My TOP 6 Favorite BULGARIAN Directors
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Rangel Vulchanov was one of the few Bulgarian directors who had not studied in Moscow. He graduated from a vocational high school and the Theatrical Institute, worked as assistant director five years; in 1956 was Sharaliev's second unit director in Two Victories. After the critique of On a Small Island, he also was employed as a second-unit director in 1958 in Stars, a co-production between Bulgaria and East Germany that was directed by Konrad Wolf. Rangel Vulchanov was a director of nearly 20 Bulgarian movies and script-writer of another 8 films. He also performed in several movies as well as on the theatre stage in Bulgaria. Rangel Vulchanov was elected best Bulgarian film director of the 20th century. He was a member of the European Film Academy and a laureate of many Bulgarian and international awards. Rangel Vulchanov was an original maker who used his imagination to make experiments in his films. In The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes (1979), shot through the view of a seven-year old child, the renowned director takes us through the one-time Bulgarian village and its ancient traditions all the way to the Buckingham Palace. The movie is a mixture of fabulous scenes and great sense of humor and the characters of the classical rural Bulgaria stand engraved in our memory. One of the brightest roles of Rangel Vulchanov at the theatre stage was in Lazaritsa mono play written by the classic of the Bulgarian literature Yordan Radichkov. Rangel Vulchanov was quite ill during the last years of his life. However, he managed to write three books. One of them was entitled "We will all die, and now Cheers!"- Director
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Vulo Radev (1 January 1923 - 28 March 2001) was a Bulgarian film director, writer and cinematographer. Radev was born in a village Lesidren. In 1953, Radev graduated from the filming faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His first film, a documentary, appeared in 1952. Radev later filmed Citizens of Dimitrovgrad (1956), On the Eve (1959, adapted from I. S. Turgenev's novel), and Tobacco (1962). In his first own film, The Peach Thief (1964, adapted from Emiliyan Stanev's novella), Vulo Radev expresses his anguish for modern man (along the lines of Godart and Antonioni) through the love story between the Serbian Officer Ivo, a prisoner of war at the concentration camp of the Bulgarians, and Lisa, the wife of the city's commander - a great love story amidst the inhuman hatred of war. The critics praise the excellent artistic knowledge; sensitivity in conception and structure of the subject matter; as well as excellent guiding of actors. As a chamber piece, the drama was made in the style of the then popular realistic psychological literature. Radev used the same style in his next film The King and The General (1966), a story of the conflict between King Boris III and General Zaimov, who tried in the beginning of the World War II to prevent both Bulgarian's alliance with Germany and its entry into the war against Soviet Union. Radev broke a number of conventions in this film too. Other films directed by him include The Longest Night (1967), Doomed Souls (1975, adapted from Dimitar Dimov's novella), and The Black Angels (1970). In 1981, he directed Adaptation, a film addressing issues of insanity. Radev received the Dimitrov Prize in 1969.- Actor
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Ivan Andonov graduated from the National Academy of Theater and Film Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1956. He is one of the most important Bulgarian cinema actors. Since 1965 he is a director and designer in animation. The films 'Difficulty', 'Esperanza' and 'Melodrama' bring him international awards and recognition. His début in features is in 1974 as a director of 'Difficult Love'. 'The Roof' won the Critic's Award in Varna, Bulgaria in 1978. 'White Magis' won Silver Prize in Cadiz, Spain. 'Dangerous Charm' won Grand Prix in Chianchiano, Italy, 1985 and Special Prize of the Jury in Chamrousse, France, in 1988. 'Dreamers' won First Prize in Varna, Bulgaria. 'Yesterday' won the Viewers, Award in Varna, Bulgaria, Grand Prix in San Remo, Italy, 1989, and Best Director Award in Moscow, 1989.- Director
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Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director. Kirkov was among the prominent Bulgarian film and theatre directors from the last decades of the 20th century. He directed some of the most popular Bulgarian films of that time, most notably The Swedish Kings (1968), The Boy Turns Man (1972), A Peasant on a Bicycle (1974), Matriarchy (1977) and A Nameless Band (1982). He received the Silver Prize for the film Balance (1983) at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. In the 1975, Kirkov was nominated for the Golden Prize at the Ninth Moscow International Film Festival for the film A Peasant on a Bicycle.- Actor
