Veselin_Branev
Veselin Branev
Bulgarian film director, screenwriter, film critic and writer
Veselin Nedelchev Branev (Bulgarian: Веселин Неделчев Бранев; 28 April 1932 - 21 February 2014) was a Bulgarian film director, screenwriter, film critic and writer.
The brother of the director Georgi [bg], Branev graduated in law at the Sofia University, and then studied film directing in Berlin.[1] From 1957 he was active as a screenwriter at Boyana Film,[1] and in 1983 he made his directorial film debut with Hotel Central, which was entered into the competition at the 40th Venice International Film Festival to large critical acclaim.[2]
Branev was also active as a columnist and film critic, working for prominent publications such as Narodna kultura [bg] and Narodna mladezh [bg].[1] In 1997 he moved to Canada, where he mainly focused on his literary activity.[1] His 2007 semi-autobiographical novel Sledeniyat chovek (Следеният човек, "The tracked man"), raised a critical stir and large controversies in his home country.[1][3]
During his life he was the recipient of several awards and accolades, including the Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and the Golden Rose Award.[1] He died on 21 February 2014, at the age of 81.[1]
- Димитрова, Маринели. "Веселин Бранев". dictionarylit-bg.eu (in Bulgarian). Dictionary of Bulgarian Post-Liberation Culture. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- Goulding, Daniel J. (1989). Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-253-34559-2.
- Luca, Ioana (2015). "Secret Police Files, Tangled Life Narratives: Te 1.5 generation of Communist surveillance". Biography. 38 (3). University of Hawai'i Press: 363–394. ISSN 0162-4962. JSTOR 24570336. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
