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In 2017, the actress received the award for global contribution to the film industry of our country
After 56 years of film work and more than 40 films (including television) in 2017, Tatiana Lolova finally received the Golden Rose Award. But not for a specific role, but for “the global contribution to the film industry of our country.”
I say finally, because all these years film directors slightly turned their backs on Tanya Lolova and did not take full advantage of her great talent.
In front of the camera she can play it all, but she is the strongest in comedy roles. However, in Bulgaria comedies are written by men, with male characters and male directors.
Because of this, Tanya’s greatest rival and friend, Stoyanka Mutafova, has little participation in the cinema. Both great primates trapped in the theater. Tanya will go down in history as the first actress hired at the Satirical Theater. And Stoyanka, as the actress with the most experience on her stage.
Mutafova does not have a single award for a role in a movie, Lolova only has one: for her participation in a television movie. In 1992 she won the award for the female role of Angelina in the movie “Adventure” at the “Golden Chest” festival in Plovdiv.
In her memoirs “1/2 Life”, Lolova writes that she is a film artist because she is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers (SBFD). When asked if this was true, he said, “Well when someone asks me what movies I’ve been in and I can’t list many movies … this membership in SBFD is enough.”
One year this very SBFD conducted something like a survey on the wishes of artists. And Tanya Lolova modestly writes: “I want SBFD to make me the Bulgarian Lillian Gish …” I’ll just remind you that Gish was called the First Lady of American cinema.
And while Lillian Gish is filming with David W. Griffith himself, in Bulgaria Rangel Valchanov himself tells young Tanya Lolova that there is no possibility in the cinema, because he is … without eyebrows. Years ago, the actress admitted to me that it really offended her.
And Rangel not only tells him that there is no possibility in the cinema, but he also proves it in practice. One fine day in 1955, Rangel Valchanov, a young, beautiful and recently graduated director, also met the young, beautiful and recently graduated actress Tatiana Lolova: “Abe, we will make a movie, I want you to read the script. You choose what role you want … “
And what happens?
MONOLOGUE 1 by Lolova:
It was “Two Wins”, where he played an actor, but he was also second director. There were scenes where the main character is in a bathing suit and his body is like a fish. I guess with a good sense of humor, Rangel wanted to see how he would choose the main character with the fish body.
His malice was in vain, because he did not see me in a bathing suit, and I was then exactly with the body of a fish, a little bigger, but a fish. He just walked very badly dressed. That is why I think they reproach in vain those directors who make actresses undress in bathing suits when choosing the interpreters.
There was also a very small episodic role, where a very fat girl is made to sing alone, but first she has to sing the musical ladder and it sounds very fake.
I wasn’t as fat as Rangel looked at me, but I could sing fake because I have a good ear, and that’s absolutely necessary to play fake song. However, I went to Ruse, where the energy came from this director and friend, whom I will always love, at least because he made “The Varnished Shoes of the Unknown Warrior”, because in the Czech Republic they were a little kinder to me, because still I am a compatriot of Rangel Valchanov and for a thousand other things.
He is the director who said that I will never see a movie because I have no eyebrows. It wasn’t about the body of a fish, it wasn’t about singing, I just don’t have eyebrows and those who don’t have eyebrows don’t film them in Bulgarian cinema. This does not matter at all in world cinema, but since I was born in Bulgaria and one of my potential directors is called Rangel Valchanov, my chances are zero …
In 2007, I managed to reconcile Tanya and Rangel to some extent. Later, in an interview, the director told me: “It was just a joke. Otherwise, Tancheto and I are very good friends. I am deeply sorry that you did not act in my films. But it’s not my fault, or maybe it’s Bulgarian cinema that provided us with those plots. Otherwise, for me Tanya is one of our greatest actresses, from 100 kilometers it is obvious that it is a great thing. So tell her that I kiss her forehead and especially her eyebrows, which I love! … “
And after that kiss
We can start
with the beginning of the film career of the longest-legged Bulgarian actress. Tanya was 26 years old when Binka Zhelyazkova filmed her in her first movie, “And We Were Young.” The role is in miniature: Lolova is the girl with bubble gum who only has to go in front of the camera. The director is filming 18 (!) Doubles, and the newcomer is stunned by her requirements: “But now you’re complaining a lot. But you still have to have a little fun here. But you don’t have to go that far. But you still have to realize yourself … “
Some more episodic roles for Lolova follow. In “The Last Round” (1961) she is a wife, a wife in “Incredible Story” (1964). It is filmed in small roles by the supporter of grotesque cinema in our country Georgi Stoyanov. In The Painleve Case (1968) there is Cousin Mina, and in Birds and Greyhounds (1969) there is Mrs. Kavradkova, a member of the Animal Welfare Charitable Society. In “The Moby Dick Five” (1970) she is already a mother, appearing only in 2-3 frames.
In 1971, the entire socialist camp released the film “Goya, or the difficult path of knowledge”, co-produced by the GDR, the USSR, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The script was written by Angel Wagenstein, directed by Konrad Wolf, played by Goya. – Donatas Banionis, Tanya Lolova still has a cameo, but she herself is Queen Maria Luisa de Borbón, and I think Lolova’s stories about preparing and shooting this movie are more interesting than the movie itself.
