Emil Loteanu

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Emil Loteanu
Clocuşna, Kingdom of Romania
Died18 March 2003(2003-03-18) (aged 66)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
Citizenship Romania
 Russia
 Moldova
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter, poet
Years active1959–1997
Notable workGypsies Are Found Near Heaven (1975)
Spouse
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(m. 1979; div. 1984)​
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Emil Loteanu (6 November 1936 – 18 April 2003) was a Moldovan and Soviet film director born in what is now Moldova. He moved to Moscow in his early life. His best known films are Lăutarii, Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven, A Hunting Accident and Anna Pavlova.[1]

Life and career

2004 Moldovan stamp
2004 Moldovan stamp
1995 Moldovan stamp
1995 Moldovan stamp

Emil Vladimirovich Loteanu was born on 6 November 1936 in the

Clocuşna (now Ocniţa District, Moldova); at the time, the area was part of Greater Romania
. The Loteanu ancestry has Ukrainian origin, the original name was Lototskii.

His paternal ancestors were from

VGIK (workshop of Grigori Roshal
and Y. Genik).

Between 1952 and 1954, he worked as an actor at the

Eugene Doga and was the beginning for their long collaboration. The film won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[2]

Since 1973, Loteanu worked at the studio Mosfilm. Film adaptations of Maxim Gorky's Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven and Anton Chekhov's A Hunting Accident, and the biographical film Anna Pavlova, dedicated to the life of the great Russian ballerina, brought him great popularity. In 1976, the film Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven won the Grand Prix – the "Golden Shell" – at the International Film Festival in San Sebastian.[3] A waltz by Eugene Doga from the 1978 film A Hunting Accident became world-famous.

One of the producers of his 1983 film Anna Pavlova was Michael Powell. The film was a co-production between Britain and the Soviet Union and featured American director Martin Scorsese in a cameo role.[4]

In 1979, Loteanu married actress Galina Belyayeva, who starred in his films A Hunting Accident and Anna Pavlova. Their marriage was a stormy one and lasted five years. They had one child.

In the late 1980s, he returned to "Moldova-Film" and worked on Moldovan television, where he made a film adaption of Mihai Eminescu's poem Luceafărul. Between 1987 and 1992, he was President of the Union of Cinematographers of Moldova. He taught courses for theater actors at the Chisinau Institute of Arts.

In 1998, he staged the play Unconditionally Yours, Antosha Chekhonte based on Chekhov's "The Bear" and "Wedding" at the Moscow Art Theatre named after M. Gorky. He is an author of several collections of poems and short stories, scripts of his films. He is also an author of poetry for the film The Eighth Wonder of the World (1981).

For twelve years, he was trying to get funding to make films. When Loteanu at long last got financing for his film project Yar he died, leaving the project unfinished. He died from cancer on 18 April 2003 in Moscow, at the age of 66. Galina Belyayeva and his doctors hid the diagnosis from him. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.[5][6]

Director Emil Loteanu while working on the film Lautarii, Moldova-film.

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8
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  2. ^ "20 edition. 1972 Awards 10-19 July". San Sebastián International Film Festival. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. ^ "24 edition. 1976 Awards 11-22 September". San Sebastián International Film Festival. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Anna Pavlova (1983–) Full Cast & Crew". IMDB.
  5. ^ "Проводить Лотяну пришли его любимые женщины Романтика советского кинематографа похоронили на Ваганьковском кладбище" (in Russian). Komsomolskaya Pravda. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  6. ^ Jason Buchanan. "Emil Loteanu". AllMovie.com. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

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