Stefan Danailov
Acting
Biography
Stefan Lambov Danailov (Bulgarian: Стефан Ламбов Данаилов) (born 9 December 1942) is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria (August 2005 – July 2009). The first film Danailov took part in was The Traces Remain (Следите остават) when he was a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor but in 1966, he graduated from VITIZ (Bulgarian Theatre Academy). His best-known work is as Major Deyanov in the series На всеки километър (At Each Kilometer). He has participated in numerous films and plays for which he won a lot of prizes. For several years he has been a professor at the Theatre Academy in Sofia.
Born: December 9, 1942
Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
Known For
Dance of the Samodivi
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.
The Soldier of the Supply Column
In September 1944, the red army crosses the Danube. Private Ales together with his agricultural horses follows the victory march. A broken wheel of his cart forces Ales to fall behind and look for help in the nearby village. The "odyssey" of the common cavalry soldier begins. He becomes a friend with the Bulgarian peasants. They need to part ways with a hidden sadness and true love. —Georgi Djulgerov
The Inspector and the Night
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 Weddings of Ioan Assen
The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it.
Ladies' Choice
A couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations, caused between the driving-teacher and the beginner-drivers.
The First Courier
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
Home for Our Children
The Octopus
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
The Central Warmth
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.
Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor
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.
Filmography
as Дядо
as Boris Arnaudov
as The Patriarch
as Dimitar Kasabov
as Бащата на Елен
as Minta
as Albert Cohen
as Stephan / ontori
as Vincenzo Grumo
as Actor
as Ambrazis (as Stephan Danailov)
as Rezhisyorat Paskalev
as Georgiy Iordanov
as Krastyo
as Ivan Tsolov, architect
as Danton Tahov
as Boris I
as Boris I
as Nazareno 'Nuzzo' Marciano
as Kapitan Vasil Altunov
as Dr. Stariradev
as Yakim - The driving instructor
as Vasil Gramatikov
as Pancho
as Workman / Gyp
as Nikolai Korabelov
as Zhivko Georgiev
as Slavcho
as Sasho
as Burgundetza
as Lieutenant Bozhev
as Kerkeneza
as Kostadin Dzhupunov
as Galchev
as Nikolay
as Knyaz Svetoslav
as Никола Деянов – Сергей / Серж Омон / Nikola Deyanov - Sergey / Serge Omon
as Ivan Zagubanski
as Toni
as Veselin
as арх. Цолов