Naicho Petrov

Naicho Petrov

Birthday: 1920-10-17

Place of Birth: Dzhinchovtzi, Tran, Bulgaria

Biography: Naicho Petrov was born on October 17, 1920 in the village Djinchovtsi, Bulgaria . He did not complete secondary education, but visited theater courses in Varna in 1946 and Sofia in 1949. In 1939, he debuted as an actor on the stage of the Plovdiv Municipal Theatre , in which he played in 1939 - 1941, 1945 - 1954 and 1957 - 1960. He has worked consistently in Varna Drama Theater , "Boyana" Film Studios, National Theatre "Ivan Vazov" , Youth Theatre , Kardzhali Drama Theater . Naicho Petrov has many roles in the theater, the most significant are: Margalaka in "Gerac Family" by Elin Pelin; Maslarski in "Millionaire" by Yordan Yovkov; Zhelyu in "Vampire" by Anton Strashimirov; Waller in "Tartuffe" by Moliere; Frank in "The profession of Mrs. Warren" by George Bernard Shaw; Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. He debuted in cinema in 1957 in the film "Earth". He has taken participation in more than 100 movies. His characters - Captain Stanev in "On the Small Island"; an ordinary policeman; a district chief, an agent, a general, a Gypsy, a black market swindler, a firefighter, a barber, a waiter, a mayor and Salvador Allende - all carry a bit of his insight on the wealth of human emotions. He died on January 20, 2016 in Sofia.

Movies

Almanac
Almanac

An ordinary girl Dimka works on the cooperative farm. Her father Yordan, an honest man, is accused o...

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The Windmill
The Windmill

Film about a group of kids helping solve a gang of criminals....

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The Golden Tooth
The Golden Tooth

Captain Lipovanski is badly wounded during World War II. The Germans take him prisoner. After the en...

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Tuvalu
Tuvalu

Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts...

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The Clown and the Kids
The Clown and the Kids

A small circus troupe wants to perform for the children in a small Eastern European town, but is pre...

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Kaloyan
Kaloyan

1197. King Kaloyan ascends the throne in hard times for Bulgaria. The country is still recovering fr...

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The Steep Path
The Steep Path

Nine volunteers begin digging a tunnel through rugged mountain terrain. The group includes three min...

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Adventure at Midnight
Adventure at Midnight

Abundant supplies of imported vaccine prove ineffective against an outbreak of foot-and-mouth diseas...

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Whale
Whale

A fishing boat comes back to the port. Fishermen are crestfallen, as they have caught only one very ...

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Thirteen Days
Thirteen Days

The Soviet army is approaching the Bulgarian border. Many government ministers and army officers pre...

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Stars
Stars

Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist –...

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On the Small Island
On the Small Island

In the 1920s several dozen political prisoners are exiled on a small island in the Black Sea awaitin...

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Clever Peter
Clever Peter

Hitar Petar escapes every hard time the life gives him by using his quick mind....

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Earth
Earth

A Bulgarian village before the First World War. The young and ambitious farmer Enyo loves the beauti...

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Torrid Noon
Torrid Noon

A young boy (I. Spassov) gets his hand caught in a bridge beam on a hot summer day in this straightf...

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Cry for Help
Cry for Help

20-year-old Georgi was adopted as a child. The family falls apart though and he ends up in a youth d...

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Nona
Nona

The beginning of the 20th century. The young Nona comes back to her father's farm from Switzerland. ...

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Dangerous Flight
Dangerous Flight

Professor Dimov is a diplomat who has been recruited as a spy by a foreign intelligence service. The...

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The Password
The Password

During the anti-fascist struggle, in 1944, a partisan detachment receives Soviet weapons and ammunit...

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Aesop
Aesop

This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people wit...

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Trini
Trini

Trini avenges the torture of his uncle by a landowner’s son. Trini and his fellow peons destroy the ...

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The Prince
The Prince

At the end of 13th and the beginning of the 14th century twenty-four-years old, Prince Svetoslav Ter...

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Restless home
Restless home

Evtim Manasiev is an outstanding engineer. At the office, he has made a name for himself as a "whole...

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The Dragon
The Dragon

There is a dragon, which threatens the life of the shacked village. The attempts of lumberjacks, she...

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The Troop Leader
The Troop Leader

Members of a partisan underground unit struggle during the anti-fascist Bulgarian Resistance of Worl...

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Poor Street
Poor Street

The students Yoshkata and Petar share rooms and wartime privations in a poor man's street. Over a gl...

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The Lindens of Stublen
The Lindens of Stublen

The former partisan, officer Petko, became the chairman of the collective farm, establishing the coo...

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The Tale of Two Soldiers
The Tale of Two Soldiers

1943. WWII. Senior Sergeant Maksudov and his contact Zakirov, who were captured, manage to escape fr...

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