Director Mariana Evstatieva-Biolcheva passed away last night. Her husband, Prof. Boyan Biolchev, announced her death, BNT informs.
Mariana Evtimova Evstatieva-Biolcheva is a Bulgarian director, professor of film and TV directing at the New Bulgarian University.
Honorary professor of the New Bulgarian University (2007), director of the master’s program in cinema and TV.
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She graduated in cinema and television directing in Poland. He worked at the Boyana Film Center from 1971 to 1992. From 1996 he taught at the New Bulgarian University, and from 2002 he was the chairman of the Arts Council of the Bulgarian National Theater. Wife of Prof. Boyan Biolchev.
Even with his first films, he showed an interest in the world of children, which he then carried over to feature films. A kind of study of how children perceive the cinema is her cycle of educational films “We Love the Cinema” (1968)
He is the author of over 30 documentaries and popular science and about 20 feature and TV films.
Photo: Personal archive
Her filmography is full of love and recognition: “Abduction in Yellow” (1981), based on Pavel Vezhinov’s story “Incident on the Quiet Street”, with “Silver Lacheno” at the International Film Festival Avelino’83, Italy and the Audience Award of the 14th festival in Gijón, Spain’81; “The Devil’s Weapon” (1982), scripted by Boyan Biolchev, with “Silver Lace” in Avellino, Italy ’83, “Up on the Cherry” (1984), “Looking for a Husband for Mom” (1985) with a Silver Medal from the ICF Moscow’85 and prize from ICF Alanson’87, France, “Amigo Ernesto”(1986), “The Foreign Nephew”(1989) based on the tale “The Young Englishman” by Wilhelm Hauf.
Veselin Prahov and Pavel Poppandov in the film “Looking for a Husband for Mom” (1985), directed by Mariana Evstatieva-Biolcheva and written by Kalina Kovacheva
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“The artistic revelation is the only thing that gives the film a chance to even skip eras. I think that many of the old films for children still have their audience today. But it is important that there is no pedagogical pressure.
Today’s children have a completely autonomous sense of personal space.
I am not sending messages, but sharing thoughts and hopes for the film that should speak to everyone. And the messages are born when you have succeeded with the first one.
Otherwise, art risks resembling a lesson!”, shared the director in interview for Impressio in September of last year on the occasion of the screening of the beloved film “Up on the Cherry” directed by her and written by Rada Moskova.
A frame from the film “Up on the cherry” (1984) by the director Mariana Evstatieva-Biolcheva, based on the script by Rada Moskova
The funeral will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in the “St.Sedmochislenitsi” church at 1:30 p.m.
A deep bow!
