Itzhak Fintzi

Itzhak Fintzi's stage career began in 1955 in Dimitrovgrad, straight out of the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, and continued in Burgas before the capital's companies claimed him: the Satirical Theatre from 1960, Theatre Sofia for two decades from 1967, then the Youth Theatre and the Little City Theatre Off the Channel. Born in Sofia in 1933, he worked on screen as well as on stage, in The Hare Census, Villa Zone, A Cricket in the Ear and Belated Full Moon among many others, and in voice recording and writing. The Askeer award for lifetime achievement came in 1993 according to the National Film Center, the Order of Stara Planina, First Class, in 2004. Music stayed part of his stage work, in appearances with Todor Kolev and in playing the violin, and his career became the subject of the 1981 documentary Itsko.