Nevena Kokanova
Birthday: 1938-12-12
Place of Birth: Dupnitsa, Bulgaria
Biography: Nevena Kokanova (Bulgarian: Невена Коканова) (12 December 1938 – 3 June 2000) was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner. Kokanova was born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria and is most renowned for her role as Lisa in The Peach Thief. She started her career at 18 as an apprentice actor with the Yambol Theater in Yambol, Bulgaria. In 1975 she was a member of the jury at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1980 she starred in and co-directed Three Deadly Sins with Lyubomir Sharlandzhiev. She died in Sofia.
Movies
Galileo
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the un...
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The Steep Path
Nine volunteers begin digging a tunnel through rugged mountain terrain. The group includes three min...
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Crystals
Natural minerals are found all over the world. They represent the wealth of the country they come fr...
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The Peach Thief
The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World ...
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Before and After the Victory
A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with...
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Dangerous Charm
He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillf...
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Detour
When a road construction detour forces former lovers Boyan and Neda to cross paths after seventeen y...
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Tobacco
Boris Morev dreams of money and power, he’ll do everything to reach the top, including leaving his b...
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Matriarchy
The film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a group ...
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Autumn Sun
Bulgaria, 1930s, small provincial town. Vyara Zadgorska returned to her hometown as a doctor after s...
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Cyclops
The main character is a commander of a nuclear powered submarine. Once a very promising hydroacousti...
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Sunstroke
Near a large Bulgarian city begins the construction of a large factory. There is a fertile land in c...
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Tango
The upper class of the capital has been invited to a party. The guests discuss the retreat of the Ge...
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A Human Heart
The young partisan Nestor makes attempt to escape from prison, but is shot in the chest. After a few...
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian ...
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Men on a Business Trip
Three separate novels are dealing with the never-ending problem of men's infidelity. How should wome...
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Canary Season
It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulti...
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Ladies' Choice
A couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations,...
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The Boy Turns Man
The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a fe...
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The Inspector and the Night
Marinov is found dead, and suspects include Baev, Dimov, and Zhana. The Inspector, who deals with li...
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Rootless Tree
Having remained alone in his village house, old Gatyo must move in with his son and daughter-in-law ...
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Taste of Almonds
A hairdresser Gerda has an affair with Dr Nikodimov, a married man past his prime. Savarinova has ha...
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Love
Maria is having great difficulty getting on with her parents because of their blind, consumerist app...
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Karambol
In a large provincial town, two friends Nasko and Raycho meet Emil, a conductor in the opera, who in...
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Be Happy, Ani!
Ani, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend Boyan,...
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Don't Go Away!
The charming young man Ran is a director in a school in his hometown. His classmate Mariana is his w...
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Little Tiger
The five-year-old kid Dimo must go to the kindergarten. He is not used to talking to the other kids ...
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The Longest Night
The action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a fugitive -...
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Memories of the Twin Sister
A family evacuates to the Bulgarian countryside during World War II...
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The Best Person I Know!
A young literature teacher joins an evening technical school where her students - miners, metallurgi...
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Queen of Turnovo
The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town, Turnov...
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This Fine Mature Age
An older man of high social standing begins to understand that he's not as perfect as he believed....
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Forest People
1929. The owners of a roadside hotel-a man and a woman-kill the merchant. To solve the murder, the i...
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Years for Love
Dr Ganevski leaves his wife Maria and his grown-up children Rositza and Chavdar for Dr Troyanovska, ...
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Constantine The Philosopher
The story of St. Cyrilus (Constantine The Philosopher) in his quest of enlightening the Slavic peopl...
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Circles of Love
A story about three brothers, Petar, Angel and Vasil, each one joins the fight against fascism in hi...
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Dangerous Flight
Professor Dimov is a diplomat who has been recruited as a spy by a foreign intelligence service. The...
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A Strange Duel
In a bustling European city, Bulgarian agent Pavlov, under suspicion of double-dealing in a Western ...
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The Three Deadly Sins
Pavel Pashev receives a package with three shrunk up apples - three vampire apples. According to the...
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The Warning
The action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the great Bu...
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Botschafter morden nicht
Crime thriller about a private detective who becomes involved in intrigues surrounding a missing wom...
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The Last Bachelor
The middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely unacceptable i...
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My Father, the Painter
A former history teacher, currently a house painter is broke before the New Year. Faith meets him wi...
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On a Quiet Evening
Chased by the military police force, the partisans Boyka and Anton take refuge in a cave. A grenade ...
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Yazovetzat
A beautiful middle-aged French woman comes to Bulgaria for a vacation. In a village by the sea, she ...
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