Petar B. Vasilev | |
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Born | Kriva Bara village, Bulgaria | 26 June 1918
Died | 30 July 2001 | (aged 83)
Other names | Milevin |
Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
Years active | 1954 – 1990 |
Petar B. Vasilev nicknamed Milevin (Bulgarian: Петър Б. Василев-Милевин) (1918–2001), was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
He was among the prominent Bulgarian film directors from the last decades of the 20th century best known for his satirical comedies. Most of them obtained a broad popularity and became a classic works of the Bulgarian cinematography, most notably Jack of All Trades (1962), Whale (1970), Farsighted for Two Diopters (1976), Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor (1985) and especially the sequence about The Past-Master (1970–1983).