As director and scenario writer,
Cleopatra Lorintiu realized many documentaries in the Cinema
Direction of the TVR Romanian National Television.
Hobita - a state of heart - documentary on the sculptor Constantin Brancusi.
Movie about the childhood of the great Romanian sculptor.
A documentary about the place where Constantin Brancusi was born, a village of
craftsmen and tailors of wood. In his birth village, Hobita, his nephew
reconstitute today , the childhood of Brancusi :a boy who was going to be
a small rebel, impassioned freedom, prisoner of imagination, form and though. Duration: 40 minutes, image Marian Stanciu 2002.
Ştefan Augustin Doinaş - (1922-2002)Excellence in
the culture.Documentary
Stefan
Augustin Doinas (1922-2002) was one of the major poets of the Romanian
literature of the twentieth century. Upon his literary beginning in 1939 for
which he received The Award Lovinescu until prices for Excellence in culture,
received in 1999 the poet, recognized as excellent translator of poetry
Universal took a course full of events , Which he speaks in a very sincere in
this film.
The documentary includes the last interview with the poet, images of his village
and his prodigious literary career. 1999. Duration 55 minutes image Liviu Pojoni.
This
documentary recived
The Price of the Association of
the Professionals of the Television of Romania(APTR) for the best cultural documentary of
the year 2000.
The Museum “George Enesco” of the Cantacuzino Palace.
Former residence of Grigore Cantacuzino, (former prime minister of Romania who,
at the beginning of the 1900s, was considered the richest man in Romania. Built
in 1900 in the French Baroque style with Rococo elements by architect
I.D.Berindei. The wife of George Enesco, Maruca Cantacuzino (the daughter-in-low
of G.G.Cantacuzino in her first marriage), inherited the palace. In the garden,
behind the main palace is the smaller town house which Enesco preferred to use
as his home.
Enesco and his wife left Romania after the second war in the moment of the
arrival of bolshevism dictator.
The palace is now home to the Museum of the Romanian Music and headquarters
Romania's Association of Musicians.
Duration: 14 minutes image Vlad Micu. Price for film of television to
the International ECO Festival for documentaries Targoviste, 2001.
Sequences of the life of an artist Ion Sălişteanu.
Documentary ."As long as there is art, the space between people is still full of
substance and meaning," said the painter Ion Salisteanu (born 1929), plastic
artist, honorary president of the Union of Plastic Artists in Romania Duration 54 minutes, image Ioan Cristodulo, 2001. see page Salisteanu
Freedom of the mind Documentary on the poetry of Odysseas Elytis. Odysseas Elytis expresses in his
works the magical Greece, silent depository of history, of inconsistencies and
of disappointment, of enthusiasm and of chimeras. The mythical realm allows
Elytis to somehow identify himself with the poetic mode of life. duration: 18 minutes image :Aristica Popa 2001.
see page Elytis
Documentaries realized in
free lance (1992-1994)
The Village Museum of Bucharest.
The Village Museum, lying on the Herastrau Lake Shore in
Bucharest, is one of the biggest and the oldest outdoors museum in Europe. The
visitors could see Its houses, pens, churches, water and wind mills, cloth
mills, of great historic and artistic value . The objects inside the households
- carpets, pottery, rugs, icons, furniture - point to the originality of the
folk creation, the sensibility and care for the beauty of the rural people. Documentary carried out for Chanel 32 Chicago Illinois , USA for the TV „Suflet
românesc”.(Romanian Soul) Duration: 12 minutes image Tiberiu Mocanu.
Bucharest today. Documentary carried out for Chanel 32 Chicago
Illinois the USA for the emission TV "Suflet românesc". (Romanian
Soul) Duration: 12 minutes image Tiberiu Mocanu.
Paradoxical Chicago Documentary carried out for Chanel 32 Chicago
Illinois the USA for the emission TV "Suflet românesc". Duration: 12 minutes Repeated by Romanian television Image Cleopatra Lorintiu, editor Ene Arşinel.
Chicago with the two faces. documentary carried out for Chanel 32 Chicago
Illinois the USA for the broadcast "Suflet românesc". Duration: 12 minutes Romanian
Broadcast Television Image Cléopatra Lorintiu, editor Ene Arşinel.
