Marran Gosov

Marran Gosov was born on Oct 03, 1933 in Bulgaria. Marran Gosov's big-screen debut came with Engelchen - oder die Jungfrau von Bamberg directed by Marran Gosov in 1968.

Marran Gosov was born 1933 as Tzvetan Marangosoff in Sofia to a German mother and a Bulgarian father. As a young man, he had studied to become a painter, but then, while in jail after a clash with socialist authorities, he wrote his first novel "The Indifferent". Partly because of the aforementioned political troubles, he emigrated to West Germany in April 1960. Shortly after settling down in Munich, he started writing radio plays and soon wrote and directed the first of 27 short films which he would make between 1964 and 1978, many of which he also photographed and edited. It is these short films which form his main body of work, and the five feature-length films he would go on to make between 1967 and 1972 could be seen as a kind of mainstream accompaniment to his shorts which typically reflected, humoured, bemoaned and dreamed about washed-up, eccentric or passionately lazy slacker characters, scroungers and smalltime criminals living, drinking and loving in Schwabing, at that time the Chelsea of Munich (but more bohème perhaps) and Gosov's new home by choice. In his heyday, Gosov was so well-reputed in Schwabing that even younger, aspiring filmmakers sought his advice and help, among them