Marianna Dimitrova Movies
- 1986
This interesting melodrama with a dash of political realism looks at the difficult adjustment to life in the city after a life in the countryside. Anna (Marianna Dimitrova) and her husband Ivan (Plamen Sirakov) move to the capital of Sofia in search of advancement. He works the day shift in a factory, and she works at night in a textile mill. That arrangement allows one of them to always be home with the children. Much to Anna's chagrin, a fellow worker develops a passion for her and almost drives a wedge between herself and her husband. Meanwhile, the owner of the villa they now share needs to use it again, so the two have to find an apartment. Worse yet, Anna's mother dies unexpectedly. But at least her death takes them back home and gives them a chance to re-examine their values before city life shreds them completely. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marianna Dimitrova, Plamen Sirakov, (more)
- 1981
Director Ivan Andonov and scriptwriter Georgi Mishev pair off for the second time since their 1976 release of the Fairy Dance. In this sexual comedy, Yakim Donev (Stefan Danailov), is a good-looking driving instructor who takes advantage of his natural endowments to run a little scam for himself on the side. His services as a healthy male are available to any woman trapped in a daily routine that makes her vulnerable to his charms. Yakim is a gentleman, in a sort of modified way, and exactly what these women are temporarily looking for in life. Soon more and more women decide that they really need driving lessons, and his agenda is beginning to get a little too full -- conflicts are starting over who has priority and who does not. One day when a husband wonders about all these driving lessons and has his wife tailed by a private detective, Yakim's woes take a turn for the worse. He tries desperately to remedy the steadily declining situation, until there seem to be no viable options left. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stefan Danailov, Nevena Kokanova, (more)
- 1980
A routine drama about misguided love on several sides, Pochti Lyubovna Istorya features a lowly factory worker in love with her boss' son, the boss' attempts to oust the woman, and the son's own view of his lover. No one seems to be in agreement. The boss has the woman kidnapped and returned to her remote village and that does keep her away from his son. He tries adding cash to his demands to stay away, and that does not work. Almost nothing works until the son himself gets into the act and tries to introduce the uneducated, simple woman he loves to his sophisticated university friends. That gives her a jolt of badly needed reality. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marianna Dimitrova
- 1978
Happiness is tantalizingly out of reach for the girl who is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding at the behest of a rich boy from a neighboring village. Honor demands that she try to escape her captor, whom she has come to love, and escape she does, often, but never far. When he realizes his love for her, the kidnapper's honor too demands action. In his case, he returns the girl to her village (despite their mutual love) and he receives a crippling wound for his pains. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marianna Dimitrova
- 1978
A girl newly arrived at a home for unwed mothers (Marianna Dimitrova) muses about her life and her reasons for being there. New residents are put through a humorous mock-wedding ceremony when they first arrive, and the title Be Blessed comes from that. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marianna Dimitrova
- 1976
In this comedy, the crude sensitivities of villagers confronted by a work of art depicting a town siren lead to a tempest in a teapot. The hapless artist, a village native, also suffers from the crude ambitions of his wife and her family, who believe that having his works appear at an exhibition is a guarantee of financial and artistic success -- and they mean to profit mightily by that success. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pavel Popandov, Marianna Dimitrova, (more)
- 1975
Chico (Ivan Grigorov) is a strong, charming lad, and a natural leader. He works as foreman of a gang of workers who are digging a new well for the town. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the gritty street-smarts to lie effectively. When the mayor questions him, he can't bring himself to say that he and the guys were playing cards when they should have been working. His crew dispatches him to allay the mayor's concerns that the work will ever get done, and he has a few amorous adventures along the way. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ivan Grigorov, Philip Trifonov, (more)
- 1975
Based on a bleak novel by Dimiter Dimov, this Bulgarian film tells of the thwarted love between Fanny Horn (Edith Soloy), an American nurse, and Father Heredia (Jan Englerd), a Jesuit priest/doctor serving in the buffer zone between the two factions fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Though the nurse loves the priest, instead of returning her affections he represses his feelings, growing sufficiently mad and compelling Fanny to take drastic measures. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jan Englert, Roussi Chanev, (more)
