Tulcea is a city in Northern Dobruja, Romania. It is the administrative center of Tulcea County, and had a population of 73,707 as of 2011. One village, Tudor Vladimirescu, is administered by the city.
Maia Emilia Ninel Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is best known for portraying the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Balanța, a film known in the United States as The Oak, set during the waning days of Communist Romania. She received a star on the Romanian Walk of Fame in Bucharest on 1 May 2011.
Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.
Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen was a Romanian engineer and physicist, who worked in telegraphy and telephony and had achievements in mechanical engineering, elasticity, thermodynamics, long distance telephony, electrochemistry, and civil engineering.
Femeia visurilor is a 2005 Romanian film directed by Dan Pița and starring Dan Condurache and Răzvan Vasilescu.
Occident is a 2002 Romanian film released in directed by Cristian Mungiu. It stars Alexandru Papadopol as a 29-year-old man named Luci and Anca Androne as his wife Sorina. The film is a tragicomedy about young people who move to the West when they are not financially successful in Romania.
Love Sick is a 2006 Romanian drama film directed by Tudor Giurgiu. It is a lesbian-themed love story that has been compared to My Summer of Love.
Dina Cocea was a Romanian stage actress and occasional movie star with a career that spanned 50 years. Among other activities, Cocea was an actor in residence at the National Theatre Bucharest for 17 years, a professor and Dean at the University of Bucharest, writer and columnist, playwright, political activist, and representative to UNESCO.
Internet censorship in Romania is mainly related to the filtering of sites with pornographic content hosted in Romania.
Vasilescu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Earth's Most Beloved Son is a 1993 Romanian drama film, directed by Șerban Marinescu, based on the novel Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni by Marin Preda.
Lia Olguţa Vasilescu is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). She served as mayor of Craiova from 2012 to 2017, when she resigned to become Minister of Labor.
Ștefania Mărăcineanu was a Romanian physicist.
Carnival Scenes is a 1981 Romanian drama film directed by Lucian Pintilie. It was banned in Romania and was not shown until after the 1989 revolution. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cuibul de viespi is a 1986 Romanian comedy film directed by Horea Popescu.
Niki and Flo is a 2003 Romanian drama film directed by Lucian Pintilie.
Lelia Constanța Băjenescu was the first female amateur radio operator in Romania.
The kidnapping of Alexandra Măceșanu and Luiza Melencu happened in Caracal, Olt County, Romania on 25 July 2019. Romanian police were heavily criticized for taking 19 hours to locate and search the building where she was held captive. The handling of the case met widespread outrage and protests, which led to the dismissal of Interior Minister Nicolae Moga and other officials.
Ion Dumitrache, artistically and commonly known as Nelu Ploieșteanu, was a Romanian lăutar, singer and fiddler of lăutărească music. He was born on 16 December 1950 in Ciorani, in the Prahova Region, in Romania. Already at age 6, he played the accordion, and at age 17, he played music for money for the first time on a piano at a wedding. He moved to Bucharest in 1970 and worked for 6 months at the Ion Vasilescu Magazine Theater.
