bulgarian movies

Hristo Shopov

actor
Hristo Naumov Shopov was born on January 4th, 1964 in Sofia. He is the scion of one of Bulgaria's leading film families, the son of popular actor Naum Shopov, who has hundreds of credits dating back to the late 1950s. Since making his own debut in 1981, in Dishay, choveche (Breathe, Little Man!, 1981), Hristo Shopov has become one of the country's most successful actors in films like Lyudmil Todorov's Lyubovnoto Lyato no edin Lyokhman (Love-Summer of a Schlep, 1990) and lancho lanchev's Requisite (2000), while also appearing regularly in low­budget American movies filmed on location in Eastern Europe, such as Octopus (2000), Mindstorm (2000), Interceptor Force 2 (2002) and Alien Hunter (2003). He was seen most recently on American theater screens in Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone (2002), a fact-based Holocaust drama, with David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, and Harvey Keitel.
6 as actor
0 as director
0 as writer
0 as cinematographer

Awards and Nominations

2012

SEEFF Award

  • Best Actor

For the movie Liubovi.net (2011)

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Filmography - As an Actor:

1980s

Year Movie Role
1989

Margarit i Margarita

Margarit and Margarita are about to grad... [more]

Margarit
1989

Razvodi, razvodi...

Priqtelqt na mladojencite
1989

Test '88'

A look at why humans can be very cruel a... [more]

1988

Vchera

Back into 60s. While out there, in the W... [more]

Ivan
1983

Za gospojicata i neinata myjka kompaniq

It is 1944 in this theatrical war drama,... [more]

Nelegalniqt
1981

Dishai, choveche!

The story of a group of children in a sa... [more]

Plamen
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