Radu Gabrea

Romanian film director

Radu Gabrea
Radu Gabrea in 2009
Born	Radu Bartolomeu Gabrea (1937-06-20)20 June 1937 Bucharest, Romania
Died	9 February 2017(2017-02-09) (aged 80) Bucharest, Romania
Resting place	Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest
Alma mater	Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1969–2016

Radu Bartolomeu Gabrea (20 June 1937 – 9 February 2017) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter.^[1] He directed more than twenty films between 1969 and 2016.^[2] He showed his first film in the Locarno Festival.^[3]

Born in Bucharest, he attended the city's Spiru Haret High School [ro].^[4] He then enrolled in the Technical University of Civil Engineering, graduating in 1960. During that time, he participated in the Bucharest student movement of 1956; arrested and interrogated by the Securitate, he was released a year later. Subsequently, he studied film directing at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC), from where he graduated in 1968. He made his debut two years later with the movie Too Little for Such a Big War [ro].^[5]

Gabrea died in Bucharest in 2017, at age 79, and was buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery.^[6]

Selected filmography

Too Little for Such a Big War [ro] (1970)
Bucharest Memories [ro] (1970)
Un august în flăcări [ro] (1973, TV film)
Beyond the Sands [ro] (1974)
Fear Not, Jacob! [de] (1981)
A Man Like E.V.A. [de] (1984)
Ein Unding der Liebe (1988, TV film)
The Secret of the Ice Cave (1989)
Rosenemil [de] (1993)
Noro [ro] (2002)
The Beheaded Rooster [de] (2007)
Gruber's Journey (2008)
Red Gloves [ro] (2010)
Trei zile până la Crăciun [ro] (2012)
A Love Story, Lindenfeld [ro] (2014)

References

^ "Regizorul Radu Gabrea a murit" (in Romanian). Agerpres.
^ "Radu Gabrea". cinemagia. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
^ "Légère supériorité des films des pays socialistes au Festival de Locarno". Le Monde. 2 October 1970. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ Nancu, Dima (20 June 2022). "Astăzi regizorul și scenaristul Radu Bartolomeu Gabrea ar fi împlinit 85 de ani". Ziua de Constanța (in Romanian). Retrieved 30 August 2024.
^ Azap, Ioan-Pavel. ""Cazul" Radu Gabrea". istoriafilmului.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 30 August 2024.
^ "Radu Gabrea va fi înmormântat la Cimitirul Bellu din Bucureşti" (in Romanian). Radio România Actualități. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2024.