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 NeamÈ›. 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 HoraÅ£iu despre Mălăele (“Horatiu about Malaele”, ISBN 9731812172, and Wanderings, a collection of short episodes, aphorisms, and memories.
Horațiu Mălăele Biography / Wiki
| Name | Horațiu Mălăele |
| Also Know | Horațiu-Valentin Mălăele, Horatiu Malaele |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Târgu-Jiu, Gorj, Romania |
| Date of Birth | 1952-08-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday |
Horațiu Mălăele Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Happy Funerals | 2013-06-07 | Three heavy boozers – a Romanian (Horatiu Malaele), a Russian (Igor Caras-Romanov) and a Bulgarian (Mihai Gruia Sandu) – are tripling away their… ha… | |
| Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time | Ilie Moromete | 2018-11-16 | A sequel to MoromeÈ›ii (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with Romania being overpowered by Communism…. |
| DivorÈ›… din dragoste | matematicianul Dan Cantemir | 1992-04-05 | … |
| Alone Amongst Friends | Robert | 1979-01-01 | A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places…. |
| TicăloÈ™ii | Pompi | 2007-03-15 | All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn’t dream…. |
| Maria | Milco | 2003-11-21 | When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats,… |
| Fed Up | Bebe | 1994-01-01 | Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still al… |
| Poker | Titel | 2010-01-01 | In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu’s name stands for “prolific, highly commercial and professional”. At the age of 80, the director … |
| The Miracle | Dinu Carp | 1988-01-01 | An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania…. |
| Happiness Is So Close | Mihai | 1977-01-01 | Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college…. |
| Melodii la Costinesti | 1983-11-07 | The film describes the journeys through which the members of a light music band pass in their attempt to be selected for the Costinesti Labor Festival… | |
| Ultimul Corupt din Romania | Titel Pangica | 2012-02-17 | The latest film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, ‘The last corrupt in Romania,’ is Nicolaescu’s first movie after ‘Poker,’ which became a great box-offi… |
| Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth | 2002-10-03 | Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, fo… | |
| One-Day Adventures | 2008-10-09 | Vlad is a famous actor in Bucharest, married to Alina, who has always been tempted to have extra-conjugal relations…. | |
| Spring of the Goslings | studentul IonuÈ›, fiul Varvarei È™i a lui ToderaÈ™ | 1987-04-06 | Following the intervention of his mother, Barbara ( Tamara Buciuceanu-baptism ), the young Ionut ( Horatiu ), a graduate student at the Faculty of Agr… |
| Ambassadors Seek Country | Titi | 2003-11-14 | Titi and Marius, two friends who fought together during the revolution of 1989, follow very different social and political paths in its aftermath…. |
| Hidden Mountain | Petru | 1974-01-01 | A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that s… |
| Hazelnut Chocolate | Victor Alexe | 1979-04-02 | Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist…. |
| Mad Forest | Filipache | 1982-01-01 | A young communist returns to a small provincial town…. |
| Gloria nu cîntă | Matei | 1977-05-16 | … |
| Casa din vis | Babalete | 1992-01-13 | Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on “Ningea în Bărăgan†novel by FănuÈ™ Neagu…. |
| Les Amants naufragés | Liviu Ionescu | 2011-06-13 | Stan Mirkine would have everything to be happy. Now, he is sure of it: his wife is cheating on him. Too much in love, possessive to the extreme, he is… |
| Family Album | HoraÈ›iu | 2004-11-08 | Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to lower the financial deficit of his company. As the electi… |
| Ora zero | TitiÈ™or Căruntu | 1979-01-01 | In New Year’s Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI…. |
| The Kid | Panaitescu | 1985-01-01 | A metaphor film, in which a group a pupils are going out on a trip. There are various happenings in which adults are interpreting in different ways an… |
| Noro | 2002-02-15 | A compassionate fiction-documentary about an intelligent but handicapped boy who struggles to stand up against an overprotective father and find his p… | |
| The Secret of the Secret Weapon | 1988-01-01 | In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them… | |
| Somewhere in Palilula | Postman | 2012-04-20 | The ’60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of th… |
| Miss Litoral | maestrul Mugurel, preÈ™edintele juriului | 1991-05-27 | … |
| AcÈ›iunea Zuzuc | Busolă | 1985-04-16 | Story of a boy that disappears and the militia officer that investigates the case…. |
| Romantic Destinies | 1981-01-01 | On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities…. | |
| The Wackos | Pépé | 2002-07-31 | … |
| September | The camel | 1978-04-03 | After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best o… |
| The Secret of Bacchus | Nelu | 1984-03-05 | Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed… |
| For Motherland | Lieutenant Hartell | 1977-05-07 | In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia’s side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire…. |
| Secretul lui Nemesis | Tudor | 1987-11-02 | … |
| Fii cu ochii pe fericire | 1999-01-01 | A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to CeauÈ™escu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnateÈ›s… | |
| Amen. | Fritsche | 2002-02-13 | Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn … |
Horațiu Mălăele Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Silent Wedding | Director | 2008-11-21 | In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the… |
| Happy Funerals | Director | 2013-06-07 | Three heavy boozers – a Romanian (Horatiu Malaele), a Russian (Igor Caras-Romanov) and a Bulgarian (Mihai Gruia Sandu) – are tripling away their… ha… |
| Luca | Director | 2020-11-13 | He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Silent Wedding | Screenplay | 2008-11-21 | In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the… |
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