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''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 Mar ...
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Sergiu Nicolaescu
Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (; 13 April 1930 – 3 January 2013) was a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He was best known for his historical films, such as ''Mihai Viteazul'' (1970, released in English both under the equivalent title ''Michael the Brave'' and also as ''The Last Crusade''), '' Dacii'' (1966, ''Les Guerriers''), ''Războiul IndependenÈ›ei'' (1977, ''War of Independence''), as well as for his series of thrillers that take place in the interwar Kingdom of Romania, such as '' Un comisar acuză'' (1973, ''A Police Inspector Calls''). Joanna PacuÅ‚a starred in his film ''Ultima noapte de dragoste'' (''The Last Night of Love'') in 1980 before eventually emigrating to the United States, where he went on to a very successful career. Early life and education Nicolaescu was born in Târgu Jiu, Gorj County, but grew up in TimiÈ™oara, where his family moved when he was 5 years old. He graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest as a mechanical engine ...
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the Chancellor of Germany, chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated European theatre of World War II, World War II in Europe by invasion of Poland, invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of Holocaust victims, about six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and was raised near Linz. He lived in Vienna later in the first decade of the 1900s and moved to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his Military career of Adolf Hitler, service in the German Army in Worl ...
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Dinu Brătianu
Dinu Brătianu (January 13, 1866 – May 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 Born at the estate of ''Florica'', in ȘtefăneÈ™ti, ArgeÈ™ County, he was the son of the great Romanian statesman Ion Brătianu, and the brother of Ion I. C. Brătianu and Vintilă Brătianu. He studied engineering at the Bucharest Polytechnic and at the École des mines in Paris. Although first elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Romania in 1895 (and was elected without interruption between 1910 and 1938), he held no governmental position until 1933–1934 (when he was Minister of Finance). Under Carol and Antonescu After the assassination of Prime Minister Ion G. Duca by the Iron Guard (December, 1933), he became head of the PNL. During the inter-war period, he became active in opposing the authoritarian regime of King Carol II and his Prime Minister Gheorghe TătÄ ...
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Vladimir Găitan
Vladimir Găitan (; 2 February 1947 – 10 November 2020) was a Romanian actor. Born in Suceava, he studied at the Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, graduating in 1970. Găitan appeared in more than forty films since 1968. He died on 10 November 2020 after fighting against lymphatic cancer, and was buried at Bellu Cemetery Șerban Vodă Cemetery (commonly known as Bellu Cemetery) is the largest and most famous cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. It is located on a plot of land donated to the local administration by Baron Barbu Bellu. It has been in use since 1858. T ..., in Bucharest. Selected filmography References External links * 1947 births 2020 deaths People from Suceava Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film alumni Romanian male film actors 20th-century Romanian male actors 21st-century Romanian male actors Deaths from cancer in Romania Burials at Bellu Cemetery {{Romania-actor-stub ...
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Constantin Sănătescu
Constantin Sănătescu (14 January 1885 – 8 November 1947) was a Romanian general and statesman who served as the 44th Prime Minister of Romania after the 23 August 1944 coup after which Romania left the Axis powers and joined the Allies. Early life and military career Sănătescu was born on January 14, 1885, in Craiova. He was the son of the infantry lieutenant Gheorghe Sănătescu (1858–1942), a future general.Leonida Loghin, Aurel Lupășteanu, Constantin Ucrain, ''Bărbați ai datoriei: 23 august 1944 – 12 mai 1945. Mic dicționar'', Editura Militară, București, 1985, p. 369. He graduated from the School of Sons of Soldiers in Iași (1905), then attended the Military School of Infantry and Cavalry in Bucharest (September 1, 1905 – July 1, 1907). He attended military school in the same class with future Generals Gheorghe Mihail and Nicolae Macici, being promoted after graduation to the rank of second lieutenant (July 1, 1907) and assigned to the 5th Roșiori Regimen ...
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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. He was a well-known actor of stage and screen in the 1980s and 1990s, having performed in over 50 movies and stage productions. At the time of his death, on 25 January 2012, he was performing at the Nottara Theatre in Bucharest alongside his wife, the actress Catrinel Dumitrescu. Hossu died of a cardiac arrest, just as he was about to go on stage in a play called ''The Anniversary''. He is interred at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest. Selected filmography * ''Songs of the Sea'' (1970) - Pavel * '' Accident'' (1976) - Lt. Nistor * ''The Secret of Bacchus'' (1984) - Victor Mirea * ''Om sărac, om bogat'' (2006) - Mircea Prodan * ''Chiquititas'' (2007) - Victor Mărăscu * '' Inimă de È›igan'' (2008) - Titel * '' Fetele Marinarului'' (2009) - Don Juan * '' Ho Ho Ho (film)'' (2009) - Ion's father * ''Iubire È™i onoare E ...