The "Dealu Monastery" from Romania Documentary carried out for Chanel 32 Chicago
Illinois the USA for the emission TV „Suflet românesc”. Broadcast Romanian television Documentary broadcast in the emission" Pro
Patria" (TVR1). Duration: 12 minutes Image Ene Arşinel 1993.
Documentaries realized for Romanian Television 1994-2002
Test of color. Documentary realized in Chicago, Illinois the USA
on the young painter Leo Ionita. Duration: 30 minutes 1994.
A man of the heights and the adventure of Gurjahimal
(Hymalaya).
Documentary on the inventor of medicine "INSUVEG." Born in
Transylvania in 1925, dr.Ovidiu Bojor is an important botanist, pharmacist and
herbal Romanian, author of dozens of books on flora, medicinal herbs and their
uses in pharmacology.
Known as a maverick spirit and full of imagination, Ovidiu Bojor, is the author
of several patents in pharmacology including Insuveg, he also participated in
expeditions in the Himalaya mountains in search of the unknown and herbs caring.
He worked 20 years for evidence of the flora of Romania. Duration: 24 minutes image Aristica Popa 1994.
Breeze of the memory. Documentary on the life of Florentina Mosora,
academician chief of the Chair of Oceanography of the University
of Liege, Belgium and interview with
dr.Stefan Stan, his husband from Liege
Paradoxically, with a degree in physics and another in biology, Florentina
Mosora was during the'60s Hope cinema in Romania! Some classic films prove it.…
(Love to zero degrees in 1965 or Post remaining in 1961But when leaving Romania, it
has become th in Belgium a scientist, Academician, dean of the same flesh of
Oceanography at the University of Liege. Author of the book "Biomechanical Transport Processes"
published in 1991, Florentina Mosora took a course out of the ordinary.
Extirpated the fifties, it is mentioned in our film by her husband Dr. Stefan
Stan and by Professor Jean Nihouil the University of Liege. Duration: 28 minutes image Romeo Stancu 1996.
The need of memories - a dialogue with Princess Alexandra Caragea
Daughter of Prince Caradgea Aristide (1861-1955) and Matilda
Greceanu, Alexandra Caragea (called Tanda) was a princess atypical and had a
turbulent life.
During our dialogue, to tour fabulous collections of butterflies, made by his
father and sheltered by the Museum of Natural Sciences "Grigore Antipa" of
Bucharest, Princess Alexandra Cargea (1920-1997) raised
his memories of World War II .The personality of his
father, renowned entomology, a lawyer and member of the Romanian Academy, as
well as other personalities of the time. Both interviews were made in November
1995 at Baile Herculane and 1996 in Bucharest. Her mind
was strong, her humor intact and his comments full
of accuracy. Duration: 28 minutes, image Emil Lungu 1995.
Pages of the catalogue of the ships. Documentary on life of
the poet Gheorghe Tomozei.(1936-1997)important
Romanian poet and writer.His first book of poems,The Blue Bird appeared in 1957,
others volumes: Romantic Machineries,Tanit,Ninive,Altair,
At the Snow's Light.He published more 60 books during his life .A
maker of dreaming paradises,Tomozei revives the transparency of the verb,of the
lighting sparked by the natural syntax of the poetic self.Tradytional in myth
and at the same time modern in the most subtle connotations of language,his
verse is a witch's of the Byzantine spirit and the ancient Carpathien ballads. A
movie about his life, his books with inedits footages.Nichita Stanesc, his great
friend , wrote about him:"This great poet ..has in his forties attained,in my
opinion,a peak of creativity in his so personal, yet at the same time so
impresonal style." Duration: 60 minutes 1997. See Page Tomozei
Exercises of friendship.
Documentary realized in Liege, Belgium. Romanians artists and an
exhibition in Liege at Marielle Gallery . with the participation of
Aurel Patrascu,Cati Orbulescu,Cristina Iliescu Calinesti) Duration: 26 minutes image Romeo Stancu 1996.
The Monasteries Putna and Suceviţa from Bucovine. (Documentary).
