Lucian Bratu

Lucian Bratu (1924-1998) was a Romanian filmmaker. Born to a Jewish family, he graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1948 before studying at the prestigious VGIK film school in Moscow in 1955. He made his directorial debut in 1959 withSecret of the Cipher. His fiction films include The Kiss (1965), A Charming Girl (1967), Road in the Shadows (1972), The Bride on the Train (1979), and Angela Moves On (1981), notable for its use in Radu Jude’s hit 2024 title Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. Bratu also directed dozens of documentary films, and following the fall of communism taught directing at the Bucharest Academy of Theatre and Film. From 1978, he spent some time in the United States, where he wrote the screenplay for Peter Weir’s acclaimed The Last Wave (1978).