Alexandru Tatos
- Director, Screenwriter, Actor
- Born: 09.03.1937 in Bucureşti
- Died: 31.01.1990 in Bucureşti
Graduate of the „I.L.Caragiale” Theatre and Cinema Institute (class of 1970, Prof. Ion Olteanu), majoring in theatre directing. After graduation, he got two job offers as theatre director: one in Timișoara and one at the National TV Station. Neither of them came through, and he worked all his life as freelancer, first with various theatre companies in Bucharest and all over the country, then in cinema.
Trivia
- The film Secvențe (Sequences) ranks 5th in the ”Top 10 Best Romanian Movies of All Time”, published in 2008 and ranked by 40 film reviewers.
- In 1965, encouraged by his friend, Dan Piţa, he took the admission exam at the Theatre and Cinema Institute. He was admitted to the Theatre Directing Section (class of Prof. Ion Olteanu), which he graduated in 1970.
- He made his debut as theatre director in 1970 with the play „Zalmoxis”, at the Sibiu Theatre
- In 1974, together with Dan Piţa, he made the first 6 episodes of the TV series Un august în flăcări (Burning August).
- Mere roşii (Red Apples) was his first fiction feature for the big screen.
- He was married three times to: Marina (), Anca Ionescu (1981-???) and Liana Molnar (1986 – until he passed away).
- The bust of Tatos, sculpted by Grigore Minea, has been displayed since 2003 in the square next to Salcâmilor Street, where the director lived all his life.
- In 1994 the Albatros Publishing House printed the posthumous volume “Diary Pages”, published by Liana Molnar-Tatos, the filmmaker`s wife. In 2010, his diary was published again by the Nemira Publishing House - Cinetipar.
- The 2014 edition of the MECEF Festival scheduled the screening of more of his films – “Portrait – Alexandru Tatos”. His wife, Liana Tatos, attended the event.
- Website alexandrutatos.ro
Alexandru Tatos about...
...himself as an actor: „The secret of art and artists is to be able to catch and assign to an apparently trivial fact the potencies and the generalising significances it involves.”
...being a filmmaker: „An artistic career is like a marathon run that ends when the life of the artist ends.”
...professionalism: „A movie is not only about professionalism. If a film does not have that particular, unique note, and if the characters and the story do not break the patterns becoming totally distinctive (and at the same time generally human), everything is in vain. Professionalism is something inherently mandatory, like brushing your teeth.”