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Aleksandr Morfov was born on November 9, 1960, in Yambol, Bulgaria. He is a Bulgarian theater and cinema director. Morfov's father was an officer, and his mother was a teacher in Russian language and literature, music, and also a conductor of a folklore choir in Sliven. After Morfov graduated from the Mathematical high school he attended lectures for two years in the Technical University in Varna. Morfov's theater career began in student's years, when he participated as an assistant stage director in Stoyan Alexiev's theater company. After quitting university he began working in the Sliven Theater as a stage worker and later light manager. In 1984 he was enrolled in the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art in Sofia. He graduated from the Academy with a double major in stage directing for drama and puppet theater (1990) in the class of Julia Ognyanova and cinema directing (1994) in the class of Georgi Djulgerov. His earliest works on a professional stage are in the Rhodope Drama Theater, where he was the author and director of the satire "Political cabaret" (1990). He was invited to work at the Little City Theatre "Off the Channel" where he staged "Pere Ubu" by Alfred Jarry (1991), followed by "The Tempest" (1992) and "Hamlet" by Shakespeare in the "La Strada" Theater. From 1994 to 2000 he has been occupying the position Chief director at the "Ivan Vazov" National Theatre of Bulgaria. Morfov's first shows at the National Theatre were his original version of "Don Quixote" by Cervantes and a revised version of "The Tempest". These two performances gave start to a whole new process of attracting young and modern-thinking audience to the theater. With his next production "Midsummer night's Dream" by Shakespeare, Alexander Morfov became one of the most popular theater directors in Bulgaria. His original version of "The Decameron, or Passion and Blood" after Boccaccio, also bears the traits of his stylistics. "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Gorky is Morfov's way of sharply stating his civil opinion without betraying his typical theatricality. "Exiles" (2004), after a novel by Ivan Vazov, the national poet and writer, is the logical continuation to the latter. Among others, his productions on the leading stage in the country include: "Night of Miracles" after Beckett, Mrozek and Ionesco; "Don Juan" by Moliere; "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Life Is Beautiful" after Nikolai Erdman's "The Suicide". In 2000 he was appointed Managing and Artistic director of the "Ivan Vazov" National Theater. He was dismissed from this position following a major conflict with the Ministry of Culture in Bulgaria. All of his productions were taken off the theater's repertory. Since 2001 he has been successfully working in Russia. His first show "The Tempest" in the "Komissarzhevskaya" Theatre was a landmark event in St. Petersburg's theater life and was honored with Russia's most prestigious award in the field of theater "The Golden Mask". After that he was invited in Moscow, in the Theater of the famous Russian actor Alexander Kalyagin, "Et cetera", where he staged "Don Quixote" and "Pere Ubu" with Kalyagin in the leading role. Both productions were nominated for "The Golden Mask" and Alexander Kalyagin received the award for "Best Performance" for the role of Father Ubu. Between 2003 and 2006 he was appointed Chief stage director in the "Komissarzhevskaya" theatre in St. Petersburg where he staged five productions and received the premium "Golden Soffit" for "Don Juan" by Moliere and was again nominated for "The Golden Mask". His productions "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" with Alexandr Abdulov and "The Visit of the Old Lady" with Maria Mironova in "Lenkom" Theater also proved to be significant events in Moscow's theatre life. Morfov has received more than twenty national and international theater awards. In 2005 he worked in the USA with Mikhail Baryshnikov on the theater project "Doctor and Patient" by Rezo Gabriadze. In 2006 he returned to the National Theatre of Bulgaria as a Chief stage director. Morfov's shows were presented at international theater festivals in Vienna, Casablanca, Kiev, Torun, Ohrid, Belgrade, Wroclaw, Hamburg. He has numerous successful projects in Europe - France, Sweden, Macedonia, Romania, Latvia, and in Israel. He was working at the "Ion Luca Caragiale" National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania, staging "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Morfov is also a cinema director and scriptwriter. He is as successful as a cinema actor with roles in "Ivan and Alexandra", "Friends of Emily", "The Last Sunday", "The Goat Horn", "The Love Summer of a Schlep", "Travel to Jerusalem" and others. He is married to the actress Reni Vrangova with whom he has two daughters - Neda and Sara.- Director
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Ludmil Staikov is a stage and film director. He was born in Sofia on 18 October 1937. He graduated in Theatre Directing from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1960. At the start of his career he staged many productions at the Drama Theatre in the coastal city of Burgas that won awards at national theatre festivals. He continued his successful career at the Youth Theatre in Sofia. After that he directed a series of documentaries and programs for the Bulgarian National Television. His debut in the feature film cinema was Affection, which was awarded the Golden Prize at the 1973 Moscow International Film Festival. Some of his best known films are Illusion (1980), Khan Asparouh (1981) and Time of Violence (1988). He is Professor of Film and TV Directing, and in 2004 was elected Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.