1. Liviu Ciulei received a star on the Romanian Walk of Fame in Bucharest on 13 December 2012.
13 Facts About Liviu Ciulei
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Liviu Ciulei then studied architecture and theater at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Theatre.
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Liviu Ciulei made his theater debut in 1946, as Puck in an Odeon Theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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In 1961, Liviu Ciulei gained an overall recognition for his version of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
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Liviu Ciulei was the recipient of the Directors' Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival for Forest of the Hanged, the film version of Liviu Rebreanu's eponymous novel, where he starred in the role of Otto Klapka.
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Liviu Ciulei was the artistic director of Teatrul Bulandra for more than a decade.
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Liviu Ciulei was a guest director in many theaters around the world: in West Berlin, Paris, Gottingen, Dusseldorf, Munich, and Vancouver.
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From 1986 to 1990, Liviu Ciulei taught theater direction at Columbia University in New York, in the MFA program in theatre arts.
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Liviu Ciulei was named Honorary Director of the theater he has always loved the most, Bulandra.
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Liviu Ciulei was first married to actress Clody Bertola, and then to scenographer Ioana Gardescu.
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Liviu Ciulei remarried, to German journalist Helga Reiter, whose son from a previous marriage he adopted.
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Liviu Ciulei died on 24 October 2011 in a hospital in Munich, aged 88; he had been suffering from multiple illnesses.
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Liviu Ciulei's body was cremated, and the subject was brought up in television debates regarding Sergiu Nicolaescu's cremation in 2013 as to how the act of cremation is not sanctioned by the Romanian Orthodox Church.