Stere Gulea

Stere Gulea born 2 August 1943 is a Romanian film director and screenwriter He was born in Mihail Kogălniceanu commune Constanța County in an Aromanian family that had fled from the Kaliakra region of Southern Dobruja during the 1940 population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania1 After graduating from the Mircea cel Bătrân High School in Constanța2 Gulea studied philology at the Pedagogical Institute of Constanța and then pursued his studies at the IL Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts IATC in Bucharest graduating in 1970 He made his film director debut that year with Apa ca un bivol negru ro The Water Like a Black Buffalo this documentary movie done in collaboration with his IATC colleagues Dan Pița and Mircea Veroiu record the catastrophic 1970 floods in Romania In the early 1970s he produced and directed a Romanian Television documentary based on Mateiu Caragiales life his first feature film was Iarba verde de acasă ro The Green Grass from Home 1978 based on a screenplay by Sorin Titel His 1995 movie State of Things was submitted by Romania for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film In 2019 he won the Gopo Award for best movie with Moromeții 2 ro5 This film is a sequel to The Moromete Family 1988 also directed by Gulea both based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda In 2018 Gulea was made honorary citizen of Talpa the commune in Teleorman County where both these movies were shot In 2000 thenPresident Emil Constantinescu awarded him the Order of the Star of Romania Commander rank