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Igor Cobileanski


  • Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer
  • Born: 24.02.1974 in Comrat (Moldova)

Igor Cobileanski was born in Comrat, a small Moldavian town with some tens of thousands inhabitants, the capital town of the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia, situated in the South of the Republic of Moldavia, near the Ukrainian border. He could have studied in Moscow, at the renowned VGHIK school of cinema where in the 50ies or 60ies many of the Romanian filmakers were sent to study. Instead he preferred to come to Bucharest , at the “I L Caragiale’ Academy for Theatre and Film . He boasts that he was the youngest student at that time (only 17) amongst his colleagues.After graduating , in 1995, he went back to Kishinev, worked in television and made docus and short fiction films.He made his debut in long feature with Tache thus making himself wellknown so that in 2004 he was chosen as  a candidate for the presidency of the Moldavian Filmmakers Union..The Unsaved is his second feature film.


Trivia

  • At 14 he makes his debut as an actor in the pic The Pain / Durerea, directed by David Natvlisvili, based on  a screenplay by Emil Loteanu.
  • A good friend of Romanian film director Thomas Ciulei who produces his short When the Light Goes Out / Când se stinge lumina.
  • His fetish actor is  Sergiu Voloc.