Mircea Veroiu

Mircea Veroiu (1941-1997) was a Romanian director and screenwriter. A key part of the so-called “Generation of the 70s” that revitalised Romanian film in the late communist period, he made his name as one of the co-directors of the 1971 documentary Water Like a Black Buffalo, which screened at the Cannes International Youth Festival. He then co-directed two films with Dan Pița about the remote communities of the Apuseni Mountains: The Stone Wedding (1972) and Lust for Gold (1974). He would continue to work, in film, television, and theatre throughout the seventies and early eighties, always chafing against censorship. After his 1985 feature Adela enjoyed some festival success abroad, Veroiu emigrated to Paris. In 1989, he returned to Romania, and died in 1997, at the age of just 56.