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Liviu Ciulei, 88; directed film and theater in Romania, Minnesota

Liviu Ciulei directed a play rehearsal at the Juilliard School in 1977. He made more than 20 movies as an actor or director. Liviu Ciulei directed a play rehearsal at the Juilliard School in 1977. He made more than 20 movies as an actor or director. (bob glass/new york times)
By Alina Wolfe Murray
Associated Press / October 29, 2011

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Liviu Ciulei, a Romanian film and theater director whose career spanned 50 years and included a top award at the Cannes Film Festival, has died. He was 88. Ciulei - who also served as the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and taught at universities in New York - died on Monday night at a hospital in Munich. “An era has died! A genius had died!’’ said Caramitru, who heads Romania’s UNITER theater union. “Without Liviu Ciulei, there would be no Romanian theater.’’

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