Leonid Yovchev
Acting
Biography
Leonid Yovchev is an actor in the troupe of the National Theatre "Ivan Vazov". Once a full-time artist in the Bulgarian Army Theatre, Yovchev has participated in performances on other stages as well as in independent theatre projects.
Born: November 14, 1983
Place of Birth: Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Known For
The Journey of a Mattress
A film intertwining three stories of individuals seeking meaning and connection: estranged sisters reconciling at their mother's deathbed, a flea market seller confronting purposelessness, and two grifters trapped in a cycle of searching.
Yellow Oleander
Scandalous Italian ex-premier arrives in Bulgaria to support EU parliament application of a Bulgarian politic. The host and his much younger wife invite the ex-premier to a remote villa. A Dead body, naughty adventures and many compromising events happen before the true greedy, traitorous and selfish nature of the host shine bright among the awkward circumstances.
Depersonalization
The film interprets the theme of the loss of personality, the so-called „depersonalization" – a state in which the individual loses the ability to feel the image of himself, his emotions, even his body. The world of the film is created through the movement of pigment, paint, fluid by the use of „painting under the camera" technique. The events flow into each other, degenerate in the logic of some irreversible and unnatural randomness. Their metamorphosis collides the evolutionary course with its opposite - the tree grows and buries his crown back into the earth, the world returns to primal matter, the consumer is consumed.
Daga - stories in pictures
The film is a study of a cultural phenomenon. In the midst of socialism - 1979 - in Bulgaria appears a magazine advocating Western influence – the comics art. “DAGA” exists for more than ten years and has a huge circulation – 300,000. This is a unique comics magazine, not only in Bulgaria but throughout the former Soviet bloc. Some of the series and the characters are still living today in the minds of the readers, shaping their personalities.
Adultery
A boy starts an affair with his famous dad's young new wife - an instinctive way of victory of a confused soul over his parent's inadequacy. Ever haunting dreams about his real mother start overwhelming the boy more and more often. Unsuspecting a thing, the father keeps trying to carry out his own views on beauty upon their joint living. In vain - faith intends differently.
January
Two men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery as it slowly devours them.
The Therapy
An eccentric psychologist has limited time to experiment with a group of artists, applying unconventional methods to cure their fears, while she herself struggles with a problem that has no solution.
Levanter
Two emigrants meet during a vacation in Bulgaria and, while exploring hidden corners of the coastline, unintentionally fall in love. A year later, memories, dreams, and reality intertwine in an imaginary reunion.
Filmography
as Mihail
as The Priest
as Iliya
as Himself
as Чарли