Petru Popescu Petru Popescu i(A44866 works by)
Born: Established: 1946
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Romania,
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Eastern Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Petru Popescu was at one time Romania's most famous opposition writer. He escaped from communist Romania to the United States of America in 1977 and went on to become a best-selling American author and a successful Hollywood film maker and screen writer. Although never residing in Australia, Popescu collaborated with Peter Weir (q.v.) on the screenplay and film The Last Wave, based on Popescu's novel of the same name and set in Australia. Popescu's other novels (none of them connected with Australia), include Bough (1973), In Hot Blood (1988) and The Return (1997). In 2001 he published The Oasis : A Memoir of Love and Survival in a Concentration Camp, the story of how his parents met in wartime Germany.

Popescu's television writing credits include the teleplay Obsessive Love (1984) and the mini series Emma : Queen of the South Seas (1988). His film credits include Death of an Angel (1986) and Nobody's Children (1994).

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • This author is erroneously included in the List of Australian Writers (Arnold, et al, 1995).

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon The Last Wave ( dir. Peter Weir ) Australia : McElroy and McElroy Ayr Productions , 1977 Z971052 1977 single work film/TV horror fantasy (taught in 1 units)

Based on an original idea by Peter Weir, The Last Wave concerns a young Sydney lawyer who, while defending four Aboriginal men against a murder charge, becomes troubled by dreams. He soon begins to feel the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilisation. A series of apparently random occurences assume a disturbing pattern and the city becomes a facade for a place of ancient ritual.

1978 Nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Screenplay - Original
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