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Todor Dinov (24 July 1919 – 17 June 2004) was a Bulgarian animator 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.[1]
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.
Most Popular Todor Dinov Trailers
Total trailers found: 25
05 September 1977
The police trucks and the piled up dead partisans in the village square shatter the peace of the village.
01 January 1980
A street artist draws pictures on the pavement in Paris, begging for money. After a rain all his paintings are erased so he starts all over.
08 July 1988
Attempts of a mosquito to conquer a lush fly.
01 January 1962
A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them.
01 January 1959
Several short stories, showing what would happen if Prometheus tried to bring the gift of fire to the mankind in 20th century?
01 January 1958
Bulgarian animation
01 April 1963
A short story about 4 brothers, a zmei, and an apple.
01 January 1958
It is only the child who is able to view the world with a pure heart and to laugh at it lovingly and to justify it through laughter.
31 January 1969
In late 19th century, a carver-cutter arrives in a little town to make the iconostasis of the newly built church.
06 December 1974
There is a dragon, which threatens the life of the shacked village. The attempts of lumberjacks, shepherds and hunters to get rid of the menace are without success.
27 March 1967
In a concert, one of the musicians suddenly rushed to the sky. There he waits at St. Peter's Gate to be received.
24 October 1987
When a dragon comes to an quiet rural village and steals 1 apple from a tree the village people get into quite a bustle.
01 January 1980
11 short satirical stories about the marvelous misadventures of the Three Fools. This is the tale from 1980 about the three raising a baby.
01 January 1959
Bulgarian fairytale animation
02 February 1961
Two singers quarrel over a not-so-agitated scene that the film they are in gets stuck and later breaks.
19 July 1963
A composer writes music at the piano. The notes come alive. One of them turns into a cowboy. He is courting a beautiful lady.
04 May 1965
Neither scissors nor saw will help the gardener to get rid of a daisy that has had the audacity to grow in the wrong place, but she herself cannot resist the gaze of a little girl.
24 July 1973
An artist's hand tries to draw a drummer with various tools and techniques, but he cannot do it for some reason.
18 November 1983
A madhouse. Everyone can do whatever they want. One crawls, and the other walks on the ceiling. The third one hangs from the lampshade.
10 May 1956
An animated short film.
28 April 1986
In winter, the zoo is sad. The children stare at the empty cages. The snowball explodes the monotony, evokes colors and music.
04 August 1970
Bulgarian animation film
01 January 1971
Bulgarian animation film
01 January 1975
Bulgarian animation film
