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"Tevno lake" is a shelter located in Pirin Mountain, on the eastern shore of Tevno lake in Belemeto Circus, at 2512 m above sea level.
Athene noctua
Ruse, Bulgaria
A female specimen is staring intently at the lens.
Vintage Bulgarian postcard, 1960s. Nevena Kokanova in the Bulgarian film Tyutyun/ Tobacco (Nikola Korabov, 1962). Bulgarska fotografia, Sofia.
Nevena Kokanova (Bulgarian: Невена Коканова) (12 December 1938 – 3 June 2000) was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner.
Vintage Bulgarian postcard, 1960s. Ivan Andonov in the Bulgarian film Anketa/ An Investigation (Kiril Anchilev, 1963).
Ivan Andonov (Bulgarian: Иван Асенов Андонов; born 3 May 1934 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; died 29 December 2011 in Sofia, ) was a Bulgarian actor, film director and painter.
Andonov, born in Plovdiv in 1934, trained at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia until 1956 and then worked as an actor at various theatres in Sofia. Andonov came to film as early as 1957 and made his screen debut in the film Godini sa ljubow (Years of Love). He subsequently became one of Bulgaria's most popular actors and also appeared in international productions, including the East-German science fiction film Eolomea (Wolfgang Zschoche, 1972), in which he acted opposite Dutch stage and screen actress Cox Habbema, and the Hungarian film Magasiskola (The Falcons, 1970) by István Gaál. From 1963, Andonov was also active as an animated and feature film director.
Sources: German Wikipedia, IMDb.
Vintage Bulgarian postcard, 1960s. Nevena Kokanova in the Bulgarian film Tyutyun/ Tobacco (Nikola Korabov, 1962). Bulgarska fotografia, Sofia.
Nevena Kokanova (Bulgarian: Невена Коканова) (12 December 1938 – 3 June 2000) was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner.
Vintage Bulgarian postcard, 1960s. Photo Edition, Sofia.
Nevena Kokanova (Bulgarian: Невена Коканова) (12 December 1938 – 3 June 2000) was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner.
Kokanova initially attended a commercial school and played Juliet at the theatre in Yambol, which is now named after her, without any acting training. It was there that director Yanko Yankov discovered her and cast her in the role of Emma in his 1957 film Godini sa ljubow. Her talent was so convincing that, after stints at the theatres in Gabrovo and Russe, she was engaged at the State Satirical Theatre ‘Aleko Konstantinov’ in Sofia, where she was successful in the role of Maria Antonova in Gogol's Revisor, among others.
In cinema, she often played female characters in conflict between love and a sense of duty, who nevertheless knew how to assert themselves with feminine charm. She appeared together with all the important Bulgarian actors, including Ivan Andonov, Georgi Georgiev-Gez and Georgi Kaloyanchev. At the national film festival in Varna, she was honoured several times with the acting award, including in 1963 for her role as Irina in Nikola Korabov's Tobacco/ Tyutyun, in 1964 for her role as Lisa alongside the Yugoslav actor Rade Marković in Vulo Radev's The Peach Thief/ Kradezat na praskowi, in 1967 for her roles in Ljubomir Sharlandzhiev's S dach na bademi and in the film Detour/ Otklonenie, directed by Grisha Ostrovski and Todor Stoyanov, and in 1973 for her role as a teacher in Sharlandzhiev's The Kindest Person I Know/ Naj-dobrijat tschowek, kogoto posnawam!.
Kokanova co-directed the 1980 film Trite smartni grjacha with Ljubomir Sharlandzhiev. Under the direction of Juan Antonio Bardem, she starred in the award-winning 1982 film The Admonition, a film biography of the Bulgarian Comintern leader Georgi Dimitrov, a co-production between Bulgaria, the GDR and the Soviet Union. She was honoured with several national awards as a Meritorious Artist (1967), People's Artist (1974) and the Dimitrov Prize (1986).
Sources: German Wikipedia, IMDb.
