George Dulgerov Bulgarian director screenwriter. He studied at the courses of puppet theater directors. In 1970, he graduated from the directorial faculty of VGIK (I. Talankina’s workshop) in Moscow, filming at the Armenfilm studio the diploma short film Bondar (a prize at the IFF in Oberhausen), which a year later he remade in his homeland under the name “Exam” (a prize at the IFF in Locarno and Mannheim).
From the very beginning of his creative career Dulgersu was characterized by a paradoxical
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George Dulgerov Bulgarian director screenwriter. He studied at the courses of puppet theater directors. In 1970, he graduated from the directorial faculty of VGIK (I. Talankina’s workshop) in Moscow, filming at the Armenfilm studio the diploma short film Bondar (a prize at the IFF in Oberhausen), which a year later he remade in his homeland under the name “Exam” (a prize at the IFF in Locarno and Mannheim).
From the very beginning of his creative career Dulgersu was characterized by a paradoxical transition from externally everyday mundane paintings to equally narrative in the manner but addressed to historical material ("And the day will come" 1973; "Measure for Measure" 1981 film and television version) and then to clearly more metaphorical parables in structure that sometimes caused fierce debates due to unusual stylistics and ambiguous interpretation of several strange characters ("Avantage will come" in the 1977 MF Berlin-78 prize).
The most openly this change of style was demonstrated by Dulgersm in his unexpected appeal to documentary films about rhythmic gymnastics - "About Neshka Robeva and her girls" (1985) and "About girls and their Neshka Robeva" (1986) and after that a similar experience was directed originally and allegorically melted down in the search game film "Akatamus" (1988).
The mysterious-sounding name is deciphered seemingly elementary - the Academy of Dance of Music and Word and in the conditional action about the universal theatricalization of reality, it is easiest to see the influence of American samples of the musical genre - "All this fuss" "Glory" "Cordeballet".
However, Dulgerov borrowing something from Western practice and creatively developing was more concerned with his implicit but persistent sounding theme of "escepticism in a socialist way" the breakthrough of heroes (and of course the author himself) into some inaccessible areas of private life and creative imagination.
The state of “avantage” and stubborn opposition of an individual to the leveling force of the influence of any regime of power is one of the director’s obsessive motives from the thesis “Bondar” to later films “Camp” (1989), “B.G.” (1994 TV film together with S. Ovcharov) and “Black Dove” (1996).