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Filmmaker · Bulgaria

Zako Heskiya

Died in 2006

Born in 1922 in Istanbul as Isak Solomonov Heskiya, he graduated in 1952 from the school of cinema and photographic technique in Sofia, then was for a long time an assistant and second director before directing his first feature film in the mid-sixties, at over forty. Until 1991, he worked at the Boyana studio on films for the general public and also worked for television. Secretary of the filmmakers' union, he received three Golden Roses at the Varna festival. He died in Sofia in 2006, aged eighty-three.

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