Ducho Mundrov(1920-2012)

Ducho Mundrov has graduated in cinema directing in Moscow (VGIK), Soviet Union (now - Russia). In 1952, being a student in Moscow, Mundrov collaborated with Nikola Korabov to make a documentary on the poet Nikola Vaptzarov. Upon his return home, Mundrov, once again with Korabov, filmed a classical social-realist story, "People of Dimitrovgrad" (1956) and followed that in 1957 with an independent film "The Commander of the Detachment" (1959), a tale of the partisan. The best film made from one of Emil Manov's scripts was "Captive Flock" (1962), which was also the best film of Ducho Mundrov. In "Captive Flock", Mundrov relinquished the schematic line and the conventional forms he had employed at the start of his career and rather than concentrating his attention on the plot, snowed more concern for the psychological atmosphere of a cell where a group of political prisoners was spending the last days before their execution. Ducho Mundrov (as Doutcho Mundrov) has a nomination for Golden Palm at 1962 Cannes Film Festival for the film "Captive Flock" (1962). He has worked as director in Boyana Film Studio, Sofia since 1954 to 1988. He is known also for "The End of the Summer "(1967). He was one of the initiators of the establishing of the "Club for Support of Publicity and Reconstruction in Bulgaria" in 1988, which was one of the first opposition societies against the communist regime in Bulgaria.