Putna monastery is one of the most important cultural, religious
centers in medieval Moldova. Built and dedicated during the time of Prince
Stephen the Great , place to pilgrimage famous for the icons and the tombstones,
beautiful example of Moldavian art in the XV century. Duration: 15 minutes Image Emil Lungu 1997.
The charm of Braila. Documentary about this town, near Danube
river. Duration: 5 minutes Imagine Emil Lungu 1996.
Mythological dust. Documentary portrait of the academician RomulusVulcănescu. Interview granted in 1997.Extract from last interview given by
Academician Romulus Vulcanescu, (1912-1999) ethnologist, anthropologist,
historian of religions, the author of books: "Romanian Mythology," "The masks
popular", "The column of Heaven") . Academician liked paradoxes, his answers
were brief and clear, he liked to recall the major events of life, his travels
in the United States, his correspondence with Mircea Eliade. Ideas on "mythology
and religion".
The
heritage of the Rosetti family. Documentary, invited the architect Gheorghe Rosetti,
sun of the academician Alexandru Rosetti.
It's not easy being the son of Alexandre Rosetti (1895-1990),
patriarch of the Romanian culture, linguist, renowned academician, who marked
his work and his encyclopedic mind, the contemporary Romanian culture. His son,
George Rosetti architect who lives in Paris, evokes (in a dialogue that the
filming was done in the family home of Bucharest), memories of childhood and
youth, family history and Rosetti that his own life, full of
events and friendships Duration: 28minutes Image Tiberiu Mocanu 1996
The Palace of Prince Brancoveanu from
Mogosoaia. Documentary artistic.The name of
Prince Constantin Brancoveanu is always associated with the cultural renewal of
Wallachia at the end of the seventeenth century. The documentary evokes the
personality of the prince Brancoveanu and describes the beauty of Mogosoaia
Palace (built between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century).
The memories of Antonio del Chiaro, the secretary Venetian prince, Vlach are
interpreted in the film by actor George Motoi. They express the dramatic recent
months in the life of the prince before his execution by the Turkish and all his
son, continued refusal to renounce the Orthodox religion and accept the
Mohammedan religion Duration: 25 minutes ImageVlad Micu 1999.
Colors of the Maghreb (I) Documentary on Morocco.
Interviewes with Abdelaziz Kossir, peinters and marocain artists. Image Cleopatra Lorintiu Duration: 36 minutes 1996.
Colors of the Maghreb (II)The
Museum Belghazi was the realization of a dream. That of a
family of artists embroiderers of Fez, direct descendants of lions Jebel Zarhoun;
former undisputed masters in the Arab Islamic art. A family that did not stopped
feeding a passion for art objects, preserved for centuries: For a long
methodical work of search and recovery curator and founder of the museum
Abdelilah Belghazi, tells how in the films he brought together an impressive
collection of ancient coins belonging to the Moroccan traditional arts.(1996)
Camera - pen. Documentary in the United States. Image, scenario : Cleopatra Lorinţiu.
(1995-1997)
A photograph of the heart. Portrait of the photographer Eddy
Novarro, Brazil, recognized for the value of his portraits of the big
personalities of the whole world. (Childhood in Romania, he arrives in
Rio, in 1946)
In fifty years of career , Eddy Novarro photographed faces of about six
hundred artists of his time, without counting the sovereigns, the statesmen and
the billionaires of the finance or the industry. Can being it is the one of
Picasso who will remain " brand" Novarro.
Shooting in the studios of the Romanian Television, in Bucharest.
Image: Liviu Şurcă 1996.
An exceptional woman Documentary in Turin (Italy
) with LiviaNitamanager of the
Bonansea Company Image Liviu Şurca , 2000.
Ezio Gribaudo..Portrait Ezio
Gribaudo (Italian artist born in Turin in 1929 and he lives forever.
Artist plastic and editor, Gribaudo was formed as complex personality with the
help of major meetings with Picasso (in 1951 in Vallauris) Moore, Chagall, Dali,
De Chirico, Siqueiros, decisive encounter for his work and his life.
He received three international awards: in 1965 the Quadriennale in Rome in 1966
at the Venice Biennale and Sao Paolo in 1967 for his graphic works.
His work, his solo exhibitions, his confessions done at Turin, in his studio in
2000.
Confession and interview made in 2000 Documentary - Torino, Italy. Duration: 10 minutes Image Liviu Surca.
