Stere Gulea (born 2 August 1943) is a

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and

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. He was born in

Mihail Kogălniceanu Mihail Kogălniceanu (; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian Liberalism, liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on Octo ...

commune,

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, in an Aromanian family that had fled from the

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region of

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during the 1940

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. After graduating from the Mircea cel Bătrân High School in

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, Gulea studied philology at the Pedagogical Institute of Constanța and then pursued his studies at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in

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, graduating in 1970. He made his film director debut that year with ' ("The Water Like a Black Buffalo"); this documentary movie, done in collaboration with his IATC colleagues, Dan Pița and

Mircea Veroiu Mircea Veroiu (; 29 April 1941 – 26 December 1997) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, k ...

, record the catastrophic 1970 floods in Romania. In the early 1970s, he produced and directed a

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documentary based on

Mateiu Caragiale Mateiu Ion Caragiale (; – 17 January 1936), also credited as Matei or Matheiu, or in the antiquated version Mateiŭ,Sorin Antohi"Romania and the Balkans. From Geocultural Bovarism to Ethnic Ontology" in ''Tr@nsit online'', Institut für die Wi ...

's life; his first feature film was ' ("The Green Grass from Home", 1978), based on a screenplay by . His 1995 movie, State of Things, was submitted by Romania for the

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. In 2019, he won the Gopo Award for best movie with , This film is a sequel to The Moromete Family (1988), also directed by Gulea, both based on the eponymous novel by

Marin Preda Marin Preda (; 5 August 1922, Siliștea Gumești, Teleorman County, Kingdom of Romania – 16 May 1980, Mogoșoaia, Ilfov County], Socialist Republic of Romania) was a Romanian novelist, post-war writer and director of Cartea Românească p ...

. In 2018 Gulea was made honorary citizen of Talpa, Teleorman, Talpa, the commune in

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where both these movies were shot. In 2000, then-

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awarded him the

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, Commander rank.

Filmography

*' (2018) *'' Sunt o babă comunistă'' (2013) *'' Weekend with my Mother'' (2009) *'' State of Things'' (1995), also screenplay *' (1993) *'' Piata Universității - Romania'' (1991) *'' The Moromete Family'' (1988), after Marin Preda's novel, '' Moromeții'' *' (1983), screenplay *' (1981), after a

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novel *' (1978) *' (1970)

References

External links

Cinemagia - Stere Gulea
* 1943 births Living people People from Constanța County Romanian people of Aromanian descent Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film alumni Romanian documentary filmmakers Romanian film directors Aromanian film people Commanders of the Order of the Star of Romania Mircea cel Bătrân National College (Constanța) alumni {{Romania-film-director-stub