Nevena Kokanova

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Dec 12, 1938 (86 years old)
Death date
Jun 03, 2000

Nevena Kokanova

Known For

Canary Season
2h 8m
Movie 1993

Canary Season

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 finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?

Evenings in Antim's Inn
2h 1m
Movie 1988

Evenings in Antim's Inn

The lives and fates of the regular visitors of a village inn.

Home for Our Children
5h 6m
TV Show 1986

Home for Our Children

Forest People
1h 22m
Movie 1985

Forest People

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 hotel. A passionate love begins between the agent and the woman. She confessed to her lover about the murder. The killer managed to escape, and the woman was sent to prison.

This Fine Mature Age
1h 19m
Movie 1985

This Fine Mature Age

An older man of high social standing begins to understand that he's not as perfect as he believed.

Biography

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.

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