The Paper's reporter Cheng Xiaojun
On July 4, local time, the famous Romanian actress Luminița Gheorghiu died of cancer at the age of 71.
Luminica Gheorgiu
Born in Bucharest on 1 September 1949, Luminica Gaiorgiu studied under Romanian theatre performance master Ion Cojar. The latter was the pioneer of Romanian Methodist acting, and during his teaching at the Romanian National University of Drama and Film, he single-handedly produced a large number of new actors, including Gaiorgiu.
After graduating from school in 1972, Georgiu was first active on the theatrical stage, and it was not until the late 1980s that she began to dabble in film and television works frequently, including in the roles of Eastern European female beggars in austrian director Michael Haneke's Paris Ukiyo-e. However, the work that really earned her international reputation was the Romanian director Cristi Puyou's "No Medical Reliability", released in 2005. In this masterpiece of the New Wave of Romanian cinema, she plays a kind female nurse who accompanies the sick elderly living alone all the way to seek hope for life.
Stills from "No Doctor Reliable"
In the years since, Georgiu has appeared in a number of Romanian New Wave directors' masterpieces, including Corneliu Bolan Boyu's 12:08 O'Clock East of Bucharest, Christian Mongi's "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" and "Beyond the Mountains", Horachu Möllerele's "The Silent Wedding", Puyou's "Breaking Dawn", etc. Although there are not many scenes and different types of roles, they really do what they do.
Stills from "Child Pose"
In 2013, Gaorgiu played a doting mother in "Child Pose" directed by Karin Pete Netzer, who tried everything to help her son get rid of the crime of car accident. The film won the Berlin Golden Bear, and Luminica Gaiorgiu was nominated for Best Actress at the 26th European Film Awards for this performance.
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