In the 1970s, Pintle was forced into exile in the West because of his implicit criticism and political appeals to the Romanian authorities.
Lucien Pintley
According to foreign media reports, the famous Romanian film master Lucien Pintle died in Bucharest at the age of 84.
Lucien Pintley was a former stage director, and in 1968 he made the famous film Reconstruction, which was banned for its implicit criticism and political demands of the Romanian authorities, and Pintley was forced into exile in the West, where few works appeared in the following two decades. The film was later considered the most important work in the history of Romanian cinema.
At the end of the 1980s, Lucien Pintle returned to Romania and served in the Ministry of Culture.
With his help, a group of young Romanian directors began their artistic careers, a wave that came to be known as the "New Wave of Romanian Directors", including Cristi Puyou ("House of the Snowy Mountains") and Christian Mongi ("Graduation Examination"), who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival for "Three Weeks and Two Days in April", and Lucian Pintley, also known as the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave.
In addition to helping young directors, Pintley also resumed film shooting in the 1990s, and his works were repeatedly shortlisted for the Cannes International Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival, and representative works of this period include "Nicky and Flo", "Oak Tree", "The Afternoon of the Torturer" and so on.