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Oglinda
''Oglinda'' ("The Mirror"), also known as ''Începutul adevărului'' ("The Beginning of Truth"), is a controversial 1993 film by Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu. It depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup of 23 August 1944 that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied '' Conducător'' and authoritarian Prime Minister. Cast * as Ion Antonescu * as Michael I of Romania * Gheorghe Dinică as Mihai Antonescu * as Iuliu Maniu *George Constantin as Andrey Vyshinsky *Sergiu Nicolaescu as Johannes Frießner * as Adolf Hitler *Peter Wolf Joachim as Joachim von Ribbentrop * Șerban Ionescu as Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu * George Alexandru as * as Mircea Ionnițiu * Ștefan Iordache as Eugen Cristescu * Dorel Vișan as Petru Groza * Mitică Popescu as Dumitru Săracu * Emil Hossu as Colonel *Ion Lupu as General Constantin Sănătescu *Vladimir Găitan as Dinu Brătianu * as * Iurie Darie as Iorgu Ghica * as SS-Standartenführer * as Gheorghe Brătianu * as Mars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (; 13 April 1930 – 3 January 2013) was a Romanian people, Romanian film director, actor and politician. He was best known for his historical films, such as ''Michael the Brave (film), Mihai Viteazul'' (1970, released in English both under the equivalent title ''Michael the Brave'' and also as ''The Last Crusade''), ''Dacii (film), Dacii'' (1966, ''Les Guerriers''), ''Războiul Independenței'' (1977, ''War of Independence''), as well as for his series of Thriller (genre), thrillers that take place in the interwar period, interwar Kingdom of Romania, such as ''Un comisar acuză'' (1973, ''A Police Inspector Calls''). Joanna Pacuła starred in his film '':ro:Ultima noapte de dragoste, The Last Night of Love'' in 1980 before eventually emigrating to the United States, where she went on to a very successful career. Early life and education Sergiu Nicolaescu's father was Nicola Pantilimon, an Aromanians, Aromanian who emigrated from Macedonia (region), Mace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu (; 4 November 1900 – 17 April 1954) was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he was a professor at the University of Bucharest. Pătrășcanu rose to a government position before the end of World War II and, after having disagreed with Stalinist tenets on several occasions, eventually came into conflict with the Romanian Communist government of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He became a political prisoner and was ultimately executed. Fourteen years after Pătrășcanu's death, Romania's new communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, endorsed his rehabilitation as part of a change in policy. Early life Pătrășcanu was born in Bacău to a leading political family, as the son of Poporanist figure Dimitrie D. Pătrășcanu (Lucrețiu's mother, Lucreția, was a scion of the Stoika family of Transylvanian petty nobility). He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Dinică
Gheorghe Dinică (; 1 January 1934 – 10 November 2009) was a Romanian actor. Career Dinică showed an early interest in acting, being part of different amateur theater troupes since he was 17. In 1957, he entered The National Institute of Theatre and Cinematography Art in Bucharest. He graduated in 1961, already drawing public attention with the role of Inspector Goole in the graduation play '' An Inspector Calls''. Since then, Gheorghe Dinică performed for some of the most important Romanian theatres: * 1961-1967 ''Comedy Theatre'', Bucharest * 1968-1969 '' Bulandra Theatre'', Bucharest * since 1972 '' I.L.Caragiale National Theatre'', Bucharest Dinică was a Romanian director and popular film actor, thus acting mostly in Romanian films. Like the French actor Alain Delon, Dinică refused to act in movies produced in the United States. Since 2002, Dinică was an honorary member of the society of ''I.L.Caragiale National Theatre''. He is also an honorary citizen of the city o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Hossu
Emil Hossu (; 24 November 1941 – 25 January 2012) was a Romanian actor. Hossu was born into a Greek-Catholic family in Ocna Sibiului, Sibiu County and grew up in Cluj. Since his father was a diplomat during the time of Ion Antonescu, his whole family was deported on August 23, 1945 to a camp in Germany; after a year and three months, they escaped and returned to Romania. In 1948, his father was sent by the Communist authorities to forced labor at the Danube–Black Sea Canal, from where he returned after 6 months, only to die from cancer. After completing Cantemir Vodă High School in Bucharest, Hossu studied at the Institute of Theatre and Film Arts, which he graduated in 1965. With his first wife, violinist Anca Hossu, he had a son, Dan. He was a well-known actor of stage and screen in the 1980s and 1990s, having performed in over 50 movies and stage productions. In 2002, he was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank. At the time of his death, on 25 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Alexandru
George Alexandru (; 21 November 1957 – 1 January 2016) was a Romanian film and theater actor. Filmography * ' (1978) * ' (1980) * ' (1983) * ' (1985) * '' Noi, cei din linia întâi'' (1985) * ''Figuranții'' (1987) * ''François Villon - Poetul vagabond'' (1987) * ''Drumeț în calea lupilor'' (1988) * ''Rezervă la start'' (1988) * ''Mircea'' (1989) * ''Cenușa păsării din vis'' (1989) * ''Coroana de foc'' (1990) * ''Escu'' (1990) - film TV * ''Drumul câinilor'' (1991) * ''Cezara'' (1991) * ''Cum vă place?'' (1992) * ''Înnebunesc și-mi pare rău'' (1992) * ''Balanța'' (1992) * ''Rămânerea'' (1992) * ''Chira Chiralina'' (1993) * ''Vulpe - vânător'' (1993) * ''Polul Sud'' (1993) * ''Oglinda ''Oglinda'' ("The Mirror"), also known as ''Începutul adevărului'' ("The Beginning of Truth"), is a controversial 1993 film by Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu. It depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup of 23 August ...'' (1994) * ''E pericoloso s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Șerban Ionescu
