Emil Loteanu was a Soviet and Moldovian film director from Greater Romania

Greater Romania

The Greater Romania generally refers to the territory of Romania in the years between the First World War and the Second World War, the largest geographical extent of Romania up to that time and its largest peacetime extent ever ; more precisely, it refers to the territory of the Kingdom of...

. He moved to Moscow in his early life.

Biography

Loteanu was born in Clocuşna

Clocuşna

Clocuşna is a commune in Ocniţa district, Moldova. It is composed of a single village, Clocuşna....

, and after the death of his father and losing contact with his mother, who had moved to Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

, lived his early life on the streets, sleeping in warehouses and hostels. He studied at the Mkhat studio school and graduated from VGIK in 1962. He made his directorial debut with Bolshaya gora in 1960 at the Moldova Film Studio, and continued to make films there until 1975, when he joined Mosfilm

Mosfilm

Mosfilm is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein , to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production and the epic Война и Мир...

. With films such as Tabor ukhodit v nebo (aka Queen of the Gypsies

Queen of the Gypsies

Queen of the Gypsies One of the songs near the introduction of the film had become popular on Youtube as the "Gypsie Song".It was the most attended movie in the Soviet Union in 1976, with 64.9 million tickets sold.-External links:*...

, 1975) and Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver (aka A Hunting Accident, (1977), Loteanu began to attract international attention.

Loteanu died on April 18, 2003, in Moscow, at the age of 66.

Filmography

• Bolshaya gora (1959) - director
• Zhil-byl malchik (1960) aka There Was a Young Boy - director
• Zhdite nas na rassvete (1963) aka Wait for Us at Dawn - director
• Krasnye polyany (1966) - writer/director
• Freska na belom (1967) - director
• Eto mgnovenie (1968) - director
• Akademik Tarasevich (1970) - director
• Lăutarii
  Lăutarii
  Lăutarii is a 1971 film directed by Emil Loteanu and produced by Vitaliy Kalashnikov, composer Eugen Doga. The movie was a success, particularly in Italy. The movie received four prizes, including the Special Jury Award International Film Festival in San Sebastián ....
  
  (1971) aka Fiddlers - writer/director
• Ekho goryachey doliny (1974) aka Their Torrid Valleys - director
• Tabor ukhodit v nebo (1975) aka Queen of the Gypsies
  Queen of the Gypsies
  Queen of the Gypsies One of the songs near the introduction of the film had become popular on Youtube as the "Gypsie Song".It was the most attended movie in the Soviet Union in 1976, with 64.9 million tickets sold.-External links:*...
  
  - writer/director
• Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver (1978) aka A Hunting Accident
  A Hunting Accident
  A Hunting Accident is a 1978 Soviet drama film directed by Emil Loteanu. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. It is adapted from Anton Chekhov's "The Shooting Party."-Cast:* Galina Belyayeva as Olga...
  
  - writer/director
• Anna Pavlova
  Anna Pavlova (film)
  Anna Pavlova is a 1983 biographical film directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva, James Fox and Sergey Shakurov. It depicts the life of the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova. It was a co-production between Britain and the Soviet Union...
  
  (1983) aka A Woman for All Time - writer/director
• Luceafărul (1987) aka The Morning Star - writer/director
• Vdvoyom na grani vremeni (1989) - writer
• Skorlupa (1993) aka The Shell - director

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