Petar B. Vasilev

Petar B. Vasilev
Petar B. Vasilev in the 1970s.
Born	(1918-06-26)26 June 1918 Kriva Bara village, Bulgaria
Died	30 July 2001(2001-07-30) (aged 83) Sofia, Bulgaria
Other names	Milevin
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1954 – 1990

Petar B. Vasilev nicknamed Milevin (Bulgarian: Петър Б. Василев-Милевин) (1918–2001), was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.

He was among the prominent Bulgarian film directors from the last decades of the 20th century best known for his satirical comedies. Most of them obtained a broad popularity and became a classic works of the Bulgarian cinematography, most notably Jack of All Trades (1962), Whale (1970), Farsighted for Two Diopters (1976), Maneuvers on the Fifth Floor (1985) and especially the sequence about The Past-Master (1970–1983).