Assen Blatechki

Acting

Assen Blatechki

Born

1971-03-22 (55)

Place of birth

Sofia, Bulgaria

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Assen Emilov Blatechki (born 22 March, 1971) is a Bulgarian actor. Blatechki appeared in a number of Bulgarian films including Steps in the Sand" (Bulgarian: Стъпки в пясъка) and The Foreigner (Bulgarian: Чужденецът). He has also taken roles in foreign films. Blatechki is also a TV presenter and has been a judge on Bulgaria Searches for a Talent.

Known for

In Hell poster
6.7

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

In Hell

2003

Hitman poster
6.2

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

Hitman

2007

Thick as Thieves poster
6.0

A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.

Thick as Thieves

2009

Unstoppable poster
5.2

The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.

Unstoppable

2004

Boa vs. Python poster
4.5

After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!

Boa vs. Python

2004

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

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Sister poster
5.1

A small town in present-day Bulgaria. A mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The dreamy and distracted younger daughter often invents stories in order to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in the trap of her own lies and destroys her older sister's well-ordered materialistic world. Meanwhile, the two sisters find out the truth about their mother

Sister

2020

The Heir poster
10.0

18-year-old Viktor Mordem is torn from his human life and drawn into an isolated aristocratic vampire order, where an ancient ritual determines who is worthy to inherit power.

The Heir

2026

Blaga's Lessons poster
6.7

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…

Blaga's Lessons

2024

The Rest Is Ashes poster
7.9

Atanas Burov (played by Assen Blatechki) is considered as the most influential politician in Bulgaria's history. The movie is about him and his love story with Dilyana Popova as the main female character.

The Rest Is Ashes

2020

South Wind 2: Speed Up poster
7.4

Nenad, Maras his little brother, wants to follow the ilegal footsteps of his brother and now Maras and Baca have to free him from the clutches of the bad guys.

South Wind 2: Speed Up

2021

Bet poster
7.5

Before the Liberation, during the years of the exiled Bulgarian revolutionaries in Romania, the Major and the Prime Minister once shared the same ideals, the same home, and even the same woman. Today, the Major orchestrates a conspiracy to overthrow the government led by his former friend, the Prime Minister. The head of state must be assassinated, and the Prince – dethroned. The woman is part of the plot, but she will try to prevent the fratricide.

Bet

2025

Scenes from the Life of an Actress poster
NR

Maria-Eleonora is an actress. During a film premiere she leaves the screening hall and crashes her car into the concrete wall of a parking lot, killing herself. Her longtime friend and aspiring film director Peter try to find out the reasons behind this dramatic act and interviews her relatives, colleagues, closest friends. He adds to the interviews video footage that he himself shot during their life together and some film scenes in which Maria-Eleonora took small supporting parts. Thus, Peter creates the film "Scenes from the life of an actress". Peter learns that everyone has a story about what happened, but no one really knew the deceased actress. Peter didn't knew her too.

Scenes from the Life of an Actress

2020

Danny. Legend. God. poster
6.7

A crime documentary project gets hijacked by its subject.

Danny. Legend. God.

2020

Bring Me Home poster
7.0

A Christmas miracle happens in a home for children without parents - Zlati, a famous face from the small screen, showman, and host of "Golden Show" arrives. He has taken on the noble initiative "Take Me Home" - a call for kindness and compassion. Zlati invites little Yan to visit his own home for Christmas. For one day, the child will be in the spotlight and learn a lot about the false glamour of success.

Bring Me Home

2024

Clay poster
NR

A story about a couple whose autistic son, Bozhidar, disappears into the forest—just after his mother, Maria, in a moment of emotional breakdown, wishes he would vanish. Тhe parents as they face their greatest challenge, not only with their child, but with each other and themselves.

Clay

2026

2010s · 13 titles

Rounds poster
7.4

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.

Rounds

2019

The Judgement poster
6.3

This is the story of Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area, near to the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek Border. Mityo had lost everything that has mattered to him – his wife, his work, the confidence of his son, Vasko. In order to get him back, Mityo has to find forgiveness and pay for his sin, done 25 years ago.

The Judgement

2014

Footsteps in the Sand poster
7.9

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...

Footsteps in the Sand

2010

Jigsaw Puzzle poster
NR

We are all a little pieces of the great JIGSAW PUZZLE. And there is only one that fits to other... we look for it and find the same...we try to put it, but... it is the same but not the right one... there left an empty space. Can we rewrite our destiny? Can we overcome the last barrier... death?

Jigsaw Puzzle

2012

Gasoline poster
6.0

After spending fifteen years in prison a former race car driver returns to his old life in order to fulfill the promise he made to the love of his life.

