Cornel Popa, studied for 5 years to become a Theatre Director at the very famous Romanian Theatre and Film Institute "Ion Luca Caragiale" (IATC), nowadays the National University for Theatre and Film (UNATC) in Bucharest, finishing it in 1958, together with other Personalities, with whom he started the same year, the Romanian Television, as: Valeriu (Lessner) Lazarov (defected the Communist system in 1967, established later the "Tele cinco" in Spain...), David Esrig (emigrated in 1969 to Germany, founded in the '70ies the Actor's Studio "Athanor" in Munich moved to Burghausen), Petre Sava Baleanu (died early, at the age of 47 years of grief and stress caused by the censorship, poverty, restrictions...), Cornel Todea (Director for many years of the Children Theatre "Ion Creanga" in Bucharest), Letitia Popa Schwartz (emigrated to the States, settling in LA), Andrei Bradeanu (conflicts, Cristian Munteanu (Directed plays for the Romanian Radio Station, which started the Television) etc. ... He put in scene many plays, but got in conflict with stubborn, incapable people, with the strict, controlled rules of the system, which censored or forbade many things, people who made carrier on the base of the Communist Party and / or belonging to its Securitate" organ.

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Cornel Popa

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