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Ilarion Ciobanu


  • Actor, Director
  • Born: 28.10.1931 in Ciucur (Tighina County, Republic of Moldova)
  • Died: 07.09.2008 in Bucharest

“I spent my childhood in Constanta, on the seashore, I was a troubled teenager, plenty of sores, I lived free as a bird – the port is a big and generous parent who feeds all its birds.
Aged 12  I was employed as a shop boy and thereafter followed a long caravan of trades: porter, hoe laborer, tractor driver, miner, digger, carpenter, driver, sailor, fisherman etc. up till 1958 when I passed the exam at the ”I. L. Caragiale” Institute for Theatre and Film”. Which he does not graduate as he prefers to accept the part of Mitru Mot from the classic Setea/The Thirst by Mircea Dragan, for which he is awarded Best Actor Award at the Mamaia Film Festival, his first prize ever. He joins the team of the “ L.S.Bulandra” Theatre, first as an electrician then as an ensemble actor. He quickly and forever divorced theatre, only to marry film for life, even if their meeting was a happening. ”I was several times a peasant, I was a mason, a fisherman, an engineer, a builder, a driver, an outlaw, a collective farm chief, site master, again a fisherman, I was even an ancestor” (Ilarion Ciobanu).
“Ilarion Ciobanu is a character per se, who moves from one pic to another, who walks his  human toughness, his stone faced punisher, carved without finesse, his menacing silences and his fist that hits without fail. Well yes, this is how we want him- those who watch films and those who make them- we want Ilarion Ciobanu in the part of Ilarion Ciobanu, we do not mind if on the credits the appears under some other name, we know for sure whom we are speaking about. “(Sanda Faur, Almanah Cinema 1975)
“Seldom have I met a more steadfast character. Ilarie is a one piece of a man, a huge piece of stone. He does not play a part he only communicates some thoughts through  film, tells us something about his life. He does not pretend to be a performer, he does not like to make efforts for an acting composition. He cannot play people that he does not love. He measures everything according his real life behavior. Don’t even joke  asking him to perform something that he cannot do in real life. To lie, to hide, to cheat. Not even to forgive if he considers this or that to be unforgivable. That’s why he imposed himself  in Romanian cinema, beyond his appearance, a moral type that resembles him every single bit”.(Andrei Blaier – film director)
 

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Known for:

1977

1976

1973

1965

Festivals / Awards

  • 1966
 Mamaia The Time of the Snowstorms
The Uprising 		Best Actor
  • 1971
 ACIN The Siege
The Brothers 		Best Actor
  • 1973
 ACIN The Last Cartridge
The Conspiracy
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary 		Best Actor
  • 1984
 ACIN Împliniri triste Honorary Diploma
  • 2016
 UCIN Academic Prize In Memoriam

Filmography

Actor

002)

Părintele Petrian

2002

995)

1995

993)

Fane

1993

988)

Avram Iuga

1988

987)

Ioana's father

1987

986)

Octavian Borcea

1986

985)

Sg. Oancea

1985

984)

Barbu

1984

984)

Moş Culai

1984

984)

Tudor

1984

981)

Dăneţ

1981

980)

Traian Brad

1980

980)

Vârlan

1980

979)

Col. Cristescu

1979

979)

Vasile Mutu

1979

979)

Traian Brad

1979

978)

Tudose Volintiru

1978

978)

Teodosie Lazăr

1978

978)

Hăisan

1978

978)

Un general

1978

977)

Mr. Moise Grozea

1977

977)

Traian Brad

1977

978)

Gherasim

1976

975)

Dan Cernega

1975

975)

Fripp

1975

974)

Vasile

1974

973)

Mihai Roman

1973

973)

Mihai Roman

1973

972)

Mihai Roman

1973

973)

Mihai Roman

1973

972)

Mihai Roman

1972

971)

Drăgan

1971

971)

1971

970)

Pintea

1970

970)

Stroe Buzescu

1970

970)

Ilarion

1970

969)

Pavel Costan

1969

969)

Ghindă

1969

968)

Nichifor Lipan

1969

968)

Gerula

1968

968)

Redea

1968

966)

Dăneţ

1966

966)

Pavel Pavel

1966

965)

Petre Petre

1965

964)

Gheorghe 2

1964

962)

Dăneţ

1962

962)

Crăciun

1962

961)

Popescu

1961

960)

Mitru Moţ

1960

Director

Portretul mamei (scurtmetraj documentar)

1987

Împliniri triste (scurtmetraj documentar)

1984

După zece ani (scurtmetraj documentar)

1983

Screenwriter

The Trident Doesn’t Answer

1980