site.btaExhibition in Berlin Commemorates Bulgarian-born Film Director Slatan Dudow

An exhibition presenting the oeuvre of Bulgarian-born German film director and screenwriter Slatan Dudow (1903-1963) opened at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute (BCI) in Berlin on February 8. Entitled "Slatan Dudow: A Bulgarian Classic Figure of German Film", it is dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth, the Bulgarian Institute of Culture told BTA. 

The event brought together cinema lovers, including a family from Dimitrovgrad in present-day Serbia, who have been instrumental in preserving the memory of the film director in his hometown. 

Dudow was born in Dimitrovgrad (then Caribrod).

The exhibition was opened by the head of the Bulgarian Institute of Culture in Berlin, Borislav Petranov, and the author of the exhibition concept and texts, Alexander Donev.

The exhibition can be visited until 8 March. 

Slatan Dudow (Zlatan Dudov) lived and worked in Germany, France and Switzerland. He worked with the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht at a theatre in Berlin. Dudow's 1931 film Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? was banned in 1933 after Hitler came to power. Until the end of World War II he passed his time in France and Switzerland, where he directed works for theatre and cinema and wrote stage plays and film scripts. In 1946 he co-founded the DEFA film studios in East Germany, where he made seven feature films.

The exhibition "Slatan Dudow: A Bulgarian Classic Figure of German Film" is a project of the Bulgarian Institute of Art Studies with the Academy of Sciences, together with the Archives State Agency and Sofia Film Fest, with the financial support of Sofia Municipality, The European Capital of Culture programme, and the Sofia - Creative City of the Cinema programme under the auspices of UNESCO.