Titus Popovici

Titus Popovici
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Born	(1930-05-16)16 May 1930 Oradea, Romania
Died	29 November 1994(1994-11-29) (aged 64) Tulcea, Romania
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1955-1994

Titus Viorel Popovici (16 May 1930 – 29 November 1994) was a Romanian screenwriter and author.^[1]

Biography

He graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1953. Two years later, he published his first novel, Străinul (The Stranger). His first screenplay appeared in 1957. It was an adaptation of the novel Moara cu noroc (The Lucky Mill) by Ioan Slavici. From then on, he concentrated on screenwriting, working with prominent directors such as Liviu Ciulei, Andrei Blaier, Manole Marcus and Sergiu Nicolaescu.

In 1974, he became a corresponding member of the

He died as the result of an automobile accident near Tulcea. It was later suggested that his death was not accidental but, rather, that he was eliminated because he knew too much about the Party's former Nomenklatura.^{[citation needed]}

A street in Oradea was named after him in 2002.

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Titus Popovici at
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