Balgar ( bg, Българ, ) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

n satirical/

parody A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its sub ...

animated web series created by Nedelcho Bogdanov and set in the town of

Nessebar Nesebar (often transcribed as Nessebar and sometimes as Nesebur, bg, Несебър, 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 centr ...

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

Niki Kanchev Nikolay "Niki" Kanchev ( bg, Николай Кънчев, or Ники Кънчев) (born 26 December 1960) is a Bulgarian television presenter, famous for hosting the Bulgarian version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (re-titled to ''Ст� ...

. The series was initially offered to a number of Bulgarian TV stations, but its première eventually took place online. The pilot episode 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. The fourth season of the web series began in early 2015, immediately following the movie.

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Официален сайт на „Българ“
Bulgarian animated films Bulgarian television series Bulgarian web series Bulgarian satirical films Television shows adapted into films {{Bulgaria-film-stub