Petar Popyordanov

Petar Popyordanov

Petar Ivanov Popyordanov , known as Chocho Popyordanov, is Bulgarian theater and cinema actor. He was born on June 11, 1964 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a son of Ivan Popyordanov (born on 1938) - a longtime Chief of the cinema center Boyana Film Studios. He was also Chief of Bulgarian National Television in 1998. The Mother of Petar Popyordanov Katya was a doctor. The father's family originated from Veles, Vardar Macedonia. Chocho great-grandfather was a first cousin of the Macedonian revolutionaries - Chieftain Mile and his younger brother Jordan Popyordanov-Ortse, leader of Thessaloniki bombers. In 1989, Petar Popyordanov graduated National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaria in "Acting" in the class of Professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev. He studied at the Czech Republic one year. He has played in the troupes of Theatre "Sofia", Little City Theatre "Off the Channel" and in 1994 - in the National Theater. His most famous theater roles were in performances "Outcasts," "Midsummer Night's Dream," "At the foot of Vitosha Mountain," "The Tempest," "The man who makes the rain," "Kimono", "Decameron," "Ghosts in Naples, "" Hedda Gabler. " Chocho Popyordanov has involved in cinema productions, including "Yesterday" (1988), "Rio Adio" (1989), " The Love Summer of a Schlep " (1990), "Vampires, ghouls" (1992) "Canaries Season" (1993), "Frontier" (1994), "Spanish fly" (1998), "After the end of the world" (1998), "Danube bridge" (1999), "Sombrero blues" (1999), " Wolf Hunt" (2000). Petar Popyordanov has won numerous nominations and awards, including a nomination for "Asker" in 1996 and 1997 and the prize "Golden Bayar" in Belgium for Best Actor in the film "Border". He had also a presence on the small screen, starring in the TV show "UFO Club" on "Channel 1". In 2007 he began his participation in the series "Outcasts" for "Channel 1" of Bulgarian National Television. He has nephews Helen and Peter Koshnicharski. Albeit posthumously Chocho Popyordanov became a father of adopted him months earlier daughter Ekaterina Petrova Popyordanova. He died on May 5, 2013 in Boyana, Sofia Province, Bulgaria, as a result of injuries from a fall.

  • Popularity : 1.106
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1964-06-11
  • Place of Birth : Sofia, Bulgaria
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Petar Popyordanov Movies

  • 1996
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    Orpheus Descending

    Orpheus Descending

    1 1996 HD

    Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him...

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  • 2011
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    The Island

    The Island

    5 2011 HD

    In Paris, Sophie and Daneel make a solid couple. Nothing, it seems, can separate them - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has...

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  • 1989
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    Adio, Rio

    Adio, Rio

    6.6 1989 HD

    Stoev, a talented architect is working in Rio de Janeiro. All along the design stages, Stoev's understanding has been that he would be going together...

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  • 1989
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    Scar-Free

    Scar-Free

    1 1989 HD

    This is a film about a famous Bulgarian wrestler who is forced by the police authorities to work for them. We see a lonely man, tortured by his...

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  • 1993
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    Canary Season

    Canary Season

    9.5 1993 HD

    It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he...

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  • 1988
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    And Where Do We Go from Here?

    And Where Do We Go from Here?

    5.9 1988 HD

    During an imaginary actors exam, in order to choose the best, the jury utilizes immoral ways of selection – spying, making conflicts,...

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  • 1994
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    Granitza

    Granitza

    1 1994 HD

    There is a small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system gradually turns into a murderer.

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  • 1999
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    Сомбреро блус

    Сомбреро блус

    1 1999 HD

    Rock musicians from Plovdiv arrive at a little village pub named "Nirvana" to perform. Pub visitors accept neither them, nor their music. Thrown out...

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  • 2002
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    Ярост

    Ярост

    1 2002 HD

    A young man attempts to save a prostitute from a prostitution ring. His fury is two-sided: on one hand, it is caused by the futility of honesty, on...

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  • 1988
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    Yesterday

    Yesterday

    8 1988 HD

    The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning...

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  • 1992
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    Vampires, Ghouls

    Vampires, Ghouls

    1 1992 HD

    In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized the power. The new rulers do justice according to...

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  • 1991
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    Silence

    Silence

    1 1991 HD

    A young sculptor has been preparing his first exhibition for years. In the autumn of 1962 it becomes a fact. The show provokes a scandal in the...

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  • 1989
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    The Countess

    The Countess

    1 1989 HD

    A teenage girl's rebellion through drugs becomes a metaphor for the struggle between individuality and totalitarianism. Amidst the political upheaval...

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  • 1990
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    The Love Summer of a Schlep

    The Love Summer of a Schlep

    1 1990 HD

    Four friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.

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  • 1989
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    Exitus

    Exitus

    1 1989 HD

    A small town movie theater manager is tortured by childhood trauma of having abandoned his mentally ill brother die in a fire.

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  • 2005
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    Le Dernier Seigneur des Balkans

    Le Dernier Seigneur des Balkans

    4.5 2005 HD

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