In Hofburg in company of the conductor Gert Hofbauer. (Musician and conductor, interpreter, Gert Hofbauer has become an
image for artistic management. He directs the orchestra Palace Hoffburg, famous
for its concerts Viennese music, much appreciated by the public foreigner who
visit Austria and, at the same time he is the artistic manag er this orchestra. Documentary in Vienna Duration: 15 minutes image Emil Lungu.
And as feel a cristal.Marina
Krilovici.
Romanian interpreter original opera, Marina Krilovici won its success on the
international scene. She currently lives in Athens (Greece), or
indeed the documentary is turned. In his roles of operas by Puccini and
Massenet, Marina Krilovici put his talent, his unique voice and especially its
force of interpretation. It is not easy to evoke a career as an artist but it
did for us and for the Romanian public. In front of the mirror on its terrace
surrounded by eucalyptus, among its costumes and its memories, photo albums and
posters during the summer of 1995 it was all a portrait of the artist with
multiple facets. It was a trip to the world stage, with the memory of emotion
capable of artistic Duration: 28 minutes Image Aristica Popa 1995.
The violonist and her violon
Documentary on the violinist Lucia Triţă.Romanian
violonist,she went on to become the first concert-master in the Radio
National Orchestra of Romania until 2002.She has
performed as a soloist in tours in Europe ( Spain, Germany, Greece, Romania,
Italy) Marocco, Great Britain, with the conductors: E.G. Asensio, E. Ferraris,
H. Andreescu,Ilarion Galati,Paul Popescu, P. Sbarcea, C. Marin.Coprincipal
in the Orchestra Sinfonica de Galicia, Spain.
Duration: 26 minutes 1996.
Morocco, cultural interference. Documentary. Duration: 36 minutes 1997.
A Romanian house in Chiticaz. Documentary in Hungary. Image Aurel Aldea, 1995.
The taste of the
life. Mariana Braescu writer and journalist,is the
founder of the publishing conglomerate Casa Lux (who) publishes magazines
for decoration and the house, very popular in Romania)
She speaks on this subject in a documentary shot near
Bucharest and also in her house as well as on
its journalistic route and playwright. 30min, 1997
On the thread of the memory. To remember the composer Nicolae Bretan.(1887-1968) (The daughter of composer Nicolae Bretan, Edith Bretan le Bovit who
lives in the United States has decided to do its duty to remember and we gave an
interview on the subject of the life of his father, Transylvanian composer
fron tahe town of Nasaud (1887
- 1968) Duration: 20 minutes 1997. see
page Bretan
Hismiraculous harp Documentary about the musician Ion Ivan Roncea,
1996.
Duration 28 minutes.
The proof of image. Documentary on the theather director Geirun Tino,
Vien. (He began in Romania in a theatre province, Bacau where he
signed his first plays as a director. This is the artistic climate of Vienna who
as drawn and who have also imposed.
Duration: 28 minutes ,1995.
image Emil Lungu
A way for the life. Documentaries on the painter
Gh.Adoc and his wife, Gabriela Manole Adoc (1926-2002), sculptor.
Confessions,
souvenirs, projects at the Exposition retrospective Gabriela Manole Adoc in the
halls of the Palace of Parliament 1997
.Last TV interview of the artist. Duration: 24 minutes.
See page Adoc
The silence of the colors. Founded in 1992 and the memorial Dimitrie Aurelia Ghiata
who is in Bucharest (14, rue Clunet) and reconstructs the path of a couple of
particularly popular artists: the painter Dimitrie Ghiata (1888-1972) and his
wife, Aurelia, artist decoration. Besides the two artists have donated several
of their works and the memorial is located in their former home. It is the art
critic Marina Preutu who by his dedication and passion has maintained
professional women of this house for years rather difficult. Image Mihai Preda. Duration: 24 minutes.
A
star among us. Documentary of the opera singer Mariana Nicolesco. Duration: 30 minutes 1995.
