While Marin Preda was alive, it never occurred to me that I could hope to screen the “Morome.” “Thomas suggested that I make a film after ‘The Lonely Man.’ At that time, Marin Preda was a man who could decide who and what he could do after his work and did not embrace the idea, but in this way I met him and I was around them for a while, until Caragiu perished. Stere Gulea is the one who, at that time, knew Marin Preda with the help of Toma Caragiu. Please make an effort, re-filming the memory sequences (or giving up some of them), as well as adding some frames and sequences that give coherence to the story, in its most dramatic core “, wrote Marin He taught in a letter to the House of Films No. Also, the way the love story is told is flawed, inconsistent. “I am dissatisfied and consider them unrepresentative for my literature almost all the flashback sequences that illustrate the life of the village, the childhood and youth of Niculae Moromete. Even though the screenplay was written by him, Iulian Mihu’s film exceeded his expectations, with its premiere on September 26, 1977. In 1976, Marin Preda was persuaded, but with difficulty, to accept that “The Great Lonely One”, another novel in addition to “The Murmurs”, be brought to the big screens.

Before he died, the author expressed his fears about a possible screening of “Moromeți”. However, few know the story of the movie Moromeții.Įven if the screenwriter of the films “Mihai Viteazul” and “Setea” opposed the making of this film, he reached the big screens due to the intervention of the occupant of Cabinet 2 who also dealt with the approval of the annual productions of Romanian cinema.Īlthough Marin Preda’s novel enjoyed immense popularity, it was not screened until the 1980s. Stere Gulea’s production is one of the most important films of Romanian cinema.

Moromeții I by Marin Preda