European Film Festival. The East German movie Eolomea is based on one of his works. He is married to Zora, with whom he has two sons, Raymond and Plamen. He turned 100 in October 2022. Prizes and nominations "Farewell, Shanghai" Jean Monnet Prize of European literature 2004 Shortlisted for VICK 2004 annual prize Nomination for the international literary prize of Haus der Kulturen in Berlin "Isaac's Torah" Hristo Botev annual prize 1998 Adei Wizo Literary Prize 2010 "Far from Toledo" Bulgarian Writers Association annual prize 2002 “” for Sepharade literature 2003 Selected filmography Two Victories (dir. Borislav Sharaliev, 1956) Stars (dir. Konrad Wolf, 1959) Two Under the Sky (dir. Borislav Sharaliev, 1962) The Story of a Murder (dir. , 1965) — based on the novel Die Jünger Jesu by Leonhard Frank) (dir. Konrad Wolf, 1966, TV film) — based on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (dir. Wolfgang Staudte, 1968) Aesop (dir. Rangel Valchanov, 1970) Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (dir. Konrad Wolf, 1971) — based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger Eolomea (dir. Herrmann Zschoche, 1972) Dopalnenie kam zakona za zashtita na darzhavata (dir. Ludmil Staikov, 1976) Stars in Her Hair, Tears in Her Eyes (dir. Ivan Nitchev, 1977) Boris I (dir. Borislav Sharaliev, 1985) Bordello (dir. Nikos Koundouros, 1985) Coasts in the Mist (dir. Yuli Karasik, 1986) Shanghai 1937 (dir. Peter Patzak, 1997, TV film) — based on a novel by Vicki Baum After the End of the World (dir. Ivan Nitchev, 1998) References External links IMDb entry Angel Wagenstein: Art Is a Weapon at IMDb Brief Biography Brief Biography Film credits Reference on the Bulgarian Writers' Union website S. A. Gerasimov All-Union State Institute for Cinematography Всероссийский государственный университет кинематографии им. С.А. Герасимова http://www.colibri.bg/resultsb.php?book=412 http://www.colibri.bg/resultsb.php?book=43 http://www.colibri.bg/resultsb.php?book=44 1922 births Living people Bulgarian people of Jewish descent 20th-century Sephardi Jews 21st-century Sephardi Jews 20th-century Bulgarian people Bulgarian screenwriters Male screenwriters 20th-century Bulgarian novelists 21st-century Bulgarian novelists Jewish novelists Bulgarian male writers Bulgarian expatriates in France Film people from Plovdiv Writers from Plovdiv Bulgarian resistance members Bulgarian prisoners sentenced to death People condemned by Nazi courts Bulgarian centenarians Men centenarians