I would like to announce today the release of two new volumes signed by Ion Moldovan. Both were published in 2022, in the collection Tal publishing house Cluj Echo of Transylvania. The volumes in which the author continues his approach, started many years ago, with the help of which he intends to transfer to the book pages at least part of the lights of the ramp, in which artistic personalities bathed, most often of the first magnitude. , reached at the top of his career and at the time of his confession. Acting and directing personalities to whom the book gives the status of characters.

Books signed by Ion Moldovan are full of useful insights for those who want to know something more, or in any case something different, than they could learn from magazines glossy about this actor or actress. In parentheses, it should be said, too often corresponding journals glossy they are also guilty of distorting the word and concept of star.

Most often, Ion Moldovan’s books are based on consistent, in-depth interviews, during which they are skilfully and carefully analyzed. impure. The interviews are supplemented by confessions of colleagues on the stage and quotes from the press, which recorded theatrical events, the participants of which were interviewed.

The same goes for volume Virginia Rogin Passion and destiny. The book reproduces the artistic trajectory of the actress, who essentially connected her name with the theatrical Odeum from Bucharest. So the director Radu Afrim is undoubtedly right when at the end of his intervention in the form preface (the book also has a foreword by Raluka Thulbure) calls Virginia Rogin Gina d’Odeon. It is appropriate to say that he performed so praised in all the performances that the above-mentioned director staged there.

However, until she got there, until she became an actress in the important theater of Calea Victoria, the childhood and youth of the heroine of the book was spent on the Moldavian plains, school years with well-trained, serious teachers commanded respect and, before the aforementioned, all this in a family that understood his passion for the theater. Who respected her decision to become an actress. Which helped her overcome two failures in entrance exams. Directors Zoe Angel-Stank and Sanda Manu called for perseverance. Virginia Rogin followed her dream. He was part of the ensemble for two years in theaters in Oradea and Satu Mare, places where he had useful encounters (here I remember meetings with the director Alexandru Tocilescu, who was then at the beginning of his career, and with Coca Bluess, who simply abandoned journalism in favor of the theater), then she became a student in the class of Professor Demo Redulescu. After graduation, he interned at the Youth Theater in Pyatra-Neamts. Where he found a bit of the establishment’s golden age.

All kinds of life troubles imposed on the actress a period of not entirely pleasant tests. From the denial of well-deserved access to the theater in the capital to the grueling journey to Giurgiu, where the theater was moved due to order and political considerations Ion Vasilescu and to the not too comfortable and obviously dangerous status of a Theater employee Juleshti.

A strong, victorious character, a detail that also stands out among the not-so-comfortable answers to Ion Moldovan’s questions, helped Virginia Rogin. Character and passion for the theater. A passion that ultimately protected his destiny. Despite some not always favorable circumstances, the main character of the book achieved notable roles, developed to a notable level of talent and professionalism in the performances carefully mentioned in the book. He acted in movies, and after 2000 he constantly appeared in the credits of many telenovelas. Could this mean artistic retirement? No nothing. As for me, I share his opinion that such productions reveal a good actor, a master of his craft.

Virginia Rogin did not avoid envy or counter-attacks collegiate. He knew how to overcome them with facts, and not with unnecessary protests and scandals. Theatrical everyday life is still not milk and honey. Neither her failed marriage to Mircea Gandile, nor what followed, disheartened her. In one of the sections of the final part of the volume, the son of the actress joins the discussion. Historian Andrii Gandile, who has a distinguished teaching and research career in the United States.

The book ends with appendices of valuable documentary value. Lists of significant roles and photos.

book Mimi Enachanu. A rose in December this is a completely different account. Mainly documentary. It is based on confessions recorded decades ago by the main character, on two interviews in which the actress shows herself trained, we cultivate intelligent, spontaneous, ironic, eternal, as they say, on the stage, according to extracts from the press. All this was saved with great efforts by the famous historian Manole Filitti, the husband of the actress, who decided to write a book himself, in which he would trace the evolution of the career of the actress, who was unfairly left in the public eye. consciousness only for its evolution in the film Hello, great-grandmother of the earth. All this preserved memory was given to Ion Moldovan de acad. Georgetta Filitti. An admirable gesture. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro