Nevena Kokanova
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.171 |
| Birthday | 1938-12-12 |
| Place of Birth | Dupnitsa, Bulgaria |
| Also Known As | Невена Богданова Коканова, Невена Коканова, |
1964
The Peach Thief
6.8/20
The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.
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The Peach Thief
1967
Before and After the Victory
5.7/3
A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of th...
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Before and After the Victory
1984
Dangerous Charm
8.9/13
He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating mercha...
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Dangerous Charm
1977
Matriarchy
9/1
The film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a group of women who have been left alone in their 'female...
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Matriarchy
1962
Tobacco
3.7/5
Boris Morev dreams of money and power, he’ll do everything to reach the top, including leaving his beloved Irina, to marry the daughter of the local t...
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Tobacco
1975
The Weddings of Ioan Assen
8.6/10
The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through seve...
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
1969
Men on a Business Trip
8.5/2
Three separate novels are dealing with the never-ending problem of men's infidelity. How should women behave when men take a fancy to them? The pictur...
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Men on a Business Trip
1993
Canary Season
9.5/2
It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he fin...
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Canary Season
1980
Ladies' Choice
8.6/7
A couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations, caused between the driving-teacher and the beginn...
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Ladies' Choice
1972
The Boy Turns Man
7/5
The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to ma...
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The Boy Turns Man
1963
The Inspector and the Night
9/1
A classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov
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The Inspector and the Night
1974
Rootless Tree
7/1
Having remained alone in his village house, old Gatyo must move in with his son and daughter-in-law in their flat in the city. They receive him with g...
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Rootless Tree
1967
Detour
6.8/5
On the road one day two people meet again after seventeen years. They'd had a brief, burning affair seventeen years earlier, in their idealistic youth...
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Detour
1967
Taste of Almonds
0/0
A hairdresser Gerda has an affair with Dr Nikodimov, a married man past his prime. Savarinova has had her hair done by Gerda in fashionable style. She...
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Taste of Almonds
1972
Love
6/4
Maria is having great difficulty getting on with her parents because of their blind, consumerist approach to life. Traumatized by continuous family dr...
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Love
1963
Be Happy, Ani!
0/0
Ani, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend Boyan, a worker at a large construction site. The letter...
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Be Happy, Ani!
1966
Karambol
0/0
In a large provincial town, two friends Nasko and Raycho meet Emil, a conductor in the opera, who introduces them to Ana, an opera singer. Nasko and A...
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Karambol
1976
Don't Go Away!
8/1
The charming young man Ran is a director in a school in his hometown. His classmate Mariana is his wife. At the first glance, things are like, as they...
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Don't Go Away!
1976
Memories of the Twin Sister
0/0
A family evacuates to the Bulgarian countryside during World War II
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Memories of the Twin Sister
1967
The Longest Night
0/0
The action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a fugitive - British captive - appears among the passengers. T...
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The Longest Night
1973
Little Tiger
0/0
The story of a little boy.
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Little Tiger
1973
The Best Person I Know!
8.5/2
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The Best Person I Know!
1984
Salvation
0/0
Bulgarian prisoners of war escape from the Germans in the town of Ohrid.
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Salvation
1981
Queen of Turnovo
0/0
The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town, Turnovo. A rich young doctor suffers because of his love...
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Queen of Turnovo
1985
Forest People
0/0
1929. The owners of a roadside hotel-a man and a woman-kill the merchant. To solve the murder, the investigator sends his undercover agent to the hote...
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Forest People
1985
This Fine Mature Age
0/0
An older man of high social standing begins to understand that he's not as perfect as he believed.
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This Fine Mature Age
1983
Constantine The Philosopher
0/0
The story of St. Cyrilus (Constantine The Philosopher) in his quest of enlightening the Slavic people.
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Constantine The Philosopher
1972
Circles of Love
0/0
A story about three brothers, Petar, Angel and Vasil, each one joins the fight against fascism in his own way.
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Circles of Love
1971
A Strange Duel
0/0
A Bulgarian spy movie
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A Strange Duel
1957
Years for Love
0/0
Dr Ganevski leaves his wife Maria and his grown-up children Rositza and Chavdar for Dr Troyanovska, who has been widowed by the war. Her son, Angel, a...
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Years for Love
1968
Dangerous Flight
0/0
Professor Dimov is a diplomat who has been recruited as a spy by a foreign intelligence service. The suspicions fall on Dr. Belcheva. Major Kalinov is...
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Dangerous Flight
1980
The Three Deadly Sins
0/0
Pavel Pashev receives a package with three shrunk up apples - three vampire apples. According to the legend, he is doomed. Who sent the apple? For yea...
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The Three Deadly Sins
1982
Die Mahnung
5/1
The action takes place in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna in years 1932 and 1933, a time when the great Bulgarian revolutionary and internationalist Georgi...
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Die Mahnung
1970
Botschafter morden nicht
0/0
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Botschafter morden nicht
1974
My Father, the Painter
5.2/2
A former history teacher, currently a house painter is broke before the New Year. Faith meets him with the rich man, who wants his living room to be p...
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My Father, the Painter
1974
The Last Bachelor
8/1
The middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely unacceptable in a cramped socialist society.
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The Last Bachelor
1960
On a Quiet Evening
0/0
Chased by the military police force, the partisans Boyka and Anton take refuge in a cave. A grenade explosion dislodges the rock, which seals off the...
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On a Quiet Evening
1961
Стръмната пътека
0/0
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Стръмната пътека
1988
Evenings in Antim's Inn
0/0
The lives and fates of the regular visitors of a village inn.
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Evenings in Antim's Inn
1982
Autumn Sun
0/0
Bulgaria, 1930s, small provincial town. Vyara Zadgorska returned to her hometown as a doctor after six years of study in France. Along the way she mee...
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Autumn Sun
1976
Cyclops
0/0
The main character is a commander of a nuclear powered submarine. Once a very promising hydroacoustics expert, he sacrificed his scientific career to...
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Cyclops
1977
Sunstroke
8.5/1
Near a large Bulgarian city begins the construction of a large factory. There is a fertile land in close by. Prof. Dimov, Director of the Environment...
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Sunstroke
1969
Tango
0/0
The upper class of the capital has been invited to a party. The guests discuss the retreat of the Germans on the Eastern Front. Havadzhieva, an attrac...
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Tango
1972
A Human Heart
0/0
The young partisan Nestor makes attempt to escape from prison, but is shot in the chest. After a few tense hours, the surgeon professor Andronikov rem...
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A Human Heart
1968
Galileo
6.26/25
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
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Galileo
1982
Crystals
0/0
Natural minerals are found all over the world. They represent the wealth of the country they come from. This film conveys the beauty of minerals.
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