Balgar ( bg, Българ, ) is a
Bulgarian satirical/
parody animated web series
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created by Nedelcho Bogdanov and set in the town of
Nessebar. A special guest actor in the first season was the Bulgarian radio and TV host
Niki Kanchev. The series was initially offered to a number of
Bulgarian TV stations, but its première eventually took place online.
The
pilot episode
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was created in 2008, with the last episode of the first season completed in January 2010. The second season began in October 2011, and the third started in January 2013. The first three seasons had more than five million views on the Internet.
In an interview from February 2014 Bogdanov said that his team had begun work on developing a feature film.
In November that year ''Balgar: The Movie'' was premiered as the first Bulgarian full-length animated
3D film
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.
The fourth season of the web series began in early 2015, immediately following the movie.
References
External links
Официален сайт на „Българ“
Bulgarian animated films
Bulgarian television series
Bulgarian web series
Bulgarian satirical films
Television shows adapted into films
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