Wagenstein, Angel

Born into a Sephardic family, his first language was Ladino ^{[1] [2]} . Participated in the partisan movement during the Second World War, was sentenced to death ^[3] . In 1950 he graduated from VGIK (workshop of Leo Arnshtam ). He wrote scripts for feature films, documentaries and animated films. Member of the BKP since 1941.

In 1990 he was elected deputy of the 7th Bulgarian Grand National Assembly from the BSP .

He has two children: book publisher Raymond Wagenstein and cameraman Plamen Wagenstein (genus. 1945).

The author of the trilogy:

• The Pentateuch of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld
• Goodbye Shanghai!
• Avram Alkash, or Away from Toledo

In Russian

• The Pentateuch of Isaac, or the Life of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld, who went through two world wars, three concentration camps and five homelands. Per. from Bulgarian Y. Golyakova . - SPb .: Aletheia, 2002. - 320 p. ^[4] .
• Twentieth Century. Exiles (“The Pentateuch of Isaac,” “Away from Toledo (Life of Avram Gulyaki)”, “Farewell, Shanghai!”). Translated by Valentina Yarmilko, edited by Sergey Baru. Sofia: Kolibri IC, 2011; M .: Center for the Book of Rudomino, 2013. - 784 p.

Screenwriter

• 1951 - Anxiety / Anxiety (based on the play by Orlin Vasilev )
• 1952 - Our Land / Our Land (with Veselin Hanchev and Chaim Oliver )
• 1954 - Heroes of September / Septemvriytsi
• 1956 - Two victories / Two victories (with Christ Ganev and Veselin Khanchev )
• 1958 - Law of the Sea / Law on Sea (with Haim Oliver )
• 1958 - Adam's Rib / Adam's Rib
• 1958 - Stars / Sterne ( Bulgaria - GDR )
• 1960 - Snowman / Sneghniyat Chovek (c / m)
• 1962 - Two under heaven / Dvama under nebeto
• 1964 - Chain / Verigata
• 1965 - The Chronicle of One Murder / Chronik eines Mordes ( GDR )
• 1966 - The Little Prince / Der kleine Prinz ( GDR , TV, by Saint-Exupery )
• 1968 - Secrets / Heimlichkeiten ( GDR )
• 1969 - Aesop / Ezop
• 1971 - Goya, or the Crude Path of Knowledge / Goya - oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis ( USSR - GDR , after the novel by Lyon Feuchtwanger )
• 1972 - Eolomey / Eolomey
• 1974 - Life and Death / On the Belly and Smirth (TV, based on the novel by Dimitar Angelov )
• 1976 - Addendum to the law on state protection / Supplementing the law for the protection of a javasuta (in the Soviet box office "The explosion in the Sofia Cathedral")
• 1976 - Stars in the hair, tears in the eyes / Stars in the mow, slit in the eye
• 1980 - / Concerto for flute and momich
• 1984 - Boris I / Boris I
• 1985 - Shore in the Fog / Muglivi Bregove ( Bulgaria - USSR , with Budimir Metalnikov )
• 1985 - Brothel / Μπορντέλο
• 1997 - Shanghai 1937 / Shanghai 1937 (TV, based on the novel by Wicky Baum )
• 1998 - After the End of the World / Trace Edges to the World

• 1953 - Dimitrov Prize (" Our Land ")
• 1959 - Special Jury Prize of the 12th Cannes Film Festival (" Stars ")
• 1971 - National Prize of the GDR (" Goya, or hard path of knowledge ")
• 1978 - Honored Worker of Culture of the NRB
• 2003 - Order “Stara Planina” I degree
• 2013 - Pushkin Medal ( Russia , January 19, 2013 ) - for his great contribution to the strengthening and development of friendship and cooperation with the Russian Federation ^[5]

• Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. S.I. Yutkevich Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. - p. 64

• Angel Wagenstein on the Internet Movie Database
• Angel Wagenstein on KinoPoisk