Renowned Romanian actor Ion Caramitru, director of Bucharest National Theatre, dies at 79
He performed in over 60 theatre plays adapted after Shakespeare, Cehov, Pirandello, Buchner, Bernard Shaw, Alfred de Musset, Suto Andras, Rolf Hochhuth and many others. He also starred in more than 40 films.
Caramitru was among the leaders of the anti-communist revolution in Bucharest in December 1989. On December 22, 1989, leading a group of demonstrators, he broke into the HQs of the Romanian Television, being the first who announced on the state TV that Ceausescu’s dictatorship was over.
For four years, since 1996 to 2000, he was minister of Culture.