Born in Tarutino, then in Romania, in 1933 and dying in Bucharest in 2018, Lucian Pintilie was a theatre director before his first film. The Reenactment (Reconstituirea, 1970), in which two teenagers are forced by the authorities to re-enact a bar fight for an educational film, was banned by the Communist regime, and Pintilie left Romania for France. He returned after 1989 to make The Oak (Balanța, 1992), a bleak portrait of the last days of Ceaușescu's Romania, and An Unforgettable Summer (1994). He is considered a forerunner of the Romanian New Wave.
Filmography
- Reconstruction (1968)
- The Reenactment (1970)
- Carnival Scenes (1981)
- The Oak (1992)
- An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
- Too Late (1996)
- Next Stop Paradise (1998)
- Niki and Flo (2003)