Nikolay Todorov
Directing
Biography
Nikolay Todorov is a Bulgarian director, animator, and artist. Nikolay Todorov was born on February 18, 1952, in Sofia. In 1972, he graduated from the Art High School in Sofia. In 1978, he graduated in animation cinema from VGIK in Moscow, in the class of Ivan Petrovich Ivanov-Vano, who is considered the father of Russian animation. From 1979 to 1987, he worked at the Sofia Animation Film Studio as a director, production designer, animator, and screenwriter. Since 1987, he has worked in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Wiesbaden for ZDF (the second German television channel) as a director, animator, artist, and screenwriter. He has created over 90 animated films. He is the recipient of prestigious international awards. His film Grandomania was selected for the XXXIII International Film Festival in Cannes in 1980 in the category for best animated film. At the International Film Festival in Hiroshima, his film "Odyssey" was selected as one of the ten best animated films of the last thirty years. His film "A Day Like a Dandelion" won the Silver Dragon Award at the Krakow Animation Film Festival in 1983. In 1989, his film "The Last Hour" was awarded the prize for best film. He won the Grand Prix, the Critics' Award, and the Union of Bulgarian Artists Award for Best Visuals at the Varna 2017 World Animation Film Festival for his film Made in Brachycera. The film "Made in Brachycera" won the "Special Jury Prize" at the "Golden Rhyton" festival and others. His films have participated in all renowned world film festivals and forums. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has purchased and owns his films. He has participated in and been head of the jury at film festivals in Ottawa, Zagreb, Espinho, Moscow, Annecy, and others. Todorov has had solo exhibitions in Moscow, New York, Annecy, Espinho, Zagreb, Lucca, Frankfurt, Oberhausen, and elsewhere. He has illustrated many books from Bulgarian and world literature. He was a producer, set designer, and director (together with the great Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi and Henri Koulev) of the play "The Inaccessible." Nikolay Todorov died at the age of 67 after a serious illness on July 17, 2019, in Sofia.
Known For
A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.
Odyssey
A child has soiled his official clothes for his birthday. They beat him. The child in his imagination runs away from Mom and Dad— to the reindeer of the North Pole, to the ostriches in Africa. The smell of the delicious chicken that Mom cooked brings him back.
Day Like a Dandelion
Stadium. The athlete is preparing for the start. He runs down the long jump path. Tension lines his face. He lands, turns into an old man. A person's whole life is one long jump.
The Successful Try
Studio (in French: garçonnière - a place for a bachelor without partition walls). And in the horror of tomorrow's apocalypse and in the exhaustion of yesterday's love even in the fleeting moment of bliss beware of the like The man is a crowd.
Bachelor's Room
This is a series of cartoons. It is united by the poetic texts of Stefan Tsanev, which are intended not only for children. Their irony is directed against selfishness and grandiosity. It is argued that the human dream has more power than vanity.
Story About the Three Ducklings
The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .
Grandomaniya
Grandma drops her spectacles. A mouse, curious, notices it enlarges, and she appears enormous to the cat and the dog, and they scare back. But then Granny takes back her spectacles.