Anri Kulev

Directing

Anri Kulev

Born 1949-07-21 · Shumen, Bulgaria

Anri Kulev is a Bulgarian film director, writer and animator.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

I Dream Of Music poster
NR

A documentary about the life and music of the great Bulgarian folk-jazz clarinet player Ivo Papasov - Ibryama.

I Dream Of Music

1983

Zaches poster
NR

The film is a romantic comedy, inspired by the fairy-tale atmosphere of the Hofmann fantasies.

Zaches

2010

Zaches poster
NR

The film is a romantic comedy, inspired by the fairy-tale atmosphere of the Hofmann fantasies.

Zaches

2010

Once There Was a War poster
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Is a war big or small for someone who has lost his life in it? It's a film-trip or, as it's called today, a road movie. The road to the war is a greater ordeal than a battle… In an unprecedented march the forty-thousand strong Bulgarian Army, crossing from the southern to the western frontier of the country, covers the distance in less than two days and two nights with no roads, railway or other means of transport available… and wins the war. But this seemingly chaotic whirl of events will clearly follow the path of a young woman from the grave of her child to the death of her husband. And there will be the Cripple – a boy with his romantic urge to die for his Fatherland dying in the most important battle in life – for human dignity. There are also the bodies of two men clinging to each other in Death’s grip among the reeds in the mud. The war has made them enemies but they are more like bleeding Atlas Telamons with a peaceful sky steady on their shoulders.

Once There Was a War

2019

The Way Monkeys Descended from Man poster
7.0

A poor African tribe gradually turned into monkeys. In order to become human again, they had to find the person who would lead them to the spirit, to the dream, to climb to the top of the tree of life.

The Way Monkeys Descended from Man

1987

Musketeer's Honor poster
NR

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan remember their youth and adventures, long battles and amorous adventures, they feel sorry for their Captain de Treville and do not lose sight of their eternal enemy - the Cardinal.

Musketeer's Honor

1994

Story About the Road poster
8.0

On the country road, he gets tired of being trampled by horses and carts and sets off to see where the world is going. After encounters with intercity roads, the main road, and the highway, it finally reaches the end each time— where the road begins. Then a small path appears, along which the man walks up— Charlie Chaplin's little tramp.

Story About the Road

1985

The Merry Man poster
7.0

Everything is sunny, everything is colorful, but the most colorful is the flag of Veselyaka, with which he happily goes against the current, storms, and crowds. However, fate prepares trials for him, and each of them tears a piece of cloth from the waving flag, until in the end only the handle of the flag remains. Carrying this stick, the Jolly One joins the crowd. There are thousands like him, ferocious people with sticks.

The Merry Man

1987

Who Sees Farther? poster
7.0

The eagle, the sun, the mole, the owl and the fish argue over who sees farther. Each of them passionately claims that his gaze is the most important and sings the song "Further Away" aloud. While the answer lies elsewhere.

Who Sees Farther?

1983

To Put It Mildly poster
NR

Little Svetlio has taken the six plastic Indians in his crib and is struggling to sleep. Suddenly, a big Dog appears in the room and explains to Svetlio his mission - he has come to save him. Firstly, because he is a St. Bernard by nature. Svetlio goes on an adventure because of a simple lie.

To Put It Mildly

2022

No artwork available
9.0

A child has soiled his official clothes for his birthday. They beat him. The child in his imagination runs away from Mom and Dad— to the reindeer of the North Pole, to the ostriches in Africa. The smell of the delicious chicken that Mom cooked brings him back.

Day Like a Dandelion

1981

No artwork available
NR

Philosophical reflection on spiritual values, self-sacrifice and woman. The film represents a philosophical parable of Greek mythology and Christianity.

The Gorgon

1994

The Book of Silence poster
NR

A film about the value of words in an age of information abundance; about the troubled communication and imbalance between silence, talking and sounds, but also about how human speech shaped and developed and what should be done to reconcile with silence, turning it into Word.

The Book of Silence

2014

Bachelor's Room poster
8.0

Studio (in French: garçonnière - a place for a bachelor without partition walls). And in the horror of tomorrow's apocalypse and in the exhaustion of yesterday's love even in the fleeting moment of bliss beware of the like The man is a crowd.

Bachelor's Room

1979

Lilly and the Magic Pearl poster
10.0

One submarine fairy-tale, in which the matter is about surface things. Friendship, parting, hope... Words, which we have slightly forgotten in our days, but they are important – and this is why we would like to recollect them again. Little Lilly listens from the telephone box on the beach a fairy-tale, which leads her to the seabed. There she meets an ugly monster – the fish Hrilly – and together they start looking for the magic pearl, which: “Shines in the sea of the children’s games a pearl, which

Lilly and the Magic Pearl

2015

The Tenth Circle poster
8.0

For the hero of this grotesque, The Man, the nine circles of Hell are nothing more than a fun fair pavilion, a Sunday stroll in Disneyland, a trip on the roller coaster, and a ride on the Ferris wheel. There are nine circles in Hell, but life is the Ten Circle. Sartre says, "Hell - these are the others!" And maybe, we are all Hell... Jokingly, of course.

The Tenth Circle

1998

All So Much Hogwash poster
NR

Hristo Ganev's script is about the senseless war, the love that gives birth to the child of the wounded soldier and the nurse at the front...

All So Much Hogwash

2017

A white shoulder for a black man poster
NR

A film about the tornado of feelings that rages in the head of a white man, the guide of a blind black musician. The genius, immersed in darkness, gets acquainted with the world of others through the shoulder of his guide. The characters become entangled in a complex psychological relationship and emotional clash.

A white shoulder for a black man

2024