Cinema
The Double
Двойникът
Nikolay Volev · 1980
Synopsis
Docent Denev, an esteemed scholar, no longer has an hour to himself: meetings, committees and public obligations eat up the time for his thesis. He brings his cousin Ivan from the provinces, a shop manager versed in schemes, who looks exactly like him. From then on Ivan shows up wherever an official presence is required, while the docent devotes himself to research. But the double takes a liking to his new life and gradually encroaches on the scholar's.
Context
It is its director's first feature film, written by the Mormarev brothers, who also wrote the 1972 summer film for children in the same catalogue. Todor Kolev plays both roles, that of the scientist and that of the cousin, surrounded by Pavel Poppandov, Yordanka Kouzmanova and Georgi Roussev; the cinematography is by Venko Kableshkov. The film was produced in 1979 at the Boyana studio and was released on Bulgarian screens in the spring of the following year.
Who it is for
A comedy of an hour and a half, carried by a single actor in two roles; nothing has been located in French.
Prizes and reception
Prizes for screenplay, male performance and costumes at the Varna festival, and the first-film prize of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers.
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