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Emil Botta


  • Actor
  • Born: 17.09.1911 in Adjud (Vrancea)
  • Died: 24.07.1977 in Bucharest

Graduate of the Dramatic Art Conservatory in Bucharest (class of 1932). Was an actor of the National Theatre in Bucharest.
 “When Emil Botta makes his appearance on screen the spectator experiences, for a few moments, a state of trance: the screen disappears, distances are annihilated, the feeling of a show and the show convention  are dispelled and the spectator remains alone facing this High Priest officiating a strange ritual. This hypnotic force, this conjuration power that Botta emanates as soon as he enters the stage or the screen frame, comes from faith. From the faith with which Emil Botta expresses any gesture of art , from the concentration with which he lives every part he’s playing, from that inner tension, incandescent, that you feel is ready to explode any minute now. Emil Botta keeps this forever burning fire under control, deep inside his torment, with all the strength he’s capable of and he seems to enjoy with voluptuousness this excruciating game of werewolves. And he won’t tell a thing , for fear to contaminate us with his pain. And then, on his ston like face, two deep lines  dig, in his  clear eyes nests, as if it were its natural place, an icy sorrow and Botta brings in his noble silence” (Sanda Faur, Almanah Cinema 1970)
 

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Known for:

1969

1966

1965

1964

Festivals / Awards

Filmography

Actor

976)

Vasilică

1976

975)

Ocolescu

1975

973)

Prince Ipsilanti

1973

970)

Paveliu

1969

968)

The Big Priest

1968

967)

Barbu

1967

Beatrice

1966

966)

Professor

1966

966)

The Big Priest

1966

965)

Anton The Fool

1965

965)

The Wizzard

1965

965)

Deliu

1965

964)

Cervenko

1964

963)

Leonardo da Vinci

1963

961)

Somarhoţ

1961

961)

Doctor Pantazi

1961

961)

Ştefan Viforeanu

1961

958)

General

1958

957)

Mişu Vorvoreanu

1957

939)

Saşa Golfinu

1939