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Eduard Zahariev

Eduard Zahariev

actor · director
Eduard Zahariev was born on July 1st, 1938 in Moscow, USSR. Eduard Zahariev graduated from the Budapest Film School in 1961, and made his feature film debut in 1967, with If a Train isn't Coming. One of Bulgaria's foremost filmmakers, Zahariev's films constantly brought him into conflict with the authorities, and after the fall of communism he found it equally hard to adapt to the new realities of the market economy. Eduard Zahariev died of cancer shortly after finishing the rough cut of Late Full Moon, and never got to see the finished film. «Doctors say that tobacco killed him. What they didn't know was that he had lived through World War II, sharing his parents' anxiety about Russian emigration; that he had gone to school during the Stalinist era; that he was in Budapest in 1956; that he had written courageous scripts in difficult years; that he wasn't allowed to work for years because of censorship [...] May Eduard rest in peace, and if there is an afterlife for filmmakers, may he join those he respected and loved, who also left us much too early: Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Paradjanov.» (Istvan Szabo, Budapest, February 1997).
2 as actor
5 as director
0 as writer
0 as cinematographer

Awards and Nominations

1976

Special Prize of the Jury

For the movie Vilna zona (1975)

1986

Golden Berlin Bear

For the movie Skypa moq, skypi moi (1986)

1997

Crystal Globe

For the movie Zakysnqlo pylnolunie (1996)

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Filmography - As a Director:

1970s •

Year Movie
1977

Myjki vremena

There were times when stealing girls in these lands has... [more]
1975

Vilna zona

A common Bulgarian family spends a warm afternoon in th... [more]
1973

Prebroqvane na divite zaici

The census taker Asenov - a narrow-minded employee at a... [more]
1972

Stomana
1970

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Filmography - As an Actor:

1970s •

Year Movie Role
1974

Dnevna svetlina
1973

I doide denqt

Action takes place during one day - 9.09... [more]

 Pandurski
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