Nevena Kokanova
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 was born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria and is most renowned for her role as Lisa in The Peach Thief. She started her career at 18 as an apprentice actor with the Yambol Theater in Yambol, Bulgaria. In 1975 she was a member of the jury at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1980 she starred in and co-directed Three Deadly Sins with Lyubomir Sharlandzhiev. She died in Sofia.
The Peach Thief
as LisaThe wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of...
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Before and After the Victory
as Medicinskata sestraA newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal...
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Tobacco
as IrinaBoris Morev dreams of money and power, he’ll do everything to reach the top, including leaving...
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Galileo
as MarinaA humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of...
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Dangerous Charm
as BoryanaHe is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a...
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The Inspector and the Night
as JanaA classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov
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Detour
as NedaOn the road one day two people meet again after seventeen years. They'd had a brief, burning...
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Canary Season
as Aunt AddieIt's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for...
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The Boy Turns Man
as TinkaThe action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only...
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Cyclops
as ZoyaThe main character is a commander of a nuclear powered submarine. Once a very promising...
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Salvation
as BakardzhievaBulgarian prisoners of war escape from the Germans in the town of Ohrid.
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Ladies' Choice
as Golyamata etarvaA couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of...
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The Last Bachelor
as FanyThe middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely...
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My Father, the Painter
as the motherA former history teacher, currently a house painter is broke before the New Year. Faith meets...
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
as MariaThe film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The...
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Don't Go Away!
as TinkaThe charming young man Ran is a director in a school in his hometown. His classmate Mariana is...
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Dangerous Flight
as uncreditedProfessor Dimov is a diplomat who has been recruited as a spy by a foreign intelligence service....
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Die Mahnung
as uncreditedThe action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the...
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Matriarchy
as uncreditedThe film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a...
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Be Happy, Ani!
as AniAni, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend...
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Queen of Turnovo
as SmilovaThe action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town,...
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Love
as IrinaMaria is having great difficulty getting on with her parents because of their blind, consumerist...
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The Three Deadly Sins
as DonaPavel Pashev receives a package with three shrunk up apples - three vampire apples. According to...
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Circles of Love
as The woman with almond eyesA story about three brothers, Petar, Angel and Vasil, each one joins the fight against fascism...
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Men on a Business Trip
as DanchetoThree separate novels are dealing with the never-ending problem of men's infidelity. How should...
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The Longest Night
as Woman-DoctorThe action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a...
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Forest People
as uncredited1929. The owners of a roadside hotel-a man and a woman-kill the merchant. To solve the murder,...
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Rootless Tree
as Daughter-in-lawHaving remained alone in his village house, old Gatyo must move in with his son and...
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Years for Love
as EmaDr Ganevski leaves his wife Maria and his grown-up children Rositza and Chavdar for Dr...
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Memories of the Twin Sister
as NevenaA family evacuates to the Bulgarian countryside during World War II
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Karambol
as Ана МартиноваIn a large provincial town, two friends Nasko and Raycho meet Emil, a conductor in the opera,...
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Little Tiger
as The MotherThe five-year-old kid Dimo must go to the kindergarten. He is not used to talking to the other...
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This Fine Mature Age
as ElenaAn older man of high social standing begins to understand that he's not as perfect as he believed.
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Constantine The Philosopher
as uncreditedThe story of St. Cyrilus (Constantine The Philosopher) in his quest of enlightening the Slavic...
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On a Quiet Evening
as BoykaChased by the military police force, the partisans Boyka and Anton take refuge in a cave. A...
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Taste of Almonds
as GerdaA hairdresser Gerda has an affair with Dr Nikodimov, a married man past his prime. Savarinova...
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