They shot the test scenes at the Cinema Center and sent them to Leningrad for approval. Tanya says that a few days later a telegram arrived from there with the following text:
“We are looking for
monster but no
Just like that “
He added: “It did not offend me at all, but Angel was very angry, because it was a matter of prestige for him, since it is a proposal that comes from him …”
Wagenstein decided to take her to Leningrad to see her live. As a disciplined person, Lolova went to the Satirical Theater to ask the director Zhelcho Mandadjiev’s permission. He tells him that he must go to Leningrad for three days. Hear Velingrad and allow it. In the end, Lolova gets the role.
MONOLOGUE 2
– Then it happened that I was invited to the premiere in the GDR. She was wearing a beautiful Lada dress, long, the color of overripe watermelon. Angel had warned me: “Look, you’re going five by four, but try to be decent at the premiere.” We even went to West Berlin together for a few hours and with all my money I bought a beautiful pearl wig.
When they said: “In the role of the queen – Tatiana Lolova, Bulgaria – I came out with the dress, the wig, slim, young and beautiful. As there was some difference between that monster on the screen and this live actress, first there was a pause, in which little by little a “Aaaa” was heard and then a crazy applause, which I then gave completely to Bulgaria, which has so many wonderful actresses. And he was very proud … “
Finally, in 1973, a Bulgarian film was released, in which the name of Tanya Lolova was recorded as the performer of the main female role. This is “Poor Summer”, in which, however, Georgi Parcalev is present in almost all the paintings. Tanya said the film was shot by “a very kind, sober, beautiful and talented director: Milen Nikolov-Mecho.” And she thanks him for noticing her and inviting her to associate with great artists such as Parcalev, Ivan Kondov, Itsko Finci, Leda Taseva, Milen Penev …
After “Poor Summer”, the directors seem to start shooting it more often. In larger and smaller characters, but you’ve already mastered the magic of the episodic role – playing it to be remembered.
And she shows it in “The Last Bachelor” (1974), where she is a malicious mother-in-law to Todor Kolev, “Cricket in the Ear” (1976) – a new encounter with Georgi Stoyanov, who photographed her as the powerful midwife Bella.
You can’t help but remember her in the iconic comedy “Warm”, in which she is in charge of the district heating unit and demonstrates legs as if they were made on a very modern lathe and looking at them, you get the feeling that she is. it ends nowhere.
Tanya played the famous role in “Bon Chance, Inspector”, where she teamed up with Velko Kanev for the first time. Her name is Elza Karadushieva and she is the mother of Yosif Sarchadjiev.
MONOLOGUE 3
I wonder when they say I don’t like sexy roles. That if this is the question, the sexiest role in Bulgarian cinema belongs to me personally and, of course, to the wonderful actor Velko Kanev, his little finger. It’s about “Bon Chance, Inspector” by Petar Donev. The highly erotic scene took place during the soundtrack and entirely at my suggestion. I did a striptease behind the set, that is, my heroine took things off one by one, actually took off her jewelry and let out some additional sighs and words, which were purely my improvisation. The team went crazy with laughter and I was shaking all the time because their laughter entered the recording and spoiled the scene, which is not only erotic, but porn. “
The last film in which Lolova participated before 1989 was “The Thirteenth Bride of the Prince” (1987), a very funny comedy by Ivanka Grubcheva, shot in Sofia and in the German city of Karlmarktstadt. In this movie, Lolova has more problems with her on-screen husband, Pavel Poppandov, but behind the scenes. He is the royal magician, she is his wife, also a sorceress. “Not to mention a witch,” says Tanya.
According to her, then Poppandov had fallen into a period of mad wits. Even Georgi Mamalev sometimes sweats while reacting appropriately to Poppand’s geyser in jokes and jokes.
Once, while eating a sausage in her movie clothes in a beautiful castle, Lolova asks a five-year-old girl:
“Mom, is this a royal spell?” (Hexe – witch in German).
– Yes, really, answers the mother.
Lolova takes a feather out of her furry dress and presents it to the girl.
In the first years after 1989, Tanya, like many of her colleagues, starred in foreign productions that are made in our country. Such are “The Maternity’s Chatter” (1991) – France, the Russian “Bandit Tale” and “Makarov” (1993), “Don Quixote Returns” (1996) – Russian-Bulgarian production, “Murder Bureau” (1997) – co -production of France, Belgium and Canada.
Then things on the horizon become clearer. Bulgarian films began to be shot, some as co-productions, and time for new artistic interpretations of the actress. In “Conversation with the birds” (1997) she has the main role: she plays the grandmother of a town. In “After the End of the World” (1998), written by Angel Wagenstein, she is Jewish –
Baba Mazal, forced
tolerate drunks
cracks her husband Avram (Vasil Mihailov).
He also plays in “Journey to Jerusalem”, “Fly with Rosinant”, the infamous “Goodbye Mom”, “Bulgarian Rhapsody”. In “Barter” she is the blind Flora, and in “Lily the Fish” she is a witch.
Lolova is also filmed in various television series. In “Ganyo Balkanski returns from Europe” is Grebenarova, in “The Adventures of a Harlequin” is Murdjova, and in “The English Neighbor” is the grandmother Mara, the neighbor of English John.
Between 2011 and 2013, he starred in 86 series of “House Arrest”. She is the mother of Amy, a powerful mother-in-law who drives not only her son-in-law but her own daughter crazy.
Our death took her when she and Orlin Goranov were preparing to record a video for a song.
The song is called “Love”. Great title for the end of a rich life full of talent and love …
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