Romania mourns a much loved actor

Gheorghe Dinică, one of the most popular Romanian actors, died yesterday in Bucharest at 75. Dinică was loved not only for his acting, but also because he refused to curry favour with the Ceauşescu regime, the daily Gândul writes: "All of his film roles - diplomats, ministers, villains, gangsters, detectives, workers and bosses - came together to form a fresco that indirectly told the story of Romanian society, depicting at first the unrest of the new political movement after the war, then the construction of the communist regime and its settling of accounts with the past. Later it represented the unrest of yet another system change. ... After the revolution ... he could have become internationally successful. Several times he was on the verge of a European breakthrough when plays and films he acted in won prizes at major festivals. But the isolation of Romanian society blocked this path, as it had done for others of his generation."

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