Gasoline

2017

A Dose of Happiness poster
6.2

The real story of the journalist Vesela Toteva (in the role is her daughter -Valentina Karoleva) searching for her own happiness during the dynamic and uncertain 90's in Bulgaria. A tale about drugs, fall, fear and redemption.

A Dose of Happiness

2019

Enemies poster
10.0

A group of Bulgarian soldiers go on a mission during the Balkan War.

Enemies

2018

Directions poster
6.7

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.

Directions

2017

His Cannibal Granny poster
NR

Radostin is the new boy at school. His peculiar charm and kindness attract everybody's attention and the school bullies start to feel jealous. In order to diminish his popularity, they spread a rumor about the cannibalistic past of Radostin's grandmother. The boy becomes the target of everybody's hatred.

His Cannibal Granny

2019

Pistol, Suitcase and Three Stinking Barrels poster
6.3

Pistol, Suitcase and Three stinking barrels is a gangster comedy which tells the story of the 23-year-old student Anton, a.k.a "The Beautiful". He has a dream but in order for it to come true he must first find money. The Beautiful decides to risk it all and unfortunately he finds himself mixed up in a hell of a mess of intertwining absurd situations with a drug lord fascinated with Lego, a group of small time crooks, a dangerous top cop, a sexy blond, corrupted government agents, a football player and his mistress

Pistol, Suitcase and Three Stinking Barrels

2012

The Foreigner poster
4.8

A Frenchman falls in love with a hot temper Bulgarian village girl. Following the call of his heart he starts looking for the village where she lives without knowing the character and the language of the people living there.

The Foreigner

2012

The House poster
NR

After yet another night of heavy partying, Victor finds himself trapped by his own actions and sees the truth regarding himself through the eyes of the past.

The House

2016

Salty and sweet poster
10.0

This is a story for two completely different generations and ages. Placed in an 'unusual' situation a father will manage in finding strength and hope first for himself in order to be able a role model for his little boy. Their Christmas pray will bring them together on the way to each other. This touching story will discover that life should not be defined. It should be perceived as a process and not as a category.

Salty and sweet

2011

2000s · 26 titles

In Hell poster
6.7

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

In Hell

2003

Hitman poster
6.2

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

Hitman

2007

Thick as Thieves poster
6.0

A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.

Thick as Thieves

2009

Unstoppable poster
5.2

The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.

Unstoppable

2004

Boa vs. Python poster
4.5

After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!

Boa vs. Python

2004

Ninja poster
6.2

A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.

Ninja

2009

The Russian Specialist poster
5.1

A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.

The Russian Specialist

2005

The Killing Grounds poster
3.6

Set against the backdrop of a violent gang war, the police commissioner must find who is killing young children before the next innocent victim dies.

The Killing Grounds

2007

Icon poster
5.5

A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian policewoman, they work to uncover a plot to use biological weapons against certain factions of the Russian people to commit genocide. The virus would also be released in other populations, but would be treated making the candidate a hero. A side plot has the agent being reunited with his long lost daughter.

Icon

2005

Python 2 poster
5.5

A man, his business partner, and his wife are enlisted to transport an unknown object from a Russian military base, only to discover that the object is a giant, genetically-altered python.

Python 2

2002

Sharks in Venice poster
4.2

The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father?

Sharks in Venice

2008

Magma: Volcanic Disaster poster
6.4

When a volcano expert becomes convinced that a cataclysmic natural disaster is about to unfold, a volcanologist Professor John Shepherd and his graduate students believes that recent unexplainable volcanic activity as all of the volcanoes in the world are going to erupt and kill every living thing on the planet! They try to convince the government that their theory is true not a joke while also trying to figure out how to stop it before time runs out!

Magma: Volcanic Disaster

2006

Hidden Children poster
6.1

This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June 17, 1942, the children spent several adventurous months in Slovenia, caught up in the ongoing fight between the partisans and the Italian army. In April 1943, another 33 children, some from the Balkans, others from France, joined the original group. All were orphans who had lost their parents in concentration camps and had subsequently been smuggled out of Germany by Recha Freier, a well-known Zionist. The group ranged in age from six to twenty one and settled in at Villa Emma with their chaperones and teachers, Josef Indig, Marco Schoky and the pianist Boris Jochverdson.

Hidden Children

2004

Alien Apocalypse poster
4.1

An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.

Alien Apocalypse

2005

Grendel poster
3.6

King Higlack of the Gauths entrusts prince Finn and a fire ball weapon to his champion, slayer Beowulf. They lead twelve men on a mission to help king Hrothgar of the Danes, whose once glorious realm is terrorized by the undefeated monster Grendel. The task is made more difficult as Hrothgar kept gruesome secrets.