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Mitică Popescu
Mitică Popescu (; 2 December 1936 – 3 January 2023) was a Romanian actor. Biography Popescu was born in Bucharest on 2 December 1936. He died on 3 January, at the age of 86, at the Elias Hospital in Bucharest, where he was hospitalized. Activity Theatre * ''Philadelphia Here I Come!'' by Brian Friel (1973) * ''Vreți să jucați cu noi?'' by Alecu Popovici (1974) * ''Logodnicul, Momâie- Matca'' by Marin Sorescu (1974) * ''Andrei- Răspântia cea mare'' by V. I. Popa (1974) *''Sagredo- Galileo Galilei'' by Bertolt Brecht (1975) * ''Serviescu'', ''Mânia posturilor'' by Vasile Alecsandri (1975) * ''Doctorul John C.Bates'', ''Dosarul Andersonville'' by Saul Levitt (1976) * ''Hjalmar Ekdal, fotograf'', ''Rața sălbatică'' by Henrik Ibsen (1976) * ''Cititorul by contor'' by Paul Everac (1976) * ''Ducele – Oamenii cavernelor'' by William Saroyan (1976) * ''Stelică – Două ore by pace'' by D. R. Popescu (1977) * ''Omul, continuați să puneți întrebări'' by Ada ...
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Petru Groza
Petru Groza (7 December 1884 – 7 January 1958) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (nominal head of state of Romania) from 1952 until his death in 1958. Groza emerged as a public figure at the end of World War I as a notable member of the Romanian National Party (PNR), preeminent layman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and then member of the Directory Council of Transylvania. In 1925–26 he served as Minister of State in the cabinet of Marshal Alexandru Averescu. In 1933, Groza founded a left-wing Agrarianism, Agrarian organization known as the Ploughmen's Front (''Frontul Plugarilor''). The left-wing ideas he supported earned him the nickname ''The Red Bourgeois''. Groza became Premier in 1945 when Nicolae Rădescu, a le ...
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Dorel Vișan
Dorel Vișan (; born 25 June 1937) is a Romanian actor. He has appeared in 65 films since 1974. He was nominated for the award of Best Actor at the 1988 European Film Awards. He was born in Tăușeni, Cluj County. In 1965 he graduated from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest. After graduating, he was hired as an actor at the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre. In May 2012 Vișan was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank by then- President Ion Iliescu. Selected filmography * ''A Girl's Tears'' (1980) * '' The Moromete Family'' (1987) * '' Iacob'' (1988) * '' The Oak'' (1992) * ''The Snails' Senator ''The Snails' Senator'' ( ro, Senatorul melcilor) is a 1995 Romanian comedy film directed by Mircea Daneliuc. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Dorel Vișan – Senator Vârtosu * – Cireșica Tudorache * Clara Vodă – ...'' (1995) * '' Too Late'' (1996) * '' Occident'' (2002) * ''Sistemul ner ...
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Eugen Cristescu
Eugen Cristescu (3 April 1895 – 12 June 1950) was the second head of the Kingdom of Romania's domestic espionage agency, the Secret Intelligence Service (SSI), forerunner of today's SRI, convicted in 1946 as a war criminal. He previously served as head of SiguranÈ›a Statului, the secret police. Biography Early life Cristescu was born in Oituz, Bacău County into a large, poor family. His father Ioan was a schoolteacher there, while his mother's main occupation was raising her six sons and three daughters. His brothers were Ioan, chief of staff at the Ilfov County prefecture; Vasile, lieutenant colonel in the personal guard of Marshal Ion Antonescu; Mihai, commissioner at the Bucharest Prefecture; Mircea, employee of the Foreign Ministry's Protocol Service; and Gheorghe, head of the photo identification service and then a director in the Secret Intelligence Service of the Romanian Army, which on 13 November 1940, a day after Eugen became its head, was renamed the Special Inte ...
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Ștefan Iordache
Ştefan Iordache (; 3 February 1941 – 14 September 2008) was a Romanian actor. Iordache was born in Calafat. In 2006, he was voted the best actor in Romania. He died, aged 67, in Vienna, Austria. Selected films *''Inimă de țigan'' (2007) - Didi Sfiosu *''Ticalosii'' (2007) — Didi Sfiosu *''The Earth's Most Beloved Son'' (1993) — Victor Petrini *'' Cei care platesc cu viata'' (1991) — Serban Saru-Sinesti *''Ciuleandra'' (1985) *''Glissando In music, a glissando (; plural: ''glissandi'', abbreviated ''gliss.'') is a glide from one pitch to another (). It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French ''glisser'', "to glide". In some contexts, it is distinguished from the co ...'' (1985) * ''De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?'' (1981) References External links * 1941 births 2008 deaths Romanian male actors Deaths from leukemia Deaths from cancer in Austria {{Romania-actor-stub ...
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Mircea Ionnițiu
Mircea Ionnițiu (sometimes incorrectly spelled "Ioanițiu" or "Ioannițiu") (born date unknown, 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 Palatine Class, 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 events, 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. Mircea Ionnițiu left Romania on January 3, 1948, in the Royal Train, together with the Royal Family of Romania that was departing in forced exile Exile is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriati ...
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