Șerban Ionescu (; 23 September 1950 – 21 November 2012) was a Romanian actor, born in Corabia, Olt County.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409588 Ionescu was diagnosed with ALS in 2011 and died at Floreasca Emergency Hospital in Bucharest on 21 November 2012. Filmography * ''Ion: Blestemul pământului, blestemul iubirii'' (1979) * ''Capcana mercenarilor'' (1981) * ''Lumini și umbre'' (TV, 1981) * ''Lumini și umbre: Partea II'' (TV, 1982) * ''Imposibila iubire'' (1983) * ''Acasă'' (1984) * ''Furtună în Pacific'' (1985) * ''Marele premiu'' (1985) * ''Bătălia din umbră'' (1986) * ''Pădurea'' (1986) * ''Pădureanca'' (1987) * ''Martori dispăruți'' (1988) * ''Mircea Mircea is a Romanian language, Romanian masculine given name, a form of the South Slavic name, South Slavic name Mirče (Мирче) that derives from the Slavic word ''mir'', meaning 'peace'. It may refer to: People Princes of Wallachia * M ...'' (1989) * ''Lacrima cerului'' (1989) * ''Cezara'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Constantin
George Constantin (; 3 May 1933 – 26 April 1994) was a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1960 to 1994. Born in Bucharest, he graduated in 1956 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC), after which he started playing at the . In the early 1960s he married the mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ... (the sister of actress Tamara Buciuceanu); their son , born in 1964, is also an actor. In 1971, he was awarded the , 2nd class. Selected filmography References External links * 1933 births 1994 deaths Male actors from Bucharest Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film alumni Romanian male film actors Romanian male stage actors Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Romania) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iurie Darie
Iurie Darie (; 14 March 1929 – 9 November 2012) was a Romanian actor. Biography He was born in Vadul-Rașcov, Soroca County, Kingdom of Romania. He studied at the Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, graduating in 1952. He made his film debut in 1953, playing Miron in '' The Bugler's Grandsons''. In 2002, Darie received the National Order of Faithful Service with the rank of Knight for his prestigious artistic career. During his last years Darie suffered from several health problems, including respiratory and cardiac insufficiency and also a stroke. He died on 9 November 2012, aged 83, in Bucharest, surrounded by his family. He was buried in the city's Sfânta Vineri Cemetery. Partial filmography According to IMDB, Iurie Darie featured in 50 films and television series in his six decade-long career. * '' The Bugler's Grandsons'' (1953) - Miron * '' The Sun Rises'' (1954) - Miron * ' (1955) * ' (1955) * '' Alarm in the Mountains'' (1955) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu (; ; – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and Mareșal (Romania), marshal who presided over two successive Romania during World War II, wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister of Romania, Prime Minister and ''Conducător'' during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was overthrown in 1944, before being tried for war crimes and executed two years later in 1946. A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 Romanian peasants' revolt, 1907 peasants' revolt and the Romania in World War I, World War I Romanian campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with Far-right politics, far-right and Fascism, fascist politics. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the Romanian General Staff, Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Ministry of National Defense (Romania), Defence Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga as well as the subsequent F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political ''status quo'', and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military. States that have a blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism have sometimes been characterized as "hybrid democracies", " hybrid regimes" or "competitive authoritarian" states. The political scientist Juan Linz, in an influential 1964 work, ''An Authoritarian Regime: Spain'', defined authoritarianism as possessing four qualities: # Limited political pluralism, which is achieved with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups. # Political legitimacy based on appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircea Ionnițiu
Mircea Ionnițiu (sometimes incorrectly spelled "Ioanițiu" or "Ioannițiu") (September 27, 1921, Bucharest – November 13, 1990, Woodland Hills, California, United States) was a Romanian writer, author of memorial notes. In his adolescence, he was a member of the , a special class of pupils that was formed upon the request of King Carol II of Romania, for the education of his only son, Prince Michael (proclaimed king as Michael I in 1940). Around 1944, Mircea Ionnițiu was a personal secretary of King Michael I. In this job, he was a direct witness of the August 23rd coup d'état, of the imposition of the first Petru Groza cabinet through Soviet pressure (March 6, 1945) and of the king's forced abdication on December 30, 1947. Ionnițiu left Romania on January 3, 1948, in the Royal Train, together with the Royal Family of Romania that was departing in forced exile. Later, in 1984, he wrote his memoirs about these historical events in his book ''Amintiri și reflecțiuni'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinu Brătianu
Dinu Brătianu (; January 13, 1866 – August 20, 1950), born Constantin I. C. Brătianu, was a Romanian engineer and politician who led the National Liberal Party (PNL) starting in 1934. Life Early career He was born at the estate of ''Florica'', in Ștefănești, Argeș County, the son of the great Romanian statesman Ion Brătianu and of his wife, (née Pleșoianu). The fourth of five children, his brothers were Ion I. C. Brătianu and Vintilă Brătianu. Dinu Brătianu attended Saint Sava High School in Bucharest, while also taking private lessons with the mathematicians Spiru Haret and David Emmanuel. He then studied engineering at the Bucharest Polytechnic, graduating in 1890, and then pursued his studies at the École des mines in Paris. Upon returning to Romania, he worked on the coordination of oil field exploitation works in Solonț, Bacău County. He took part in the installation of the first wells in Moinești, in the construction of the railway that was m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
