Balgar (, ) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

n satirical/

parody A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satire, satirical or irony, ironic imitation. Often its subject is an Originality, original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, e ...

animated Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby image, still images are manipulated to create Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on cel, transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and e ...

web series A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1 ...

created by Nedelcho Bogdanov and set in the town of

Nessebar Nesebar (often transcribed as Nessebar and sometimes as Nesebur, , pronounced ) is an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous ...

. A special guest actor in the first season was the Bulgarian radio and TV host

Niki Kanchev Nikolay "Niki" Kanchev () (born 26 December 1960) is a Bulgarian television presenter, famous for hosting the Bulgarian language, Bulgarian version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (re-titled to ''Стани богат'' (''Become Rich''), si ...

. The series was initially offered to a number of Bulgarian TV stations, but its première eventually took place online. The

pilot episode A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television netwo ...

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 3D films are motion pictures made to give an illusion of three-dimensional solidity, usually with the help of special glasses worn by viewers. 3D films were prominently featured in the 1950s in American cinema and later experienced a worldwide r ...

. The fourth season of the web series began in early 2015, immediately following the movie.

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External links

Официален сайт на „Българ“
Bulgarian television series Bulgarian web series Television shows adapted into films {{animation-tv-prog-stub