Graziela Albini(1926-2008)
- Actress
Graziela Albini, was born in 1926, in the "Mots' Country" ("Tara
Motilor), in the very North of Romania, a place she was very proud
of. She finished the "Faculty of Theatre" in Timisoara, in 1950,
becoming an actress with the local "State Theatre", later with the
Theatres "Giulesti" and "Bulandra" in Bucharest. In spite of playing
eight main parts in films, as: "The Eruption" ("Eruptia") in 1957, "The
Men next to you" ("Omul de langa tine") in 1961, "Love, for an Evening"
("Dragoste lunga de-o Seara") in 1963, "Codine" (1963), awarded at the
Film Festival in Cannes as the best screen play, "Sunday, at 6 o'Clock"
("Duminica, la Ora 6") in 1965, working with famous Romanian directors
as: Lucian Pintilie, Liviu Ciulei, Horea Popescu, Paul Calinescu and
the French Henri Colpi, next to famous Romanian actors as: Fory
Etterle, George Calboreanu, Irina Petrescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Tamara
Buciuceanu, Emanoil Petrut, Silvia Popovici, Ernest Maftei, Octavian
Cotescu, Stela Popescu etc., getting to be a well-known actress of the
'50-'60s, participating also in many Radio and TVR programs, she
became "tired" and "fed up" with the "communist" system, deciding in
1969 to leave the country and take into exile. She went first to
Germany, where she stayed for 6 years, reading - from time to time -
new for "Radio Free Europe" ("Radio Europa Libera") in Munich, after
which she moved further to Canada, settling in Montreal, where she
pursued her artistic aims, also in the last year of her life, in spite
of her illness, achieving to publish two volumes, one of poetry and the
other one of prose. She was buried on Monday, 25 August 2008, at the
funeral complex "Mont Royal".
