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Dan Nuțu
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Dan Nuțu
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1944-03-17,
Gender
Male
Biography
Dan Nuțu is a Romanian stage and film actor and producer, also known for his involvement in documentary filmmaking and film education. A graduate of the Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in 1966, Nuțu began his career at the Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest. He rose to prominence in cinema with his role in Sunday at Six (Duminică la ora 6, 1965), the debut feature of director Lucian Pintilie, where he played a young communist underground activist. Throughout the late 1960s, he became emblematic of a new type of screen presence in Romanian cinema—intense, rebellious, and emotionally vulnerable. Film critic Tudor Caranfil famously described him as “the tough-yet-vulnerable face of 1960s Romanian cinema.” He went on to appear in notable films such as Meanders (*Meandre*, 1967) and The Mornings of a Sensible Boy (*Diminețile unui băiat cuminte*, 1967), consolidating his image as a nonconformist youth figure during a transformative period in Romanian filmmaking. In 1979, Nuțu left Romania and settled in the United States, where he worked as a taxi driver while remaining loosely connected to the film and theater world, mostly in minor or background roles. After the fall of communism, he gradually reconnected with the Romanian film industry. Beginning in 2005, he became involved in the **Aristoteles Workshop**, an international documentary filmmaking program supported by ARTE and TVR, mentoring and supporting new generations of documentary filmmakers. Today, Dan Nuțu remains a cult figure of the Romanian New Wave’s precursor generation—an actor whose brief but striking 1960s film career left a lasting imprint on Romanian cinema history.

Filmography

7.1

Man and Dog
2022-01-28

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The Hope
1979-01-01

6.5

Meanders
1966-01-01

The Hundred Lei Bill

5.9

The Hundred Lei Bill
1973-11-05

The Mornings of a Sensible Youth

6.5

The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
1967-01-16

6.2

Working Girls
1987-02-27

6.4

Sunday at Six
1965-03-16

7.2

Astray
1978-01-01

Beyond the Sands

6.8

Beyond the Sands
1974-02-18

The Blue Gates of the City

7.3

The Blue Gates of the City
1974-03-25

7.2

Bariera
1972-12-11

Melodii, melodii

8.4

Melodii, melodii
1978-07-23

Steps in the Sky

7.4

Steps in the Sky
1977-01-01

6.2

Puzzle
2013-05-24

8

A Summer Tale
1976-10-25

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

8.5

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
1980-04-14

Farewell, Dear Nela!

5.4

Farewell, Dear Nela!
1972-06-30

Then the Legend was Born

6.3

Then the Legend was Born
1969-02-24

Postcards with Wildflowers

8.2

Postcards with Wildflowers
1975-06-24

7.2

Ora zero
1979-01-01

Shootings Under the Moonlight

7.5

Shootings Under the Moonlight
1977-12-12

5.4

The Siege
1971-08-21

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!

8

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
1982-06-25

Too Little for Such a Big War

8

Too Little for Such a Big War
1970-02-03

6.5

Sick Animals
1970-01-01