Hacho Kirilov Boyadzhiev is a Bulgaria

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n television

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 and film director

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Boyadzhiev was born in Sofia

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Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 under the name Imre as the illegitimate son of car racer and bohemian

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 Dimitar Sokolov and 17-year-old Hungarian emigrant mother Piri, a milliner. However, his mothers' parents did not approve the two's relationship and he was adopted by the Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar, Bulgaria

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 merchant Kiril Boyadzhiev, whom he considers his real father, when he was six months old; the document was issued in Skopje

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. Until the death of his adoptive father, he didn't see his Hungarian mother by birth.

Boyadzhiev spent his childhood in Novi Pazar and then enrolled in the Saint Augustine

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 French

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 college in Plovdiv

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. During the Allied bombing

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s of the city in 1943, he returned to Novi Pazar. In 1951, he began studying mathematics

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 at Sofia University

Sofia University

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 but soon moved to the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts

Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts

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 to study directing.

After graduating and heading the Vidin

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 Theatre Boyadzhiev went to Beirut

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, Lebanon

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 after an invitation by a fellow student. In Lebanon, he suffered a severe car crash

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 due to a drugged

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 taxi

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 driver; of the six people in the car, only Boyadzhiev survived, although with a broken backbone

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. After his rehabilitation he worked as a make-up man for an Arabic

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 movie. At age 28–29, he moved to Paris

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, France by becoming a stoker on a Beirut–Marseille

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 steamship. In France he was a waiter in a bistro

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; it was at this time that he met filmmaker René Clair

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 and went on to work as his assistant for three years.

Boyadzhiev has also worked in New York City

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 in the United States

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; he has also been to Canada

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 (as a CBS

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 correspondent) and Hollywood and took his doctor's degree in cinema and television studies from the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. In 1963–1964, he started working with the Bulgarian National Television

Bulgarian National Television

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 as a news director: among the best-known television programmes he has directed are Flight Over the Night and Todor Kolev's How are we Going to Catch up with the Americans…?. From 1993 to 1995, he headed the Bulgarian National Television; in 1971–1979, he had been the television's head director. He has been married two times and has seven daughters, most from women he has not been married to. Three were born in Bulgaria and bear his family name, two were born in the United States, one in France and one in England

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Filmography

• Macbeth (1978)
• This Fine Age of Maturity (1985)
• The Man on the Road (1987)