site.btaBerlin Exhibition to Commemorate Bulgarian-born German Film Director Slatan Dudow

Bulgarian-born German film director and screenwriter Slatan Dudow (1903-1963) will be commemorated with an exhibition at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin (BCIB). The exhibition, dubbed Slatan Dudow: A Bulgarian Classic Figure of German Film, will be staged between February 8 and March 8 to mark Dudow's 120th birth anniversary. The concept and the texts for the exhibition were written by film critic Alexander Donev, BCIB said.

Slatan Dudow (Zlatan Dudov) lived and worked in Germany, France and Switzerland. He worked with the great German dramatist 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 upcoming exhibition is a project of the Institute of Art Studies with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. It is being implemented in collaboration with the Archives State Agency and the Sofia International Film Festival with the financial support of Sofia Municipality and the Sofia Culture Programme.