Biography

Tanya Shahova

Actress
Writer

Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Valentina. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cell phone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to contact his wife. His son Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way. "The Father" is an intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us. As the picture slowly gathers momentum, its story unfolds many carefully arranged absurd or comic situations.

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The Father (2019)

Tanya Atanasova Shahova is a Bulgarian actress. She was born in the city of Sofia on October 17, 1959. Even before finishing the school she played one of the main roles in the film "Swap", directed by Georgi Djulgerov. Then she entered National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia and graduated it in 1982 with a degree in acting in the class of Professor Nikolay Lyutskanov and his assistant Margarita Mladenova. Her diploma performance was the role of Antigona in the play "Antigona" by Jean Anouilh, directed by Georgi Djulgerov. Then Tanya Shahova became an actress in the troupe of Dimitrovgrad Theater, where she played another two important roles: Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Georgi Djulgerov and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare, directed by Margarita Mladenova. In 1983 Tanya Shahova received the Union of Bulgarian Actors' Award for the Promising Young Actress. She became a staff member of Theater "Sfumato", where he played until 2000. In Theater "Sfumato" Lyubomir Mladenov and Vladimir Penev directed her first play "Amant". Tanya Shahova is author of documentary plays "The day that changed my life", "Twenty years later", "Souls", she wrote the screenplays for documentaries "And we were Knights," "Box", "Love is ...". Her play "Two" was staged in National Theater, Sofia, Bulgaria.