The best Ivan Grigorov’s movies

Ivan Grigorov

Ivan Grigorov

20/06/1944- 04/07/2013
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Yuliya Vrevskaya

Yuliya Vrevskaya
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 02/10/1977
  • Character: First Bulgarian Rebel
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.

Adio, Rio

Adio, Rio
7.1/10
Stoev, a talented architect is working in Rio de Janeiro. All along the design stages, Stoev's understanding has been that he would be going together with his assistant architect. However, the company chief secretly decides to change the terms and go instead of the assistant, threatening Stoev to cancel the whole deal if he doesn't comply. Stoev is left with the dilemma to betray a colleague and friend, or to miss the greatest opportunity in his career. When Stoev is about to choose the former, a mysterious dead body appears in his life.

Bratyuzhka

Bratyuzhka
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 11/12/1975
  • Character: Selyanin pri melnitzata

The Mandolin

The Mandolin
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/05/1973
  • Character: Форката
Gallows is being raised in a prison yard. A moment before the execution the Girl brings a document of the young communist's temporary pardon. The chief of the prison, the Major, has a mandolin collection. He offers a fistfight to the young communist. The young man hits him. The Major and the young communist start playing the mandolins together. Girl is allowed to meet the young communist. The boy begins to play. The melody brings to the Major pleasant memories. He fought in the Spanish civil war, but after the defeat, he turned back on his beliefs. The Major receives a telegram that he needs to send the young communist to another prison. Death awaits him there. In is rage the Major breaks the mandolins. He orders the young communist to be taken out to work. The young man runs off. The Major shoots him himself.

Nona

Nona
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1973
  • Character: peasant
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.

King for a Day

King for a Day
8.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/05/1983
  • Character: Mito Bosiya
This film is a comedy about a poor man named Purko. Purko always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.

White Magic

White Magic
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/1982
Bizarre events happen in an isolated village.

Dance of the Samodivi

Dance of the Samodivi
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/08/1976
  • Character: a peasant
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.

Adaptation

Adaptation
8.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/06/1981
  • Character: Dr. Galabov
Where does the dividing line lie between insanity and supersensitive mentality? How should we treat people who act in a different way then we do? A young and gifted shrink sets up a group, using up-to-date and unknown methods. His idea is to socialize such people, to integrate them into a society they keep aloof from, and help them to survive.

The Thirteenth Bride of the Prince

The Thirteenth Bride of the Prince
7.5/10
A silly prince wants to marry a beautiful peasant girl. His guards kidnap her, but the girl escapes and returns to her beloved. Meanwhile, a UFO lands in the kingdom and the aliens witness nuisances, court intrigues, and lies. They are not allowed to meddle in other people's affairs, but they still influence the happy ending.

Strong Water

Strong Water
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1975
  • Character: Chiko
A small town is dealing with drought.

Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor

Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/06/1985
  • Character: Sotirov
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.

Exitus

Exitus
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/05/1989
A small town movie theater manager is tortured by childhood trauma of having abandoned his mentally ill brother die in a fire.

Surge of Tenderness

Surge of Tenderness
7/10
The end of World War II. The Bulgarian army is fighting the German one. Private Peycho Peychev known as Peychina is also at the frontier - a sensitive and timid person forced to witness the horrors of the war. His commanding officer keeps saying that at the end of a war the world is swept by a 'surge of tenderness'. After a serious injury, Peychina goes back to his birth place. The new ruling powers in the village try to win him over to their side but what he is really good at is holding the chisel, not the gun. He carves an image of Elena, a woman that he falls in love with. Yet, the surge of tenderness in the world seems to be canceled. Peychina comes to be responsible for the death of an anarchist and helps capture his commanding officer, who fights against the new rule. When the mayor hands him a gun again, he refuses to take it.

The Stand-In

The Stand-In
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1974
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.

Poem

Poem
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/08/1986
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.

Infernal Weapon

Infernal Weapon
5.6/10
A knight is tasked with finding a mystical weapon.

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