{{Infobox person | name = Rangel Valchanov | image = Rangel-Valchanov-20120622.jpg | caption = Bulgarian actor and director | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|10|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Krivina, Elin Pelin, Bulgaria | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|09|30|1928|10|12|df=y}} | death_place = Sofia, Bulgaria }} {{Family name hatnote|Petrov|Valchanov|lang=Bulgarian}} '''Rangel Petrov Valchanov''' ({{langx|bg|Рангел Петров Вълчанов}}; 12 October 1928 – 30 September 2013) (also seen as '''Vulchanov''') was a Bulgarian cinema actor and director.<ref name="obit-novinite">{{cite news |title=Eminent Bulgarian Film Director Rangel Vulchanov Dies at 84 |url=http://www.novinite.com/articles/154101 |work=novinite.com Sofia News Agency |accessdate=September 30, 2013}}</ref>
He finished theater directing at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1953. He started working as an assistant director and subsequently as a director. Valchanov worked in Czechoslovakia between 1970 and 1972 where he continued to work on films. He became a member of the European film academy and a "People's artist" in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. He was voted as the best Bulgarian film director of the 20th century.
His 1986 film ''Where Are You Going?'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival<ref name= "festival-cannes.com" >{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/907/year/1986.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Where Are You Going? |accessdate=2009-07-17|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> and was entered into the main competition at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.<ref name="Moscow1987">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1987 |title=15th Moscow International Film Festival (1987) |accessdate=2013-02-18 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194338/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1987 |archivedate=2013-01-16 }}</ref>
Rangel Valchanov died on 30 September 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n315790 |title=Bulgaria’s prominent director Rangel Valchanov dies |publisher=focus-fen.net |accessdate=2013-09-30 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
== Partial filmography == === Director === * ''Where Are You Going?'' (1986) * ''Judge and the Forest'' (1975) * ''Ezop'' (1969) * ''The Sun and the Shadow'' (1962) * ''First Lesson'' (1960) * ''On the Small Island'' (1958)
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0904401}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080612052333/http://movie.pop.bg/person23449.html Rangel Vulchanov at movie.pop.bg]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Valchanov, Rangel}} Category:1928 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Bulgarian male film actors Category:Bulgarian film directors Category:People from Sofia City Province Category:Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Category:National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts alumni