Dan Nuțu
Dan Nuțu is known for Working Girls (1987), Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love (1980), Sunday at Six (1965).
Biography
Dan Nuțu is a Romanian stage and film actor and producer, also known for his involvement in documentary filmmaking and film education.
A graduate of the Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in 1966, Nuțu began his career at the Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest. He rose to prominence in cinema with his role in Sunday at Six (Duminică la ora 6, 1965), the debut feature of director Lucian Pintilie, where he played a young communist underground activist. Throughout the late 1960s, he became emblematic of a new type of screen presence in Romanian cinema—intense, rebellious, and emotionally vulnerable. Film critic Tudor Caranfil famously described him as “the tough-yet-vulnerable face of 1960s Romanian cinema.”
He went on to appear in notable films such as Meanders (*Meandre*, 1967) and The Mornings of a Sensible Boy (*Diminețile unui băiat cuminte*, 1967), consolidating his image as a nonconformist youth figure during a transformative period in Romanian filmmaking.
In 1979, Nuțu left Romania and settled in the United States, where he worked as a taxi driver while remaining loosely connected to the film and theater world, mostly in minor or background roles. After the fall of communism, he gradually reconnected with the Romanian film industry. Beginning in 2005, he became involved in the **Aristoteles Workshop**, an international documentary filmmaking program supported by ARTE and TVR, mentoring and supporting new generations of documentary filmmakers.
Today, Dan Nuțu remains a cult figure of the Romanian New Wave’s precursor generation—an actor whose brief but striking 1960s film career left a lasting imprint on Romanian cinema history.
Questions about Dan Nuțu
How many Dan Nuțu films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 9 films with Dan Nuțu, from 1965 to 2022.
What was the first Dan Nuțu film?
The first Dan Nuțu film in the catalogue is Sunday at Six, from 1965.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
25 films — 9 in the catalogue
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8.2 Man and Dog
2022 · Marty M.
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6.4 Puzzle
2013 · Sabin Vianu
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6.2 Working Girls
1987 · George the Cook
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8.0 Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
1982 · Angelo, der Wahnsinnige
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8.5 Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
1980 · Lieutenant
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The Hope
1979
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7.3 Ora zero
1979 · Jorj
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8.4 Melodii, melodii
1978
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7.2 Astray
1978 · Adrian
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7.5 Împușcături sub clar de lună
1977 · Luca Aron
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7.4 Steps in the Sky
1977 · Traian
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8.0 Tănase Scatiu
1976 · Mihai
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8.2 Ilustrate cu flori de câmp
1975 · Victor
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7.8 Porțile albastre ale orașului
1974 · tunarul Păun
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6.8 Dincolo de nisipuri
1974 · Niculai / Ion Mohreanu
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5.9 100 de lei
1973 · Petre
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7.2 Bariera
1972 · ucenicul Treispemii
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5.2 Adio, dragă Nela!
1972
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5.4
Asediul
1971 · Valer
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8.2 Prea mic pentru un război atât de mare
1970
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6.5 Printre colinele verzi
1970 · Paul Sucuturdean
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6.3 Apoi s-a născut „Legenda”
1969 · Mitu
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6.5 Diminețile unui băiat cuminte
1967 · Vive
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6.5 Meanders
1966 · Gelu, Constantin's son
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6.4 Sunday at Six
1965 · Radu
People data: TMDb.
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