Background
Dinov was born to a Bulgarian family in Dedeagach in Western Thrace (today Alexandroupoli, Greece) and finished school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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Dinov was born to a Bulgarian family in Dedeagach in Western Thrace (today Alexandroupoli, Greece) and finished school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow under the tutelage of distinguished Soviet animators such as Ivan Ivanov-Vano.
During his lifetime he wrote and directed more than 40 short animated films and several live-action feature films, and was also a popular illustrator, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist. Dinov created his own first animated film, Yunak Marko (English: Marko the Hero), in 1955. Perhaps his best-known animated film in the West is the five-minute short Margaritka (English: The Daisy), produced in 1965.
The film features a square-shaped little man trying to cut down a daisy and failing, then becoming more and more enraged as he tries increasingly brutal methods against the flower.
In the end, the daisy only responds to the love of a child. He founded the first animation studio in Bulgaria, setting the highest quality professional standards for producing animation in his country.
Later, he created the Animation Department (now a separate major) and taught animation classes at the Theatre and Film Arts Institute. He died in Sofia at the age of 84.
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In 1967 he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. Dinov was also a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.