The Independent - London, December 14th, 2007
Star of 'The Death of Mr Lazarescu'
No one outside Romania was aware of Ion Fiscuteanu's superb acting skills until 2005, the year Cristi Puiu's film The Death of Mr Lazarescu was shown at the festival in Cannes, where it won the Prix d'un Certain Regard. Fiscuteanu's astonishing performance won him awards at the Copenhagen and Transylvania film festivals, the last especially apt since Fiscuteanu gives the doomed Mr Lazarescu a distinct Transylvanian accent.
Fiscuteanu was born in Bistrita in northern Transylvania. He studied acting in Bucharest and worked regularly in the theatre from the 1...
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