Victoria Ivanovna Barbă (also Barbe; 19 September 1926 – 3 May 2020; russian: Виктория Ивановна Барбэ) was a

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n animated film director, focused on movies for children. Having been born in modern

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, she studied in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and then in

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, today in Moldova. She had a productive career, with an extensive filmography and numerous earned distinctions.

Biography

Victoria Barbă was born on 19 September 1926 in Tambov, in the

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(now in

). Her father was a Megleno-Romanian, and she belonged to a family originally displaced from

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following the

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in 1913, after which they emigrated to the Tambov Governorate in the

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. Barbă studied in the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design in Leningrad (now

, today in Russia) and in the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical Institute in

(today in

). She would become director of animated films, especially oriented for children. She produced for

Moldova-Film ''Moldova-Film'' ( ro, Moldova-film, russian: Молдова-фильм) is a Moldovan film studio and production company founded in 1952 in the Moldavian SSR. History Moldova-Film was founded in 1947 in Chişinău as a branch of the Central Stu ...

, a film studio and production company of the

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, and founded the Floricica Production House, aimed at cinema for children. During her career, Barbă received 98 diplomas, 19 awards and 8 gold medals at Soviet and Moldovan film festivals. Her filmography includes the following films: ''Puiul de cocostârc în colivie'' ("The Baby Stork in a Cage", 1979), ''Mărțișor – sărbătoarea primăverii'', ("

Mărțișor Mărțișor () is the Romanian name of a tradition celebrated at the beginning of spring, in the month of March, and the name of the associated object made from two intertwined red and white strings with hanging tassel in Romania and Moldova, ve ...

– the Feast of Spring", 1980), ''Copii, soarele și zăpada'' ("Children, Sun and Snow", 1981), ''În jurul lumii'' ("Around the World", 1982), ''Opriți timpul'' ("Stop Time", 1982), ''Dragoste de țară'' ("Love to the Country", 1983), ''Hora de stele'' (" Hora of Stars", 1985), ''Ziua de naștere a Carolinei'' ("Carolina's Birthday", 1986), ''Căderea frunzelor'' ("Fall of the Leaves", 1987), ''Podul de stele'' ("Bridge of Stars", 1987), ''Fantezie cosmică'' ("Cosmic Fantasy", 1989), ''Iepurașul din ianuarie'' ("The January Rabbit", 1991). Barbă died on 3 May 2020, aged 93.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barba, Victoria 1926 births 2020 deaths People from Tambov Moldovan film directors Soviet women film directors Soviet animation directors Moldovan people of Megleno-Romanian descent Russian people of Moldovan descent Russian people of Megleno-Romanian descent Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design alumni Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University alumni