Hristo Ganev
- Writing
- August 2, 1924 · Pavel banya, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
- September 25, 2021
Biography
Hristo Ganev is a Bulgarian writer and film director. He was a member of the partisan unit "Chavdar" and took active participation in the antifascist resistance during WWII. He wrote the scripts for The Swimming Pool (1977), The Big Night Bathe (1980), and On the Roofs at Night (1988), directed by his wife Binka Zhelyazkova; as well as the scripts for a lot of short animated films. He directed a documentary on the Algerian independence titled Holiday for Hope(1963) and co-directed Life Quietly Moves On...(1957) with his wife.
Known for
Filmography
- A white shoulder for a black man · Writer
- All So Much Hogwash · Writer
- Love with Occasional Showers · Writer
- Zaches · Writer
- The Tenth Circle · Writer
- On the Roofs at Night · Writer
- The Merry Man · Writer
- The Big Night Bathe · Writer
- The Swimming Pool · Writer
- The Devil in the Church · Writer
- Jesse James vs. Lokum Shekerov
- A Celebration of Hope · Director, Writer
- We Were Young · Writer
- Life Flows Slowly By... · Director, Writer
- Two Victories · Writer
- Song of Man · Writer