Nevena Kokanova

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.

  • Title: Nevena Kokanova
  • Popularity: 1.887
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1938-12-12
  • Place of Birth: Dupnitsa, Bulgaria
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  • Also Known As: Невена Богданова Коканова, Невена Коканова
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Nevena Kokanova Movies

  • 1968
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    Galileo

    Galileo

    6.3 1968 HD

    A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.

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  • 1961
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    Стръмната пътека

    Стръмната пътека

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1982
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    Crystals

    Crystals

    1 1982 HD

    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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  • 1964
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    The Peach Thief

    The Peach Thief

    6.8 1964 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    Before and After the Victory

    Before and After the Victory

    5.7 1967 HD

    A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of...

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  • 1984
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    Dangerous Charm

    Dangerous Charm

    8.9 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Detour

    Detour

    6.8 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Tobacco

    Tobacco

    4.6 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Evenings in Antim's Inn

    Evenings in Antim's Inn

    1 1988 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Matriarchy

    Matriarchy

    9 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Autumn Sun

    Autumn Sun

    1 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Cyclops

    Cyclops

    1 1976 HD

    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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  • 1977
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    Sunstroke

    Sunstroke

    8.5 1977 HD

    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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  • 1969
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    Tango

    Tango

    1 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    A Human Heart

    A Human Heart

    1 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    The Weddings of Ioan Assen

    The Weddings of Ioan Assen

    8.6 1975 HD

    The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through...

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  • 1969
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    Men on a Business Trip

    Men on a Business Trip

    8.5 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Canary Season

    Canary Season

    9.5 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    Ladies' Choice

    Ladies' Choice

    8.6 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Inspector and the Night

    The Inspector and the Night

    9 1963 HD

    A classic noir murder mystery based on the same name detective book by Bogomil Raynov

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  • 1972
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    The Boy Turns Man

    The Boy Turns Man

    7 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Rootless Tree

    Rootless Tree

    7 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Taste of Almonds

    Taste of Almonds

    1 1967 HD

    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....

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  • 1972
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    Love

    Love

    6 1972 HD

    Maria is having great difficulty getting on with her parents because of their blind, consumerist approach to life. Traumatized by continuous family...

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  • 1966
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    Karambol

    Karambol

    10 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    Be Happy, Ani!

    Be Happy, Ani!

    1 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Don't Go Away!

    Don't Go Away!

    8 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Little Tiger

    Little Tiger

    1 1973 HD

    The five-year-old kid Dimo must go to the kindergarten. He is not used to talking to the other kids and he has problems adjusting. His teacher gives...

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  • 1976
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    Memories of the Twin Sister

    Memories of the Twin Sister

    1 1976 HD

    A family evacuates to the Bulgarian countryside during World War II

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  • 1984
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    Salvation

    Salvation

    1 1984 HD

    Bulgarian prisoners of war escape from the Germans in the town of Ohrid.

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  • 1967
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    The Longest Night

    The Longest Night

    1 1967 HD

    The action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a fugitive - British captive - appears among the passengers....

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  • 1973
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    The Best Person I Know!

    The Best Person I Know!

    8.5 1973 HD

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  • 1981
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    Queen of Turnovo

    Queen of Turnovo

    1 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    This Fine Mature Age

    This Fine Mature Age

    1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    Forest People

    Forest People

    1 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Years for Love

    Years for Love

    7 1957 HD

    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,...

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  • 1983
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    Constantine The Philosopher

    Constantine The Philosopher

    1 1983 HD

    The story of St. Cyrilus (Constantine The Philosopher) in his quest of enlightening the Slavic people.

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  • 1972
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    Circles of Love

    Circles of Love

    1 1972 HD

    A story about three brothers, Petar, Angel and Vasil, each one joins the fight against fascism in his own way.

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  • 1968
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    Dangerous Flight

    Dangerous Flight

    1 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    A Strange Duel

    A Strange Duel

    1 1971 HD

    A Bulgarian spy movie

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  • 1980
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    The Three Deadly Sins

    The Three Deadly Sins

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Die Mahnung

    Die Mahnung

    5 1982 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    Botschafter morden nicht

    Botschafter morden nicht

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Last Bachelor

    The Last Bachelor

    8 1974 HD

    The middle-aged poor painter Tsokov doesn't believe in marriage, something completely unacceptable in a cramped socialist society.

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  • 1974
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    My Father, the Painter

    My Father, the Painter

    5.2 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    On a Quiet Evening

    On a Quiet Evening

    1 1960 HD

    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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  • 1980
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    The Three Deadly Sins

    The Three Deadly Sins

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1986
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    Home for Our Children

    Home for Our Children

    8 1986 HD

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