Horațiu-Valentin Mălăele (born 31 July 1952That is according to , accessed 2016-11-21. Th
Horațiu Mălăele
page on the Romanian site cinemagia.ro places his birth one day earlier, on July 31, 1952, and gives the fuller form of his name, ''Horațiu-Valentin'' rather than just ''Horațiu''.) is a

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n actor, cartoonist, writer, and theater and film director. In this last capacity he is often associated with the Romanian New Wave.

Biography

Born in 1952 Târgu-Jiu, he had a public art exhibit in his final year of secondary school, the first of over 30 as of 2016. Mălăele graduated in 1975 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts in

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and first became a professional actor with the National Theater of Romania in

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. He returned to Bucharest, where he became a prominent actor, working in many of Romania's leading theaters including Nottara, Odeon, and Bulandra. He then became a director, directing such plays as ''O sărbătoare princiară'' ("A Princely Feast") by Theodor Mazilu (1982 at Nottara Theatre), ''

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'' by

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(1993 at Nottara Theatre), and ''Carlo contra Carlo'' ("Carlo against Carlo") by Paul Ioachim (1994 at the Odeon), which won him that year's Romanian Comedy Festival Prize. He has since directed over a dozen other stage productions. He first appeared as a film actor in 1974, appearing in two films that year: ''Păcală'' ("Caution") and ''Muntele Ascuns'' ("The Hidden Mountain", and has gone on to act in over two dozen other films. He also directed ''Pălăria'' ("The Hat", 2004, TV movie), ''Nunta mută'' ("

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", 2008), '' Funeralii fericite'' ("Happy Funerals", 2013) and ''Luca'' (2020). He has also written two books: the autobiographical ''Horațiu despre Mălăele'' ("Horațiu about Mălăele", , and ''Wanderings'', a collection of short episodes, aphorisms, and memories.

Selected filmography

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* (in Romanian) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malaele, Horatiu 1952 births Living people People from Târgu Jiu Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film alumni Romanian actors Romanian film directors Romanian theatre directors Romanian writers Romanian magazine cartoonists