Emil Loteanu
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Emil Loteanu, Soviet-era Moldovan filmmaker
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Emil Vladimirovich Loteanu November 6, 1936 Clocuşna, Bessarabia, Romania |
| Died | 18 March 2003 (aged 66) Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter, poet |
| Years active | 1959–1997 |
| Spouse(s) | Galina Belyayeva |
Emil Loteanu (November 6, 1936 – April 18, 2003) was a Soviet film director born in Clocuşna, Moldova(then Romania). He moved to Moscow in his early life. His best known films are Lăutarii, Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven, A Hunting Accident and Anna Pavlova.
Emil Vladimirovich Loteanu was born on November 6, 1936 in the Bessarabian village Clocuşna (now Ocniţa District Moldova). The Lotyanu ancestry has Ukrainian origin, the original name was Lototskii.
His paternal ancestors were from Bukovina. After the annexation of Bessarabia to the Soviet Union, they moved to Bucharest. After the death of his father and losing contact with his mother, who had moved to Romania, he lived his early life on the streets, sleeping in warehouses and hostels. Between 1953 and 1955, he studied at the actor's faculty of the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1962, he graduated from VGIK (workshop of Grigori Roshal and Y. Genik).
Between 1952 and 1954, he worked as an actor at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. From 1962 to 1973 he worked as a director at the studio Moldova-Film where he made his narrative feature film debut with the heroic and revolutionary film Wait for us at dawn (1963). In 1966, Emil Loteanu directed a motion picture about the Moldavian shepherds titled Red Meadows. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since the year 1968. In his cinematic poem Lăutarii (1971) the director depicted the life of folk musicians. The film's music was scored by Eugene Doga and was the beginning for their long collaboration. The film won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
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