Mircea Mureșan (11 November 1928 – 24 April 2020) was a Romanian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. He directed 22 films between 1961 and 2004. Mureșan won the prize for Best First Work at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for the film ''

Răscoala ''Răscoala'' is a 1965 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Mureșan based on a novel by Liviu Rebreanu about the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907. Mureșan won the prize for Best First Work at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It was the fir ...

''. Born in

Sibiu Sibiu ( , , german: link=no, Hermannstadt , la, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'', hu, Nagyszeben ) is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Ci ...

, he attended from 1939 to 1947 the

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in his native city. He then played at the State Theatre of Sibiu for four years, after which he went to

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north ...

to pursue his studies, graduating from the Institute of Film I.L. Caragiale in 1955. His film career, which began with film adaptations, gradually reoriented towards comedy, with rare trips into documentaries. From 1974 to 1989 Mureșan was vice-president of the Romanian Filmmakers Association. He was married to actress .

Filmography

* ''Toamna se numără bobocii'', 1961 (screenwriter, with

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) * ', 1963 * ''

'', 1965 * ''K.O.'', 1968 (screenwriter, with Eugen Popiță) * ', 1969 (scenario after

Mihail Sadoveanu Mihail Sadoveanu (; occasionally referred to as Mihai Sadoveanu; November 5, 1880 – October 19, 1961) was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communis ...

's eponymous novel) * ''Lunga noapte de șase ani'', 1970 (documentary, has been destroyed) * ', 1970 (screenwriter, with Corneliu Leu) * ', 1972 * ', 1973 * ''

Toate pînzele sus ''Toate pînzele sus'' is a TV series of the Romanian Television (TVR), a film adaptation of the novel of the same name, ' ("All Sails Up!"), written by Radu Tudoran.

'', 1976 (for TV; screenwriter, with Alexandru Struțeanu) * ', 1977 * '' Blestemul pământului, blestemul iubirii'', 1979 * ', 1981 (screenwriter) * ', 1981–1982 (for TV; with

Andrei Blaier Andrei Blaier (15 May 1933 – 1 December 2011) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 1958 film '' The Ball'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival The 1st Moscow International Film Festival was held from ...

and Mihai Constantinescu) * ''O lebădă, iarna'', 1983 * ', 1984 * ''Cei mai frumoși 20 de ani'', 1985 * ', 1988 * ', 1991 * ', 1994 * ', 2001 (screenwriter) * ''Vrăjitoarea Azucena – Îngerul de abanos'', 2004 (screenwriter)

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* 1928 births 2020 deaths Romanian film directors People from Sibiu Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film alumni Romanian screenwriters {{Romania-film-director-stub