Liviu Ciulei

Romanian theater and film director, film writer, actor, architect, educator, costume and set designer. _____________ Liviu Ciulei, 88 Romanian film, theater director BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Liviu Ciulei, a Romanian film and theater director whose career spanned 50 years and included a top award at the Cannes Film Festival, has died. He was 88. Ciulei- who served as the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and taught at universities in New York - died on Monday night at a hospital in Munich, the German city where he lived, said Romanian actor Ion Caramitru. "An era has died! A genius had died!" said Caramitru, who heads Romania's UNITER theater union. "Without Liviu Ciulei, there would be no Romanian theater." No cause of death was given. Published: Delaware County Daily Times (Primos, Pa) 10-26-2011