Grendel

2007

The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake poster
5.0

Sir Francis Drake goes on a quest to find the legendary Tree of Life, battling the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, sorceress and his bitter nemesis Captain Don Sandovate on the way.

The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake

2009

Air Strike poster
4.3

An small attack force is sent to an East European country to help neutralize a powerful drug syndicate.

Air Strike

2003

Seamstresses poster
6.6

Three young girls try to flee from unemployment in the country: they arrive in the capital city of Sofia to look for a job and a different future. The three of them try to survive, fighting...

Seamstresses

2007

Mila from Mars poster
7.2

Fleeing an abusive relationship, Mila, a teen prostitute, finds herself in a border town, pregnant, alone, and, to her surprise, welcome. The remote village is on a marijuana plantation run by a group of elderly men and women. Not having known much kindness, she goes into emotional hiding, but by the time the baby is born she has a new life and love. Her past, however, is not far behind

Mila from Mars

2004

U.S. Seals poster
5.3

Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely a deserted oil rig near Turkey. But these are cleverly waiting for them.

U.S. Seals

2000

Monkeys in Winter poster
6.3

Dona, Lukrecie and Tana - three women of different origins and destinies, whose stories unfold at different times. The tale of the Romany woman Dona begins in the 1960s. The only assets this beautiful and vital woman has are her three children fathered by different men. In order to secure a livelihood for them, she moves in with an older, but disabled man, who turns out to be a pervert. Ten years later, the ambitious Lukrecie is trying to avoid employment in the village. After she becomes pregnant by a prospective suitor, she meets an attractive young man who offers her a life abroad, something she had always dreamed of. Lukrecie resolves her situation in the most appalling way. Tana, the wife of a prosperous businessman, vainly longs to have a child. On the advice of a friend, she goes off to a spa, whose miraculous reputation is attributable to a skillful masseur. Her husband, however, is unmoved by the joyful news.

Monkeys in Winter

2006

Forecast poster
6.0

Margarita leaves the famous reporter Marco Matanich, joining her brother and his friends from different Balkan countries, windsurfing on an island. But the wind stops and a beach war-game begins. To prove his skills to Margarita, Marco shoots them in reportage. Quoted by leading media it fires a Balkan conflict, the friends start building national borders between their tents, while Margarita disappears in the open sea.

Forecast

2009

The Rage poster
8.0

A young man attempts to save a prostitute from a prostitution ring. His fury is two-sided: on one hand, it is caused by the futility of honesty, on the other hand, it is caused by the triumphs of treachery.

The Rage

2002

S.S. Doomtrooper poster
5.3

A genetically bred Nazi super soldier fights Allied troops.

S.S. Doomtrooper

2006

No artwork available
6.5

In secret institute in the mid 80s of last century, experiments are conducted to freeze people. The similarity of the two names confused destinies of several people. Twenty years later, accidentally frozen man wakes up in a new and very different world absurdities of mature socialism faced with the absurdities of today ...

Frozen Dream

2005

No artwork available
9.0

This film indirectly depicts the childhood of the famous Bulgarian poet Dora Gabe trough the fictional character of Nora.

Птицата

2003

Series credits

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

The Devil's Throat poster
7.3

At the height of the refugee crisis in Bulgaria, a competent DANS employee and an ambitious local investigator are investigating the murder of a retired police officer in the border town of Smolyan. The clues are gradually turning them into a terrible secret about a crime that will overturn their investigation and personal fate.

The Devil's Throat

2019

Strawberry Moon poster
4.3

Follows the story of a young firefighter who, despite the difficulties, does not give up on his choice of profession.

Strawberry Moon

2020

The Cage poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Cage

2023

The Cage poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Cage

2023

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

Bulgaria Searches for a Talent poster
10.0

Bulgaria Searches for a Talent is the Bulgarian version of the Got Talent series. It launched on bTV on 1 March 2010. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of the show will receive 60,000 leva (about €30,000).

Bulgaria Searches for a Talent

2010

Puzzle: Kidnapped poster
6.0

Puzzle: Kidnapped is a Bulgarian action web series. The series is produced and distributed by 7Talents. The plot tells the story of four young people who decide to spend Friday night in an escape room. Instead, however, it turns out that they have witnessed a brutal crime. Two hired killers take the youth hostage. Only the four friends' strong will to survive will prevent the criminals from getting away with their crimes.

Puzzle: Kidnapped

2018

Behind the camera