Biography
Stere Gulea (born 2 August 1943) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Mihail Kogălniceanu commune, Constanța County, in an Aromanian family that had fled from the Kaliakra region of Southern Dobruja during the 1940 population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania.[1] After graduating from the Mircea cel Bătrân High School in Constanța,[2] Gulea studied philology at the Pedagogical Institute of Constanța and then pursued his studies at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in Bucharest, graduating in 1970. He made his film director debut that year with Apa ca un bivol negru [ro] ("The Water Like a Black Buffalo"); this documentary movie, done in collaboration with his IATC colleagues, Dan Pița and Mircea Veroiu, record the catastrophic 1970 floods in Romania. In the early 1970s, he produced and directed a Romanian Television documentary based on Mateiu Caragiale's life; his first feature film was Iarba verde de acasă [ro] ("The Green Grass from Home", 1978), based on a screenplay by Sorin Titel. His 1995 movie, State of Things, was submitted by Romania for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. In 2019, he won the Gop…
Directed
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The Moromete Family (1987) — Director
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Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time (2018) — Director
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Weekend with My Mother (2009) — Director
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I'm an Old Communist Hag (2013) — Director
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Fox: Hunter (1993) — Director
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State of Things (1995) — Director
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The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son (2024) — Director
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The Green Grass of Home (1977) — Director
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Bear's Eye (1983) — Director
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The Carpathian Castle (1981) — Director
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Piata Universitatii - Romania (1991) — Director
