Nikolay Todorov

Directing

Nikolay Todorov

Place of birth

Sofia, Bulgaria

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Nikolay Todorov is a Bulgarian director, animator, and artist. Nikolay Todorov was born on February 18, 1952, in Sofia. In 1972, he graduated from the Art High School in Sofia. In 1978, he graduated in animation cinema from VGIK in Moscow, in the class of Ivan Petrovich Ivanov-Vano, who is considered the father of Russian animation. From 1979 to 1987, he worked at the Sofia Animation Film Studio as a director, production designer, animator, and screenwriter. Since 1987, he has worked in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Wiesbaden for ZDF (the second German television channel) as a director, animator, artist, and screenwriter. He has created over 90 animated films. He is the recipient of prestigious …

Known for

Grandomaniya poster
10.0

The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .

Grandomaniya

1979

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
10.0

This is a series of cartoons. It is united by the poetic texts of Stefan Tsanev, which are intended not only for children. Their irony is directed against selfishness and grandiosity. It is argued that the human dream has more power than vanity.

Story About the Three Ducklings

1983

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

No artwork available
7.0

Stadium. The athlete is preparing for the start. He runs down the long jump path. Tension lines his face. He lands, turns into an old man. A person's whole life is one long jump.

The Successful Try

1983

Odyssey poster
9.0

A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.

Odyssey

1978

Behind the camera

Grandomaniya poster
10.0

The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .

Grandomaniya

1979

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
10.0

This is a series of cartoons. It is united by the poetic texts of Stefan Tsanev, which are intended not only for children. Their irony is directed against selfishness and grandiosity. It is argued that the human dream has more power than vanity.

Story About the Three Ducklings

1983

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

No artwork available
7.0

Stadium. The athlete is preparing for the start. He runs down the long jump path. Tension lines his face. He lands, turns into an old man. A person's whole life is one long jump.

The Successful Try

1983

Odyssey poster
9.0

A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.

Odyssey

1978

Odyssey poster
9.0

A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.

Odyssey

1978