Todor Dinov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Todor Dinov

film director

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1919

Place of Birth: Greece

Date of Death: 17-Jun-2004

Profession: screenwriter, animator, painter, film director

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Todor Dinov

  • Todor Dinov (Bulgarian: ????? ?????) (24 July 1919 – 17 June 2004) is informally known as the Father of Bulgarian Animation.
  • During his lifetime he wrote and directed more than 40 short animated films and several live-action feature films, and was also a popular illustrator, children's book illustrator, painter, graphic artist, comics artist and caricaturist. Dinov was born to a Bulgarian family in Dedeagach in Western Thrace (today Alexandroupoli, Greece) and finished school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
  • He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow under the tutelage of distinguished Soviet animators such as Ivan Ivanov-Vano.
  • Dinov created his own first animated film, Yunak Marko (English: Marko the Hero), in 1955.
  • Perhaps his best-known animated film in the West is the five-minute short Margaritka (English: The Daisy), produced in 1965.
  • The film features a square-shaped little man trying to cut down a daisy and failing, then becoming more and more enraged as he tries increasingly brutal methods against the flower; in the end, the daisy only responds to the love of a child.
  • Oddly, Margaritka won a prize for best children's film even though it was meant for adults. In 1967 he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.He founded the first animation studio in Bulgaria, setting the highest quality professional standards for producing animation in his country.
  • Later, he created the Animation Department (now a separate major) and taught animation classes at the Theatre and Film Arts Institute.
  • Dinov was also a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 1999, Dinov was awarded the highest-rank Bulgarian medal — the Stara Planina order (First Degree).
  • In 2003 he received the Crystal Pyramide Award of the Bulgarian Filmmaker Union for lifetime achievement to the art of Bulgarian animation.
  • He died in Sofia at the age of 84.

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