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Sergiu Nicolaescu
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13 April 1930 - 3 January 2013
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Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu was born on April 13, 1930 in Romania. In 1952 he graduated from the Mechanical Faculty of the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, but in his main profession he worked for a short time, in 1954 leaving the position of engineer of the Romanian Optical Plant in cinema. He began as a screenwriter and director of popular science films. In feature films, his debut took place in 1961, when Nicolaescu directed the lyrical short film Ordinary Spring, which was awarded an international
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Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu was born on April 13, 1930 in Romania. In 1952 he graduated from the Mechanical Faculty of the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute, but in his main profession he worked for a short time, in 1954 leaving the position of engineer of the Romanian Optical Plant in cinema. He began as a screenwriter and director of popular science films. In feature films, his debut took place in 1961, when Nicolaescu directed the lyrical short film Ordinary Spring, which was awarded an international award. His other short film, Memory of Roses (1964), was successful. Then Sergiu Nicolaescu went to commercial cinema and in 1967 staged the historical film “Ducky”, which made a lot of noise in Europe. Then he turned to the “Indian” theme, filming the novel by F. Cooper “Pathfinder”. Then the director again turned to historical themes, shooting in 1970 the picture “Mihai the Brave”. Later, Nikolaescu engaged in adventure films, shooting "gangster" films, putting a series of films about Commissioner Tudor Miklovan (and this role he played himself) and his assistant Mihai Roman: "Clean Hands" (1972), "The Last Cartridge" (1973), "The Police Commissioner Accuses" (1974), "Kara" ("Always Guilty", 1976), "An Accident" (1977). His other films include “Then I Sentenced Them All to Death” (1972), “The Immortals” (1974), “Revenge” and “For the Motherland” (1978), “The Last Night of Love” (1980), “The Trap for Mercenaries” and “Duel” (1981). In total, the director has about 70 feature films. In 1989, Sergiu Nicolaescu took an active part in the overthrow of the Ceausescu dictatorship, since 1990 he was repeatedly elected to the Romanian Senate, was Vice-President of the Committee for Culture, Arts and Media. Since November 2000, he has been Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Culture, Arts and Media, a member of the Defense, Public Order and National Security Commission, and a member of the delegation of the Romanian Parliament to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Author of several books.