In the world of the queens of Gaetano
Donizzetti- movie about the carrer of Mariana
Nicolesco,
1997
Duration:50 minutes
Documentary, portrait of the sculptor, painter,
writer Ion Vlasiu(1908-1997)
The last interview of the artist, his artistic credo,
confessions about his long and important activity like artist and writer. The
interview was realized in 1996. In the last
dialogues with the sculptor Ion Vlasiu (1908-1997),realized
by Cleopatra Lorintiu ,he was full of wisdom and
a philosophy that is the prerogative of age and experience. It is in this movie
nostalgia, mystery and sometimes bitter humor. After a lifetime of hard work,
Vlasiu seemed a patriarch of stone and marble in his mountain area in the heart
of Transylvania or a philosopher in his workshop in Bucharest, Pangratti Street.
.
Sculptor, painter and writer, Ion Vlasiu marked the Romanian culture by its
light and its way of life. His works are in museums and collections, evidence of
its genuine talent, permeated by the Carpathian atmosphere in which he created
and a Romanian national spirit that reminds us of the old master. Duration: 30 minutes
Joy in the life.
(Joie de vivre. )
His drawings its full of joy and energy, as the artist herself in
a career of almost 60 years Octavia Taralunga (born 19 "Vaidei, Hunedoara
county) Fine Arts degree in 1955 in the class of Jules Perahim. She has made
thousands of drawings for the book, particularly for children but also
watercolors, graphics in which it gave her great talent of designer, his humor
and his philosophy of life. Documentary portrait of the illustrator OctaviaŢarălungă. Duration: 24 minutes.
For Mister the professor, our love.
Portrait of the writer and
professor Tudor Opris (poet, writer, author of hundreds of books on popular
science, famous for his activity in the field of literary Cenacles for children
and youth, regarded as the spiritual mentor of many generations Romanian writers)
1997 Duration: 24 minutes.
These wonderful children and their musical
instruments. Documentary about Musical Youths,
Romania (president Luigi Gageos) In two episodes. Duration: 30 minutes each one.
Documentary in the memory of
Manole Filitti,
with the participation of the writer Alexandru Paleologu
and Georgeta Penelea Filitti, historian, his
wife.
The documentary film about Manole Filitti begins
with an evocation makes by himself in 1997, at the time of evening dedicated to
the story of one of the most beautiful Palaces of Bucharest, nicknamed
Cantacuzino Palace ": The house to the lions ", which shelters nowadays the
Museum " George Enesco ". Come from a family which was in cousinhood with
princes valaques, shows of animated moments of the Rumanian history,
distinguished and aristocrat , delicate and full of humor, Manole Filitti knew
how to survive during period which was not favorable in no way to the
evocation of past! His glance is serene and his memories full of nuances.
Duration: 30 minutes 2001.
A beautiful aria Documentary in Vienna with opera singer Theodor Ciurdea Coresi.
with
the participation of Luminita Nielsen. Duration: 30 minutes Image Emil Lungu 1995
The Paradoxes of Nicolae Iliescu. or The
world of the honey
Documentary of the inventor of Apilarnil”,
Nicolae V. Ilieşiu.(the last interview of
the inventor , about his life and his experiences, like journalist and bees
keper. 1997) The result of its research, which
lasted more than 40 years, is the product named "Apilarnil" important in
the apitherapie and the cure of the diseases.)
The bees, the hives, their hidden world, mysterious, attractive, have it
continues all its life. It was character of novel, this Mister come from Valley
from Somes to Bucharest, Mister which did such an amount of the good, which was
of a discretion of aristocrat and that left this world always, very discreetly.
Canadian Diary In two episodes :the Canadian writer Guy Pariseau
(Edmonton,Canada) and the Romanian ballerina Margareta Zirra,
his wife. Duration: 30minutes 2001.
Healing: The life of Professor DanGavriliu
the author of the transplantof esophagus
Renowned surgeon gastro enterology, Professor Dan Gavriliu was
one of the pioneers of digestive surgery in Romania. Born in Braila in 1915,
graduated in medicine in 1941, physician during World War II on the forehead,
head of clinical, university professor, author of the first replacement of
esophagus, Professor Dan Gavriliu was always a person of great discretion . In
this documentary produced in his home and at the University Hospital of
Bucharest, with the support of his wife, Dr. Mihaela OPRIS Gavriliu, he
remembers key moments of his life. In 1976 he was invited to the Annual Congress
of Surgery has been designated as "the best surgeon of the year." Founding
member of the International College of digestive surgery in 1971, he became
Visiting Professor Mayo "and gives lectures and demonstrations at Mayo Clinic
Rochester, New York, Pittsburgh and San Francisco ...
