Short film
Marko the Hero
Юнак Марко
Todor Dinov · 1955
Synopsis
An animated film that brings to the screen Krali Marko, the hero of popular epic songs, whom Bulgarian tradition holds to be the legendary protector of its people. The film takes up the motifs of this sung epic and gives the hero a drawing close to reality, a still timid stylisation and a grave tone, in the manner of the great American animation studios. The episodes of the legend that it retains are not known.
Context
It is its author's graduation film, a twenty-two-minute animated film released in November 1955, a considerable production for the Sofia studio. It bears the marks of what was then expected of an animated film: timid stylisation, insistent likeness, solemn tone. According to a study by the New Bulgarian University, it above all strengthened the professional confidence of the studio's animators; by the end of the decade, its author was turning to openly symbolic subjects.
Who it is for
Twenty-two minutes of animation about a hero of Bulgarian oral tradition; no French version has been located.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the first professional film of Bulgarian animation, the starting point of a school that trained Donyo Donev and Stoyan Doukov.
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