DIRECTOR
 

CHRISTO BAKALSKI
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Producer and Director
born 28.9.1953 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Education: Studied German Literature in Leipzig, graduated in 1978
Employment: before 1989, various film productions as managing director and executive producer and work as a free-lance interpreter, photographer and Berlinale Film Festival host;
1990 founded own company Film Contact Berlin;
1998 appointed as Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin;
2002 return to business with the Film Contact Berlin production company;
   
married, father of three children

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Short Filmography
1990 BERLIN DREAMS; Betacam SP, 54 min, documentary, director and producer;
1992 VOLLENDEN UND AUFBRECHEN; Betacam SP, 15 min, documentary, director and producer;
1993 DIE ZITADELLE; 35mm, 28 min, documentary, co-producer;
1993 MURDERSTORIES; 35 mm, 43 min; documentary, co-producer;
1994 88 ODER 00; Betacam SP, 28 min, documentary, director and producer;
1995 THE ROAD TO EUROPE; 16 mm, 52 min, documentary, co-producer;
1996 THUNDERING STONES; 35 mm, 116 min, feature film, co-producer;
1998 TUVALU; 35mm, 120 min, Veit Helmer Filmproduktion, coordination Bulgaria;
2002 UNSER AUSLAND 10 Experten aus 10 Landern - und was ihnen hierzulande auffallt; Video exhibition by Dorothee Wenner, 120 min, as one of the experts;
2007 BULGARIA OF ALL PLACES; 35mm, 94 min, documentary, director and producer.