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Angel Raymond Wagenstein (Bulgarian: Анжел Раймонд Вагенщайн; 17 October 1922 – 29 June 2023) was a Bulgarian screenwriter and author. Wagenstein was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, but spent his childhood in France where his Jewish family emigrated for political reasons due to their leftist politics.
Angel Wagenstein (1922 - 2023) was a Bulgarian-Jewish filmmaker, novelist, playwright, civic and political activist and distinguished intellectual. During the WWII he was interned in a labour camp for Jews.
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- Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Bulgaria
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II.
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Jan 1, 2004 · Angel Wagenstein, Deliana Simeonova (Translator), Elizabeth Frank (Translator) 3.65. 213 ratings36 reviews. The unforgettable novel of nearly forgotten refugees who fled Nazi Germany, and discovered the glamour and excess of Shanghai.
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Angel Raymond Wagenstein (Bulgarian: Анжел Раймонд Вагенщайн) is a Bulgarian film director and author. Wagenstein was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, but spent his childhood in France where his Sephardic Jewish family emigrated for political reasons due to their leftist politics.
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- October 17, 1922
Jan 29, 2024 · The Jewish Communist partisan Angel Wagenstein was sentenced to death in 1944 — but he lived until 2023. From his Bulgarian homeland to postwar East Berlin, the filmmaker and novelist devoted his century of life to telling the stories of the persecuted.
Angel Wagenstein was a well-known intellectual and public figure in Bulgaria’s cultural and political scene throughout his life. After the dissolution of the socialist bloc in 1990, he served in Bulgaria’s first democratically elected Parliament for one-and-a-half terms, before leaving in protest of the financial corruption that was ...
