Maria Popistașu

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Alina-Maria Popistașu (born January 21, 1980 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian actress .

biography

Maria Popistașu attended an art college with a focus on theater. After graduating from school in 1998, she moved to the National Theater and Film University in Bucharest . During her studies she worked with the Bucharest National Theater for three years. She played Sascha in Tolstoy's The Living Corpse and was seen as Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters .

After training as an actor until 2002, Popistașu played a supporting supporting role in Gillies MacKinnon's award-winning multi -part television series Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), in which she acted alongside Catherine McCormack as Lady Marie. She became known to a broad British audience in the same year through David Yates Sex Traffic , after she was discovered in Bucharest during a casting for the two-part television play. In the four-hour drama that was filmed in Romania and London , she and her compatriot Anamaria Marinca slipped into the roles of two Moldovan sisters who are promised a better professional future in London. In fact, the girls run into human traffickers who kidnap the two sisters across Romania, Serbia , Albania and Italy to Great Britain and force them to engage in prostitution . The Canadian - British co-production (produced by CBC and Channel 4 ) was successful with international critics who rated Yates' study as a depressing and believable look at the dirty reality of the sexual slavery and corruption business. The acting performance of the two unknown Romanian actresses was also in the focus of the critics. The part of Vara, the younger and more naive of the two kidnapped sisters, who later becomes the henchman of the human traffickers, brought Popistașu the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actress in November 2005 .

After this success, the actress concentrated on a film career and made her cinema debut in Jörg Kalt's Crash Test Dummies (2005). In the tragic comedy, which was staged at the 55th Berlin Film Festival , she slipped into the role of the Romanian car smuggler Ana, who ends up stranded in Vienna with a compatriot (played by Bogdan Dumitrache ) . A year later she was represented again at the Berlinale with the drama Legături bolnăvicioase (international English title: Love Sick ) by the Romanian director Tudor Giurgiu , in which she plays the fun-loving student Kiki, who is on an affair with a shy fellow student (played by Ioana Barbu) admits. Her first role in a Romanian film earned her a prize at the Anonimul film festival in Sfântu Gheorghe . In 2007 she was the first Romanian actress to receive the Shooting Star Award for her portrayal at the 57th Berlin Film Festival . In the same year she was seen in the Belgian film Man zkt vrouw by Miel Van Hoogenbemt . Here she slipped into the female lead of the young and bright Romanian household worker Alina, who became the object of desire for a retired Belgian school director (played by Jan Decleir ).

She took on a similar role in Hans Steinbichler's German feature film production The Second Woman (2008). In the drama, she can be seen at the side of Monica Bleibtreu as the partner of a shy, clumsy and much older gas station owner from the German provinces (played by Matthias Brandt ) who she met through a dating agency in Romania. Film critic Björn Wirth ( Berliner Zeitung ) then praised Popistașu as a “discovery” of the film. "The 28-year-old Romanian does so much with so little, she is extremely versatile and doesn't seem a bit excessive," said Wirth, while the Stuttgarter Zeitung praised her game as excellent. Both Steinbichler and Brandt as well as Popistașu were awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2009 for their achievements .

Filmography

Awards

Adolf Grimme Prize

Anonimul International Film Festival

  • 2006: Special prize of the jury for their representation in Legături bolnăvicioase

Berlin International Film Festival

Gemini Award

  • 2005: Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Program or TV Multipartor for Sex Traffic (Part 1)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Strachan: Film about European sex trade grim but worthwhile viewing. In: Edmonton Journal. (Alberta), Oct. 8, 2004, p. E13, What's On.
  2. ↑ Martin Skegg, Will Hodgkinson, Andrew Mueller: The Guide: Television: Tuesday 19th September: Watch This. In: The Guardian . September 16, 2006, p. 77, The Guide.
  3. ↑ Björn Wirth: About water. In: Berliner Zeitung . Issue 274, November 21, 2008, p. 30.
  4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: A mother's boy is looking for love. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. November 20, 2008, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Popistașu, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popistașu, Alina-Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest