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Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (born 13 April 1930) is a Romanian director, actor and politician. He is best known for his historical movies, such as Mihai Viteazul (1970, a.k.a. Last Crusade or Michael the Brave), Dacii (1966, Les Guerriers), Razboiul independentei (1977, War of Independence), as well as for his series of thrillers such as Un Comisar Acuză (1973, A Police Inspector Calls) that take place in Romania between the World Wars. He is one of the most popular film directors in Romania.

Sergiu Nicolaescu was born in Târgu Jiu, but he grew up in Timişoara, where his family moved when he was 5 years old. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest as a mechanical engineer. After graduation he started to work as a camera operator. Nicolaescu's debut as a director was in 1962 with the short film Shells Have Never Spoken (Scoicile nu au vorbit niciodata). His first feature film was the 1966 French/Romanian co-production Dacii (Les Guerriers). Nicolaescu continued his film-making career by directing a large number of movies and also starring in many of his own movies.

Most of Nicolaescu's movies are centered on figures and events from the Romanian history. The scripts are conceived to promote the figure or the event, and usually convey nationalistic messages. During the Communist era, some of his movies were seen as ground-breaking through their way of publicly presenting Romanian history, while other have been considered as simple nationalistic propaganda. For instance, the movie Razboiul independentei was the first Communist-era Romanian file to present in a positive fashion a Romanian king. On the other hand, Mircea (1989, also known as Proud Heritage) is often considered as a pure propaganda movie, including elements of personality cult and a legendary, standardised version of reality (much as in Hollywood "historical" films or biopics). In any event, the movie was officially blocked from distribution.

Some believe that the work of Nicolaescu fits in the domain of Communist state propaganda, to whose policy of national identity-building through the imposition of a standardised version of history and a personality cult based in part on historical figures Nicolaescu clearly contributed. However, this nationalistic approach to Romanian history was not invented by the Communists. Arguably, Nicolaescu's "nationalism" is just love for history and military history. Communist propaganda played only a marginal role in Nicolaescu's movies concerning Romania between the World Wars.

Nicolaescu began a career as a politician after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and was elected to the Romanian Senate in 1992 as a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party.

Although his recent films have not been as popular as his earlier productions, he continues to direct new films, such as Orient Express (2004) or Cincsprezece (2005, 15), a love story set against the background of the 1989 Revolution.

Feature films

# Dacii - 1967 # Lupta pentru Roma (co-director Robert Siodmack) - 1968 # Ciorap de piele (co-director Pierre Gaspar) - 1968 # Ultimul mohican - 1968 # Lacul din Ontario - 1968 # Preeria - 1968 # Mihai Viteazul - 1971 # Atunci i-am condamnat pe toti la moarte - 1972 # Cu mâinile curate - 1972 # Lupul mărilor (co-director W. Standte) - 1972 # Razbunarea - 1972 # Ultimul cartus - 1973 # Un comisar acuza - 1974 # Nemuritorii - 1974 # Insula comorilor - 1975 # Piratii - 1975 # Zile fierbinti - 1975 # Osanda - 1976 # Accident - 1977 # Pentru patrie - 1977 # Razboiul independentei (co-directors Doru Nastase, Gh. Vitanidis) - 1977 # Revansa - 1978 # Nea Marin miliardar - 1978 # Mihail, câine de circ - 1978 # Ultima noapte de dragoste - 1979 # Capcana mercenarilor - 1980 # Duelul - 1981 # Întalnirea - 1982 # Viraj periculos - 1982 # Ringul - 1983 # Cautatorii de aur - 1985 # Ciuleandra - 1985 # Ziua Z - 1985 # Noi, cei din linia intai - 1986 # Francois Villon - 1987 # Mircea - 1989 # Coroana de foc - 1990 # Cucerirea Angliei - 1990 # Oglinda - 1994 # Punctul zero - 1996 # Triunghiul mortii - 1999 # Orient Express - 2004 # 15 - 2005

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