The
dust and the gold of the scene. Documentary on the history of the Romanian ballet
with the participation of Margareta Zirra, Gabriel Popescu and Ileana Iliescu.2002
Margareta Zirra, the former ballerina,
principal dancer of the musical Theater of operetta " Ion Dacian " of Bucharest
tells memories, golden pages of the history of the contemporary Romanian ballet.
In films them The dust and the gold of
the stage, her and her friends: the star of the ballet of opera Ileana Iliescu,
the dancer Bojidar Petrov and the music critic Mihai Canciovici discover the
story of the Romanian ballet, and evoke the personality of teachers Floria
Capsali, Oleg Danovski, AntonRomanovski, or important dancers
like GabrielPopescu, Irinel Liciu,Marinel Stefanescu. We discover ancient archives of entertainment, photos and posters,
their confessions are full of emotion as well as nostalgia for time when they
danced and were welcomed under the applauses of public already conquered one.
Duration: 47 minutes.
Pages of the life of a college - Spiru
Haret.2001 Documentary with the participation of Marcel
Petrisor (writer) and Adrian Pascu
(historian), Scurtu Nicolae, critic.The college Spiru Haret is
one of the most important school in Romania, during the last
century. Duration: 28 minutes 2001.
Lights of Islam - documentaries of Cleopatra Lorintiu
difused on the TVR Channel
( 2007-2009 )
.With the participation of M. Adel Murad, The Ambassador of
Iraq Republic to Romania , dr. George Grigore, Arab
Center of University of Bucarest , dr.Laura Sitaru, Bucharest University
"The aim of the principles of Islam as a religion of tolerance is that the
believer were upright, for his own good and the good of his fellow man.
Islam, as well as the other monotheistic religions, is a religion of wisdom,
tolerance and dialogue, not violence. "
DiffusedNovember 2007
Living with Islam
( documentary about Islam in Europe and
particularly in France in the broadcast SEMNE TVR ) CHEMS Eddine Hafiz from
The General Council of Muslims of France
Hichem ben Yaiche, politic analyst IRIS Paris Dr.Ronald Hatto, Sciences Politiques Paris
Radwan Kadhanoun, journaliste, Bucuresti
Sufism,poetry and mystical vocation, documentary about the poetry of Mawlana
Jalaluddin Rumi
The idea of mystic poetic of Jalaludin
Rumi is that the love is on the base of the whole Universe
with the participation of
S.E. Adel Murad, Ambassador of Irak Republic in Romania, S.E. Hamid Reza
Arshadi Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Iran in Romania, Dr. Luminita
Munteanu, University of Bucarest and Dr. Grigore George ,
Diffused
2008 for TVR1
Testimony Christian in Arabic writing in Bucharest
An Orthodox Church Holy Spiridon ( the old ) was built in the center of the City
of Bucharest , under the order of the Patriarche Silvestre d Antiochien during
the XVIIIth century.with the cooperation of Archibishop of Sevastia Theodosios
Atallah Hanna, (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem), the historian Dan
Toma Dulciu and the Syrian journalist Nabila Cuza.
Cleopatra Lorintiu's film, 24 min Diffused on January 17th, 2009 TVR1
A raid in the history of Turkish and Moslem tatares on the
territory of Dobrogea, their customs, their mosques. Shootings in the Mosque
Espahan Sultan, Medgidia, in the Mosque Hunkiar de Constanta and in the Mosque
Carol-Kral Casimi de Constanta.
With the cooperation of:M. Yusuf Murad, the
Leader of the Muslim Cult of Romania, the imam Osman Negeat, Leida Inan, Dan
Toma Dulciu, art critic and expert in the Islamic laws.
Diffused 9 May 2009, TVR1
"We are the mysterious Romania "remember
Artur Silvestri
with the participation of P.S.Vincentiu, Archi bishop of
Slobozia and Calarasi, Alexandru Stanciulescu Bardea, the writer Mariana Braescu
Silvestri,
