Itzhak Fintzi

Fintzi was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1933.^[1]

He graduated at the National Academy for Theater and Film Arts "Krastyo Sarafov" (Sofia, Bulgaria) in 1955 and in the same year began his career at the Municipal Theatre "Apostol Karamitev" - Dimitrovgrad (1955–1957). After that he performed at the Drama Theater "Adriana Budevska" - Burgas (1957 - 1960). Then he moved to Sofia.

In the period 1960 - 1966, he was part of the theatrical troupe of the Satiritical Theater "Aleko Konstantinov".

In the period 1967 - 1988 he performed at "Theater Sofia". The following two years he worked at the National Theater for youth "Lyudmila Zhivkova" (1988 - 1990). In 1990 he joined the theatrical troupe of the Little City Theatre "Off The Channel".

He performed on the stage of Theatre 199 "Valentin Stoychev". His footprints are placed on the Wall of fame there.

Aside from his stage work, Itzko Fintzi has starred in numerous Bulgarian films like "The Hare Census", "Villa Zone", "Belated Full Moon", "A Cricket in the Ear", "William Shakespeare: The Most Famous Person Who Never Existed".

In 2017, alongside the film director Liza Boeva, he created the educational platform for courses and lectures on Arts for children and adults - "Filizi 33". Among their recent courses are: "Italian and Northern Renaissance", "Hieronymus Bosch", "Pieter Brueghel The Elder", "Franz Kafka", "Oscar Wilde", and others.

Itzko performs in various theatrical lecture-spectacles like "Who killed Romeo and Juliet?" (2018, director: Liza Boeva, City Art Mark Center, Sofia, Bulgaria), "The Black Square" (2021, director: Liza Boeva, Little City Theatre "Off The Channel"), "The Master and Margarita". Bulgakov and the authority" (2022, director: Liza Boeva, Little City Theatre "Off The Channel").

• "II prize", "for a male role" for the role of the old man from the play "When the Roses Dance" (1962)
• "II Prize" for the film "The Hare Census" (Varna, 1973)
• Critic's Award for the film "The Hare Census" (Varna, 1973)
• Honored Artist (1979)
• "Award of the CS of the SBP" "for acting achievement" for the role of Shiyaka in the film "Elegy" (Varna, 1982)
• The award "for a male role" for the role of Dimitar Lukov in the film "The Great Love of D. Lukov" (1983)
• The prize "for a male role" for the role of Hrily in the play "Puk" at the International Festival of Puppet Theaters (Varna, 1984)
• SBFD Best Actor Award for role in Belated Full Moon (1997)
• Askeer Lifetime Achievement Award (1991)
• Best Actor Award: at the International Television Film Festival - Prague
• "Best Actor" Award: at the "Golden Rose" International Film Festival - Varna
• "Best Actor" Award: at the Festival of Small Theater Forms - Vratsa
• Best Actor Award: Sofia Film Fest
• Order "Stara Planina" - 1st degree (2004)

• "Talks with Karel Čapek"
• "Sisyphus and Death" (Robert Merle) - Death
• "The Threepenny Opera" (Bertolt Brecht)
• "Molière" (Mikhail Bulgakov) - Molière
• "The Birthday Party" (Harold Pinter) - Stanley
• "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!" (Dario Fo)
• "The Light Is Lost At The Fifth Lamp"
• "Bedbug" (Vladimir Mayakovsky), 1960
• "The End of the Beginning" (Sean O'Casey), director: Metodi Andonov, 1965

- The Oppenheimer Affair (1988) (Heiner Kiphart), 2 parts
- The Judge and the Yellow Rose (by Georgi Danailov, directed by Margarita Mladenova) (1984)
- Looking for a new mother (1983) (Olga Krasteva)
- Big and Little Claus (1971) (Hans Christian Andersen) - Musical
- Dialogues (1970) (Krastyu Pishurka)
- The World is Small (1968) (Ivan Radoev)
- Ambrosio Kills Time (1966), Musical
- The Hospital Room (1964)

Itzko Fintzi is a voice over actor for many audio tales of children stories like "Putz, Zhalturko and friends", "Pop!", "Nils Holgersson and the White Goose", "The Ebony Horse", "Robinson Crusoe" and others.

He is a voice over actor for many of Filizi 33's projects (audio lectures, documentary movie-lectures, feature films, short films and others).