Cristina Flutur

Cristina Flutur
Cristina Flutur and Cristian Mungiu (Cannes Film Festival 2012)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present

Cristina Flutur is a Romanian film and theatre actress.

In 2012 she made her debut in cinema, portraying the complex Alina Ringhis, main character in Cristian Mungiu's praised drama, Beyond the Hills. For her outstanding performance in this film she received the Best Actress Award^[1] at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Before 2012, she performed for several years in theatre productions, both in Romania, on the stage of the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu, and abroad, when on tour to Kiev, Sarajevo, Helsinki, Turku, Sankt-Petersburg, Skopjie, Trabzon, Ljiubljana, Naples, Bogota, Rome.^[2]

Biography[]

After finishing high school, mathematics and physics department, she decided to study Romanian and English languages and literature, along with American literature, at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in her hometown. Meantime, Cristina was a member of the Ludic Theatre, a company of amateur theatre for students.

After graduating from her first faculty, she decided to get seriously into acting and became a student at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, studying acting with professor (actor at the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj) and (actress at the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre).

Artistic activity[]

Theatre[]

Right after finishing her studies at the drama department of Babeș-Bolyai University, she became an actress for the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu, Romania. Here she performed in many productions, both classical and modern, under the guidance of famous Romanian and foreign directors: Alexandru Dabija, , , Andrei Șerban, , , , , Alexander Hausvater, , Florin Zamfirescu, , .

During FITS, the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, she also played many roles in reading performances, recorded for the radio.

She performed at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu for a few years, then she moved to Bucharest as a freelancer.

Theatre productions 2004-2013:^[3]

• "Platonov" by A.P.Chekhov, directed by , role: Alexandra Ivanovna;
• "Time for Love, Time for Death" by Fritz Kater, directed by , roles: a pupil, the teacher, the storyteller;
• "Turandot" adapted from Carlo Gozzi, directed by , role: Turandot;
• "The Guide of a Regained Childhood", by Andrei Codrescu, directed by , role: Dulcea;
• "Metamorphosis" adapted from Publius Ovidius Naso, directed by , performance based on improvisations;
• "Love Factory" by , directed by , role: Marie Duplessis;
• "Life with an Idiot" adapted from Victor Erofeev, directed by , role: The Wife;
• "Othello?!" adapted from William Shakespeare, directed by , role: Desdemona;
• "Today Is No Smoking Day" by , directed by , role: Iustina;
• "The Seagull" by A.P.Chekhov, directed by Andrei Serban, role: Nina Zarechnaya;
• "Plasticine" by , directed by , role: Spira;
• "Rhinoceros" by Eugene Ionesco, directed by , role: The Waitress;
• "Pantagruel's Sister-in-Law" adapted from Rabelais, directed by , performance based on improvisations;
• "The Human Voice" by Jean Cocteau, directed by Rodica Radu, one-woman show;
• "Derby – an improvisation championship" directed by Alexander Hausvater, performance based on improvisations;
• "Sweet Thursday" adapted from John Steinbeck, directed by , role: Ida;
• "The Clouds", by Aristophanes, directed by Florin Zamfirescu.

Theatre plays in Bucharest:

• 2017 - "Three Sisters", by A.P.Chekhov, directed by , role: Masha, Radio drama for Radio Romania Cultural;
• 2017-2019 - "Konkurs", adapted from Al. Galin, directed by Emanuel Parvu, role: Nina Ionescu, Metropolis Theatre.

Film[]

In 2011 Cristina Flutur was called for an audition for a part in the new feature by the Romanian Golden Palm winner, Cristian Mungiu. After a few screen tests, she was offered one of the main roles, that of a troubled girl brought up in an orphanage, Alina Ringhis.

Acclaimed both by the critics and by the audience for her impeccable, most authentic, powerful and touching performance, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

One year later, in 2013, Cristina Flutur started her first project in a foreign language, performing in French the role of Cristina Boico in the TV mini-series "Resistance". Cristina Boico was a Romanian Jewish woman who fought for the French Resistance during the Second World War. Produced by Alain Goldman, the producer of "La mome",^[4] the mini-series casts also Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry et Isabelle Nanty and was broadcast in the spring of 2014 on TF1 (France) and RTS Un (Switzerland) and in 2015 on More4 (UK), being nominated in 2015 for Best TV movie at the Globes de Cristal Award.

In 2014 she started shooting for her first feature film in English in an international co-production. The film is directed by the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu and it had its premiere in 2017 at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Later that year it won the Grand Prix at Tokyo International Film Festival.

Filmography[]

• Villetta con ospiti (Italy), feature film, 2019, directed by Ivano de Matteo, role: Sonia;
• Carturan (Romania), feature film, 2019, directed by Liviu Sandulescu, role: Ana;
• Backdraft II (USA), feature film, 2019, directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, role: Mother;
• Cu unul în plus/Just One More (Romania), short film, 2018, directed by Valeriu Andriuta, role: Marina;
• Să nu ucizi/Thou Shalt Not Kill (Romania), feature film, 2018, directed by Gabi Sarga & Catalin Rotaru, role: Sofia;
• When I Die the World Ends (Sweden/Greece/Germany), short film, 2018, directed by Jennifer Rainsford, role: Anna-Helen;
• Hawaii (Romania), feature film, 2017, directed by Jesus del Cerro, role: Ioana Balan;
• Grain (film) (Turkey/Germany), feature film, 2017, directed by Semih Kaplanoglu, role: Alice;
• Fragments of Gabi (Belgium/Romania), short film, 2016, directed by Jaro Minne, role: Gabi;
• Raisa (Austria/Moldova/Romania), short film, 2015, directed by Pavel Cuzuioc, role: Raisa Poiana;
• Resistance (France), TV mini-series (TF1, RTS Un & More4), 2014, directed by & Miguel Courtois; produced by Alain Goldman, role: Cristina Boico;
• Beyond the Hills (Romania/Belgium/France), feature film, 2012, directed by Cristian Mungiu, role: Alina Ringhis.

Awards[]

• 2012 Best Actress Award - 2012 Cannes Film Festival, for the role Alina Ringhis in "Beyond the Hills", directed by Cristian Mungiu;
• 2013 "Woman of the Year 2012", "Ambassador of the Romanian Art Abroad", offered by "Avantaje" magazine, Bucharest, Romania;
• 2017 - Aswan International Women Film Festival, Egypt;
• 2018 - Romanian Gopo Awards, for the role Ioana in Hawaii, directed by Jesus del Cerro;
• 2018 for the role of Masha in "Three Sisters", a radio drama directed by Gavriil Pinte;
• 2010 "Diploma for Excellency", granted by the Ministry of Culture for her work on the stage of Radu Stanca National Theatre, Sibiu, Romania.

References[]

External links[]

• Cristina Flutur, imdb.com