of Bulgaria -Tsar Boris III and general Vladimir Zaimov during the Second World War and discusses different understandings about heroism and self-sacrifice.

Tsar and General

1966

The Inspector and the Night poster
8.3

Marinov is found dead, and suspects include Baev, Dimov, and Zhana. The Inspector, who deals with life’s dark side, investigates. Despite his loneliness, he shows compassion, especially towards Zhana. Ultimately, he concludes Marinov committed suicide and demonstrates that people can embrace higher morality. Based on the detective book by Bogomil Raynov.

The Inspector and the Night

1963

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