Horațiu Mălăele

Born: 1952-08-01

Horațiu-Valentin 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 Târgu-Jiu, 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 Romania's 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 year's 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.


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Amen.

as Fritsche
Released: 2002-02-27

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he...

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Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth

as uncredited
Released: 2002-10-03

Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and...

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The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son

as Ilie Moromete
Released: 2024-09-27

The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young...

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The Secret of the Secret Weapon

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful...

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Somewhere in Palilula

as Postman
Released: 2012-04-20

The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town...

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Luca

as regizor
Released: 2020-11-13

He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.

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The Secret of Bacchus

as Nelu
Released: 1984-03-05

Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming...

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Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time

as Ilie Moromete
Released: 2018-11-16

A sequel to Moromeții (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with...

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Secretul lui Nemesis

as Tudor
Released: 1987-11-02

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Ora zero

as Titișor Căruntu
Released: 1979-01-01

In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is...

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Poker

as Titel
Released: 2010-01-01

In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu's name stands for "prolific, highly...

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Mad Forest

as Filipache
Released: 1982-01-01

A young communist returns to a small provincial town.

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The Wackos

as Pépé
Released: 2002-07-31

When his credit card has just been swallowed by distributor Bruno Lussac, State Inspector Débé...

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Ambassadors Seek Country

as Titi
Released: 2003-11-14

Titi and Marius, two friends who fought together during the revolution of 1989, follow very...

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September

as The camel
Released: 1978-04-03

After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in...

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Maria

as Milco
Released: 2003-11-21

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his...

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Melodii la Costinesti

as uncredited
Released: 1983-11-07

The film describes the journeys through which the members of a light music band pass in their...

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For Motherland

as Lieutenant Hartell
Released: 1977-05-07

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and...

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Spring of the Goslings

as studentul Ionuț, fiul Varvarei și a lui Toderaș
Released: 1987-04-06

Following the intervention of his mother, Barbara ( Tamara Buciuceanu-baptism ), the young Ionut...

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Happiness Is So Close

as Mihai
Released: 1977-01-01

Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who...

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Ticăloșii

as Pompi
Released: 2007-03-15

All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights...

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Acțiunea Zuzuc

as Busolă
Released: 1985-04-16

Story of a boy that disappears and the militia officer that investigates the case.

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Fii cu ochii pe fericire

as uncredited
Released: 1999-01-01

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a...

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Miss Litoral

as maestrul Mugurel, președintele juriului
Released: 1991-05-27

Nea Costel and her consort, Didona, want their daughter, Tina, to participate in the Miss...

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Family Album

as Horațiu
Released: 2004-11-08

Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to...

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Hazelnut Chocolate

as Victor Alexe
Released: 1979-04-02

Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.

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Hidden Mountain

as Petru
Released: 1974-01-01

A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a...

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Romantic Destinies

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to...

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Alone Amongst Friends

as Robert
Released: 1979-01-01

A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.

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Happy Funerals

as uncredited
Released: 2013-06-07

Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian - are tripling away their......

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Noro

as uncredited
Released: 2002-02-15

A compassionate fiction-documentary about an intelligent but handicapped boy who struggles to...

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Ultimul Corupt din Romania

as Titel Pangica
Released: 2012-02-17

The latest film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, 'The last corrupt in Romania,' is Nicolaescu's...

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Las Fierbinţi

as Mos Peleus
First aired: 2012-03-01

A rural comedy where the intrigues caused by the upcoming elections in a small village give rise...

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