MOVIES FILMED IN ROMANIA
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Cold Mountain
7 Seconds
Borat
Slaughter
ROMANIAN CINEMA GETS ITS START
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The history of cinema in Romania started before 1900
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The first cinematographic projection in Romania took place on May 27, 1896,
less than five months after the first public film exhibition by the Lumière
brothers in December 1895 in Paris
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In 1897, the French cameraman Paul Menu (an employee of the Lumière
brothers) shot the first film set in Romania, The Royal parade on 10 May 1897,
showing King Carol I mounted, taking his place on the boulevard to head the
parade
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In May 1909, the first theater in Romania built especially for exhibiting films
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Volta, was opened on Doamnei Street in Bucharest.Transylvania, then part
of Austria-Hungary, had already had its first movie theatre in Brașov since 1901
EARLY FICTIONAL ROMANIAN SILENT FILMS
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The first Romanian fiction film
was Amor fatal (Fatal Love Affair),
starring Lucia Sturdza, Tony Bulandra
and Aurel Barbelian, actors from
the National Theatre Bucharest
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On November 7, 1911, the
film Înşirăte mărgărite... (Spread
Yourselves, Daisies) premiered. It was
based on Victor Eftimiu's poem
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On 5 May 1912, the
magazine Flacăra (The Flame)
brought to its readers' attention the
fact that "as it is known, a few artists
have founded a society with the goal
of producing a film about the War of
Independence
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Pictured right: The National Theatre
Bucharest
EARLY ROMANIAN TALKING FILMS
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German director Martin Berger, directed the first Romanian talking film in 1930
based on the novel by Liviu Rebreanuwith the same name, Ciuleandra (film)
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The film was not very good because the famous German actors provoked laughter
through the German accent they had when speaking Romanian
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1932 brought the production Visul lui Tănase (Tănase's Dream) to Romanian
screens. It was self-produced in Berlin by Constantin Tănase. He was the film's
financier, screenwriter, and its principal star alongside several good Romanian
actors, while the German side provided the studio, direction, technicians, and a
troupe of actors.
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Enthusiastic Romanian directors, due to lack of funds and disinterest on the part
of the ruling authorities, all began to take other paths in their lives
CINEMA DURING COMMUNISM
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On November 2, 1948, Decree 303, regarding "the nationalization of the film
industry and the regulation of commerce in cinematic products", was signed
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Films had to actively strive to show the realities of the new society
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Socialist films had to reflect the struggle of the "new man" against the "old
retrograde society, a society in which man exploited his fellow man, full of
capitalists and men of inherited wealth who sucked the blood of the working
classes“
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Also notable is the fact that the choice of actors for such productions was not
random. Fat actors, especially those with a paunch, were chosen to play the
landed gentry, while poor peasants were played by those actors who were thin yet
possessed a piercing gaze
ROMANIAN CINEMA (1990-PRESENT)
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Filmmakers examined the Communist period and the economic and spiritual
crisis in the country.
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Production often depended on the state grants, awarded by a jury; it was found
that many of the grants were awarded within a clique of earlier members of the
jury, twisting the goal of the system
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In 2005, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, a journey through the Romanian health
care system, competed in the un certain regard category of the Cannes Film
Festival and won the prize "Un certain regard“
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At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu won the
Camera d'Or best-first-feature award for 12:08 East of Bucharest
ROMANIAN NEW WAVE
• Romanian New Wave
• A blanket term applied to a plethora of internationally
acclaimed films made in Romania since the mid-aughts,
starting with Trafic
• Trafic
• 2004 Romanian short film directed by Cătălin Mitulescu.
• It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film
Festival
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A37TDytOnhI
MOVIE STUDIO
• MediaPro Pictures
• MediaPro Pictures is the largest film and TV production company
in Romania, part of MediaPro Entertainment along with other
production units from Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia,
Slovenia and Bulgaria
• Since 2009, MediaPro Entertainment is part of CME (Central
European Media Enterprises), a vertically integrated media and
entertainment group
ROMANIAN DIRECTORS
• Corneliu Porumboiu
(1975- )
• Born in Vaslui, Romania
• His 2006 feature 12:08 East
of Bucharest won him
the Camera d'Or prize at
the Cannes Film Festival
• He is the son of well-known
football referee Adrian
Porumboiu
ROMANIAN DIRECTORS
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Liviu Ciulei
(1923 –2011)
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Born in Bucharest, Romania
Romanian theater and film director,
film writer, actor, architect,
educator, costume and set
designer
Was the recipient of the Directors'
Award at the 1965 Cannes Film
Festival for The Forest of the
Hanged
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ROMANIAN ACTORS
• Toma Caragiu
(1925-1977)
 Born in Aetomilitsa,
Greece
 One of the best
Romanian actors, with a
rich activity in both film
and theatre
 Most famous for his
monologues
ROMANIAN ACTORS
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Mihaela Mitrache
(1955 - )
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Born in Bucharest, Romania
In movies such as
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Filantropica
The trip
The death of an artist