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Stefan Valdobrev is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Music Bulgare born on 20 may 1970 at Stara Zagora (Bulgarie)

Stefan Valdobrev

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Nationality Bulgarie
Birth 20 may 1970 (53 years) at Stara Zagora (Bulgarie)

Stefan Valdobrev (Bulgarian: Стефан Вълдобрев) (born May 20, 1970) is a Bulgarian actor, film/theatre composer, singer-songwriter and filmmaker. He received classical training at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia.

Valdobrev rose to prominence in the early 1990s, mainly with his hit songs, which made him extremely popular and gained him idol status on the Bulgarian music scene, twice being awarded as best male artist at the National Music Television ceremonies. Despite that he never quit his acting career and took part in numerous performances which have spanned a wide variety of genres from classical to contemporary drama, and from popular comedies to alternative, non-commercial projects, all staged by the most prominent Bulgarian directors on the most significant theatre stages. At that time Valdobrev gradually entered the world of film and theatre music and since 1992 has gone on to enjoy composing the original scores for more than 70 stage performances and 20 feature and documentary movies, winning many plaudits and awards for his work. In 2000 he received the Golden Rose film award for debut for the Dog's Home original movie soundtrack featuring Arabel Karajan. In 2008 he composed the music for Stefan Komandarev's highly acclaimed film The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, a Bulgarian-German co-production with Miki Manojlovic in the lead role, which won a considerable number of international awards and reached the Short List of The Academy Awards 2010 for Foreign Language film.

Although Valdobrev continued performing in theatre (Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Muller's Hamletmachine, Anouilh's Eurydice), he gradually moved away from this area, and also from the music stage, to become more established as a film actor. In 2004 he got his break in Burning out, for which he received the Golden Rose for Best Male performance at the National Film Awards.

In 2006-2007 Valdobrev completed a film directing specialization at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). After graduating from there he directed a few short films, TV programs and music videos. He made his director's film debut in 2010 with the documentary comedy drama My Mate Manchester United. Provided with the cameo appearance of the Bulgarian football superstar Dimitar Berbatov, the film won two international awards and was presented in the competition of the official selection of 21 major world film festivals: IDFA Amsterdam, HotDocs Toronto, ZagrebDox, Sarajevo and Warsaw among them.

After being away from the rock stage for almost a decade in 2012 Stefan Valdobrev decided to rejoin his old band "The Usual Suspects" and to start recording songs and performing live in concerts again.

Biography

Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev. In 2007 graduated a film directing course at the film academy FAMU in Prague.

He has played more than forty characters on stage, starred in eight feature films. He has composed original music for more than sixty-five theatre performances, eight feature and four documentary films. He has also released 9 pop-music albums.

In 1999 he released his debut book of poetry called Catapult. In 2001 his play Eros was published in the compilation book Young Bulgarian Dramaturgy

Stefan Valdobrev has toured as an actor and composer France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Israel, Russia, Hungary, United Kingdom, U.S., Switzerland, Romania, Austria and Albania.

He is married to Iana, who is a lawyer. They have a daughter Maria.

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Filmography of Stefan Valdobrev (5 films)

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Actor

The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, 1h45
Directed by Stephan Komandarev
Origin Bulgarie
Genres Drama
Actors Miki Manojlović, Carlo Ljubek, Stefan Valdobrev, Erden Alkan
Roles Stoyan
Rating78% 3.9450153.9450153.9450153.9450153.945015
In a small Bulgarian provincial town during the 1980s, factory worker Vasil 'Vasko' Georgiev (Hristo Mutafchiev) has problems with the local Communist Party agent (Nikolai Urumov) who wants Vasko to monitor and report on the activities of his father-in-law, Bai Dan (Miki Manojlović). Bai Dan is the local "King of Backgammon" and is accused by the local authorities of conducting an illegal workshop in which he repairs bicycles and manufactures backgammon sets. Facing a moral dilemma, Vasko decides to emigrate beyond the Iron Curtain to Western Europe with his wife Yana (Ana Papadopulu) and his son Aleksander 'Sashko' (played as a child by Blagovest Mutafchiev). The family succeeds in crossing the border to Italy but face the prospect of lengthy detention in a bleak refugee camp until Vasko is able to pay for them to be smuggled into Germany.
Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch, 1h38
Genres Drama
Actors Rousy Chanev, Stefan Valdobrev
Roles Popadamchev
Rating62% 3.133513.133513.133513.133513.13351
Bloodsport: The Dark Kumite, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Daniel Bernhardt, Derek McGrath, Stefan Valdobrev
Rating29% 1.4664551.4664551.4664551.4664551.466455
Agent John Keller (Daniel Bernhardt) goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament arranged by a man named Justin Caesar (Ivan Ivanov), where the prisoners are forced to fight to death. The tournament has only one rule: There are no rules.

Director

My Mate Manchester United
Directed by Stefan Valdobrev
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Association football films
Rating72% 3.600493.600493.600493.600493.60049
Martin Levidzhov's journey to becoming Mr Manchester United begins back in 1999 when he was watching the Champions League final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. In the 89th minute of the match he vowed to change his name to Manchester United if his favourite team managed to turn around the 0:1 negative score. The British team did it in the most dramatic of fashions, thus determining Levidzhov's future struggles for the next fifteen years. The protagonist then undertook his fight with the Bulgarian legal system to have his name changed, a right he was repeatedly denied by various court instances.

Scriptwriter

My Mate Manchester United
Directed by Stefan Valdobrev
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Association football films
Rating72% 3.600493.600493.600493.600493.60049
Martin Levidzhov's journey to becoming Mr Manchester United begins back in 1999 when he was watching the Champions League final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. In the 89th minute of the match he vowed to change his name to Manchester United if his favourite team managed to turn around the 0:1 negative score. The British team did it in the most dramatic of fashions, thus determining Levidzhov's future struggles for the next fifteen years. The protagonist then undertook his fight with the Bulgarian legal system to have his name changed, a right he was repeatedly denied by various court instances.

Sound

The Judgement, 1h47
Directed by Stephan Komandarev
Origin Bulgarie
Genres Drama
Actors Asen Blatechki, Miki Manojlović, Meto Jovanovski
Roles Music
Rating71% 3.588723.588723.588723.588723.58872
The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, 1h45
Directed by Stephan Komandarev
Origin Bulgarie
Genres Drama
Actors Miki Manojlović, Carlo Ljubek, Stefan Valdobrev, Erden Alkan
Roles Music
Rating78% 3.9450153.9450153.9450153.9450153.945015
In a small Bulgarian provincial town during the 1980s, factory worker Vasil 'Vasko' Georgiev (Hristo Mutafchiev) has problems with the local Communist Party agent (Nikolai Urumov) who wants Vasko to monitor and report on the activities of his father-in-law, Bai Dan (Miki Manojlović). Bai Dan is the local "King of Backgammon" and is accused by the local authorities of conducting an illegal workshop in which he repairs bicycles and manufactures backgammon sets. Facing a moral dilemma, Vasko decides to emigrate beyond the Iron Curtain to Western Europe with his wife Yana (Ana Papadopulu) and his son Aleksander 'Sashko' (played as a child by Blagovest Mutafchiev). The family succeeds in crossing the border to Italy but face the prospect of lengthy detention in a bleak refugee camp until Vasko is able to pay for them to be smuggled into Germany.