Lucian Pintilie
Lucian Pintilie | |
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Born | Lucian Nicolae Pintilie 9 November 1933 |
Died | 16 May 2018 | (aged 84)
Nationality | Romanian |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Lucian Pintilie (Romanian pronunciation:
Early life
Pintilie was born in 1933 in Tarutino, at the time in Cetatea Albă County, Kingdom of Romania.
Theatre
Romania
From 1960 to 1972, Pintilie was resident director at the Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest, Romania. His productions there included George Bernard Shaw's Cesar and Cleopatra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Place in the Sun, William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands, Max Frisch's Biedermann and the Firebugs, Nikolai Gogol's Inspector General and Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard. He also directed the Romanian classic comedy Carnival Scenes by Ion Luca Caragiale, which won the 1967 Prize for the best direction and best production at the National festival of theatre in Romania.
France
From 1973 to 1982, he directed mainly in France at the Théâtre national de Chaillot and the Théâtre de la Ville where he staged, among other plays, Carlo Gozzi's Turandot, Henrik Ibsen's Wild Duck, and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and Seagull.
US
In the United States, in addition to his work at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Pintilie staged Tartuffe and The Wild Duck at Arena Stage.
Opera
In
.Films (selection)
His films brought him international reputation.
Sunday at Six o Clock won the Prize of the Jury at the
In 1968, he directed The Reenactment, considered by film historians to be the most important representation of Romanian cinema.
In 1975, he filmed for
Filmography
- Sunday at Six o Clock(Duminică la ora şase; 1965; director)
- The Reenactment (Reconstituirea; 1968; screenwriter and director)
- Ward Six (Paviljon VI; 1978; director)
- Carnival Scenes (De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?; 1982; screenwriter and director) - see also the "Portrayals and tributes" section at Mitică
- The Oak (Balanţa; 1992; screenwriter, producer and director)
- An Unforgettable Summer (1994; screenwriter and director)
- Too Late (Prea târziu; 1996; screenwriter and director)
- Next Stop Paradise (Terminus Paradis; 1998; screenwriter and director)
- The Afternoon of a Torturer (2001; screenwriter and director)
- Niki and Flo (2003; director)
- Tertium non datur (2006; screenwriter and director). For title meaning see Law of excluded middle.
References
- ^ a b c Lucian Pintilie obituary, The Guardian (30 May 2018)
External links
- Lucian Pintilie at IMDb