Mormarevi Brothers

Their filmed screenplays also featured some of the most eminent Bulgarian comic actors of this period, including Dimitar Panov in Porcupines Are Born Without Spines (1971) and Georgi Partsalev in With Children at the Seaside (1972) and Farsighted for Two Diopters (1976).

They created a unique style and enduringly popular body of work during one of the most productive eras in Bulgarian cinematography.

Yomtov held high posts in the Federation of European Biochemical Societies for years, finally reaching the position of secretary-general.

Mormarevi Brothers started their collaboration writing feuilletons for Starshel (Hornet) newspaper, a Bulgarian weekly paper of humour and satire.

Their work method was to sit down at a table in Yomtov's small kitchen and figure out subjects and characters while playing cards.

[2] This first film was followed by a five-year break, caused, at least in part, by Stoychev's dismissal from Bulgarian National Radio after an incident involving the unauthorized radio broadcast, not long after the 1968 Prague Spring, of a satirical poem by the eminent Bulgarian poet Valery Petrov.

They found it in the child's point of view on the world, but their writing was spiced with a lot of humour that could also be appreciated by adults, and even with some satire.

The same can be said for Vasko de Gama from Rupcha Village, another extremely successful film based on a Mormarevi screenplay, released as TV miniseries in 1986.

[2] With their Childhood series, the Mormarevi Brothers created a memorable chapter in the Bulgarian cinematography during its golden age of the 1970s and 1980s.

Indian Summer has a good deal in common with the films in the Childhood series, as both examine groups of similarly aged males from the inside out.

On the other hand, in the 1976 film Farsighted for Two Diopters, a family comedy, the focus of the story is the clash between generations.

This film bears some similarity to the Soviet Union comedy Stariki-razboyniki (1971), with Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as pensioners.

[2] It is known that the main character in Farsighted for Two Diopters, Dimo Manchev, was specially written and designed for Georgi Partsalev.

Quotations and dialogue from the film entered Bulgarian popular culture and daily conversation of that era.

Dimitar Panov (left) and Georgi Partsalev in Farsighted for Two Diopters (1976)