Horațiu Mălăele

HorațiuValentin Mălăele born 1 August 1952 is a Romanian actor cartoonist writer and theater and film director In this last capacity his is often associated with the Romanian New Wave Born in 1952 TârguJiu he had a public art exhibit in his final year of secondary school the first of over 30 as of 2016 Mălăele graduated in 1975 from the Institute of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest and first became a professional actor with the National Theater of Romania in Piatra Neamț He returned to Bucharest where he became a prominent actor working in many of Romanias leading theaters including Nottara Odeon and Bulandra He then became a director directing such plays as O sărbătoare princiară A Princely Feast by Theodor Mazilu 1982 at Nottara Theatre A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau 1993 at Nottara Theatre and Carlo contra Carlo Carlo against Carlo by Paul Ioachim 1994 at the Odeon which won him that years Romanian Comedy Festival Prize He has since directed over a dozen other stage productions He first appeared as a film actor in 1974 appearing in two films that year Păcală Caution and Muntele Ascuns The Hidden Mountain and has gone on to act in over two dozen other films He also directed Palaria The Hat 2004 TV movie Nunta mută Silent Wedding 2008 and Funeralii fericite Happy Funerals 2013 He has also written two books the autobiographical Horaţiu despre Mălăele Horatiu about Malaele ISBN 9731812172 and Wanderings a collection of short episodes aphorisms and memories