A life full of adventures and unexpected twists, dramas and fateful blows – this is the life of actress Ivanka Yanakieva. Fame came to her early, and the chorus of a song popular in the 1930s in Germany says: “The whole of Berlin worships me, I am the Bulgarian Iva Vanya!”. Throughout her long career, she took on many roles and remains the only Bulgarian actress to have made a name for herself in European cinema during its silent film era.