Vasil Vachev

Born: 1925-06-14

Vasil Atanasov Vachev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born on June 14, 1925 in village Stubel, region Montana, Bulgaria. In the period from 1948 to 1950 he graduated College institute for teachers in Vratsa. In 1949, he became a member of the Union of Bulgarian Actors. Then he worked in theater and in cinema. He played in many Bulgarian movies: "The Peach Thief", "Bubble", "The Eighth", "The Longest Night" ,"Flood", "A White Magic", "The Boy is going" ,"The Penleve Case," "Royal", "Carom", "Green Monster", "The Stolen Train", "Dragon", "The Wall" and the TV series "Blue Light". Her acting fame became in 1963 with the film "The Irreconcilables " , directed by Yanko Yankov. His convincing performance as dumb won high praise from film critic and determined his future film career: a master of supporting characters. He put in his roles of Bulgarian peasant, a Bulgarian soldier the feeling of authenticity. These images are transferred him directly from his life - from his native village of Stubel and people who truly knows and loves, and from the front, where he participated himself. Great directors as Vulo Radev, Borislav Punchev, Gueorgui Stoyanov, Yanko Yankov found in him the talent of the silent hero "charismatic charm of delicate yet rigid soul of Bulgarian peasant." Silent heroes of Vasil Vachev became an integral part of Bulgarian Film Arts in the 60th and 70th. For years, he built an image after image of the scene of Vratsa Drama Theatre: Kutzar in "Albena" by Yordan Yovkov; in "Sleeping Beauty," "Paths", "Cold Land", "Borislav", "Emilia Galotti", "The Prosecutor", "Buried Sun", "A Girl Seeks the Truth", "Dress-maker from Saigon "," Mary Stuart", " Shining Dawn "," Repair "," Locked Spring ", " Wings ", " Prespa's Bells "," The Living Corpse ", "Under the yoke". These are some of his productions which will remain in the golden fund of Vratsa Theater.


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The Peach Thief

as Colonel's Orderly
Released: 1964-11-09

The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of...

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The Penleve Case

as Bay Stoyan
Released: 1968-04-26

The three grotesque novels whose action takes place at different times of the recent past are...

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The Boy Turns Man

as Vuychoto na Ran
Released: 1972-05-18

The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only...

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The Longest Night

as uncredited
Released: 1967-02-22

The action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a...

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Unrelenting

as Nemiya
Released: 1964-04-27

The action takes place at the end of WWII. It is 1944 on the Yugoslav front, where the Bulgarian...

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The Dragon

as Kolibaryat
Released: 1974-12-06

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

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The Stolen Train

as Bay Manol
Released: 1971-04-15

In September 1944, an unusual train travels to the Turkish border. Abroad the train are German...

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Karambol

as Бай Евстати Евстатиев
Released: 1966-10-17

In a large provincial town, two friends Nasko and Raycho meet Emil, a conductor in the opera,...

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