Zahari Zhandov

Directing

Zahari Zhandov

Born — Died

1911-10-01 — 1998-02-02

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Zahari Zhandov was a Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer. He was born on 1 June 1911 in the city of Rousse. At first he studied mathematics and then administrative sciences at Free University of Political and Economic Sciences, today UNWE in Sofia.

Known for

The Heroes of September poster
10.0

The film is dedicated to the uprising, which broke out in Bulgaria in September 1923. All characters, with the exception of the leaders of the uprising Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Kolarov, are symbolic characters. The central figures, Stefan and Peter, impersonate the motive forces behind the uprising - the workers and the peasants. They are involved in worker's strikes, in the stormy events of the First World War and the Soldier's uprising in 1918. They also participate in the bloody clashes of the September uprising and suffer its defeat after they have seen too late the need for concerted action by communists and agrarians.

The Heroes of September

1954

A Veiled World poster
NR

A documentary account of the lives of Muslim Bulgarians in the Rhodopes—their way of life, traditions, and customs. In it, Zhandov seeks not merely the exotic or the unfamiliar, but the human being and their world, viewed from within.

A Veiled World

1947

No artwork available
9.0

Мinko, a storekeeper in "The Black River" logging camp courts his assistant Sevda. He goes down to the town hoping to be with her on New Year's Eve. There he spots his wife Donka arriving from the village. Minko keeps out of sight and Donka sets out for the "The Black River". The lorry driver Dobri joins her. During the long and difficult journey over the snow-covered mountain, the two are attracted to each other.

The Black River

1964

No artwork available
10.0

Adaptation of the book by same title by Peter Stavinski, the film brings out the relations between children and birds in a new and unknown aspect, as a symbol of the purest and most direct expression of harmony.

Ptitsi Dolitat Do Nas

1971

Men Among Clouds poster
NR

Men Among Clouds by Zahari Zhandov takes us to Bulgaria’s high-altitude weather stations. The rugged, beautiful mountain landscape meets portraits of ordinary people dedicated to their profession.

Men Among Clouds

1946

Beyond the Horizon poster
5.5

Partisans hijack a boat

Beyond the Horizon

1960

Behind the camera

The Heroes of September poster
10.0

The film is dedicated to the uprising, which broke out in Bulgaria in September 1923. All characters, with the exception of the leaders of the uprising Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Kolarov, are symbolic characters. The central figures, Stefan and Peter, impersonate the motive forces behind the uprising - the workers and the peasants. They are involved in worker's strikes, in the stormy events of the First World War and the Soldier's uprising in 1918. They also participate in the bloody clashes of the September uprising and suffer its defeat after they have seen too late the need for concerted action by communists and agrarians.

The Heroes of September

1954

A Veiled World poster
NR

A documentary account of the lives of Muslim Bulgarians in the Rhodopes—their way of life, traditions, and customs. In it, Zhandov seeks not merely the exotic or the unfamiliar, but the human being and their world, viewed from within.

A Veiled World

1947

A Veiled World poster
NR

A documentary account of the lives of Muslim Bulgarians in the Rhodopes—their way of life, traditions, and customs. In it, Zhandov seeks not merely the exotic or the unfamiliar, but the human being and their world, viewed from within.

A Veiled World

1947

No artwork available
9.0

Мinko, a storekeeper in "The Black River" logging camp courts his assistant Sevda. He goes down to the town hoping to be with her on New Year's Eve. There he spots his wife Donka arriving from the village. Minko keeps out of sight and Donka sets out for the "The Black River". The lorry driver Dobri joins her. During the long and difficult journey over the snow-covered mountain, the two are attracted to each other.

The Black River

1964

No artwork available
10.0

Adaptation of the book by same title by Peter Stavinski, the film brings out the relations between children and birds in a new and unknown aspect, as a symbol of the purest and most direct expression of harmony.

Ptitsi Dolitat Do Nas

1971

No artwork available
10.0

Adaptation of the book by same title by Peter Stavinski, the film brings out the relations between children and birds in a new and unknown aspect, as a symbol of the purest and most direct expression of harmony.

Ptitsi Dolitat Do Nas

1971

Men Among Clouds poster
NR

Men Among Clouds by Zahari Zhandov takes us to Bulgaria’s high-altitude weather stations. The rugged, beautiful mountain landscape meets portraits of ordinary people dedicated to their profession.

Men Among Clouds

1946

Men Among Clouds poster
NR

Men Among Clouds by Zahari Zhandov takes us to Bulgaria’s high-altitude weather stations. The rugged, beautiful mountain landscape meets portraits of ordinary people dedicated to their profession.

Men Among Clouds

1946

Beyond the Horizon poster
5.5

Partisans hijack a boat

Beyond the Horizon

1960

PEOPLE AMONG THE CLOUDS poster
NR

Bulgarian high-mountain meteorological stations and observatories. Raw and beautiful nature, ordinary people devoted to their profession, impressive observations, popular scientific information.

PEOPLE AMONG THE CLOUDS

1947

PEOPLE AMONG THE CLOUDS poster
NR

Bulgarian high-mountain meteorological stations and observatories. Raw and beautiful nature, ordinary people devoted to their profession, impressive observations, popular scientific information.

PEOPLE AMONG THE CLOUDS

1947

Earth poster
7.5

A Bulgarian village before the First World War. The young and ambitious farmer Enyo loves the beautiful but poor Tsveta. His brother and his wife arrange their engagement. The hunchback girl Stanka, daughter of the richest man in the village, is in love with Enyo. Because of her father's lands Enyo decides to end his engagement with Tsveta and starts building up his farm.

Earth

1957

Shibil poster
9.0

A bandit chief falls in love with a wealthy man's daughter.

Shibil

1968

Shibil poster
9.0

A bandit chief falls in love with a wealthy man's daughter.

Shibil

1968

The Boyana Master poster
7.2

This is a film about the moral and philosophical sides of the life and the art, about the complex relations between the artist and the rough rules of the time in which he lives.

The Boyana Master

1981

The Boyana Master poster
7.2

This is a film about the moral and philosophical sides of the life and the art, about the complex relations between the artist and the rough rules of the time in which he lives.

The Boyana Master

1981

Alarm poster
7.5

The action takes place in the last years of the Second World War, immediately before the socialist revolution in Bulgaria. It centers on the life of the middle-class family of Lazarov, which is torn by the sharp political contradictions taking place against the background of the popular struggle against fascism. The father Vitan goes through terrible mental traumas, which are the price, he has to pay for his illusions that in such clashes one can remain neutral and free from politics. The partisans execute the son Boris - a fascist officer, a sadist and a murderer. The daughter Lily is forced to search for her place in the conflict between the representatives of two hostile worlds - that of fascist brother and her husband - a communist and a revolutionary.

Alarm

1951