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Catinca Untaru became the first Romanian child actress to star in an international film. Right from the start, her discovery has consisted of a series of fortunate coincidences. At first, it was the recommendation of one of her former teachers that lead talent agent Andreea Tanasescu to her.
The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed and co-written by Tarsem and starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell. It is based on the screenplay of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho by Valeri Petrov. [3] Its costume design is by Eiko Ishioka.
Catinca 😸 (@catinca.untaru) • Instagram photos and videos. 0 Followers, 1,047 Following, 78 Posts - Catinca 😸 (@catinca.untaru) on Instagram: "Pole dancer/night publisher/day 📚 YFF ‘24 Beginners 🥇 KAC ‘24 Overall Winner 🏆 KAC ‘24 Inters Classique 🥇 Alexandria in The Fall (2006) 🎥".
Jun 5, 2021 · Catinca Untaru's non-acting is the core of the film. The actress didn't know English, and so as she grapples with words, the sound of her dialogues begs the screenplay to jump to her visuals. The film, financed by Tarsem himself (no one would invest in this child's-play of a script apparently), was labelled a 'vanity project' by Variety .
Nov 27, 2008 · Catinca Untaru, then 8, plays the little girl in Tarsem's visual masterpiece "The Fall," and is told legends by a wounded soldier which she translates into her own fantasies. She embodies a purity, a naiveté and an affectlessness beyond description.
Biography. Catinca was born in Bucharest, Romania on 21 March 1997, the only child of Untaru family. When she was three years old, she told her grandparents that she would like to became a theatre actress waiting for people to give her flowers on a stage.
The most striking piece of this film is its female lead, Catinca Untaru, who at the time of filming was an unknown six-year-old Romanian girl. She spoke very little English and often misspoke her lines, producing the most poetical lines that no writer could ever create.
May 9, 2008 · The story takes place once upon a time in a picturesque Los Angeles hospital, where a pudgy Romanian 5-year-old named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) convalesces from a broken arm.
Jun 3, 2008 · Set in Los Angeles in 1915, it involves a paralyzed stunt man and a four-year old Romanian girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) who occupy separate wings in a hospital where most of the beds are empty -- waiting, probably, to be filled by victims of the Great War.
When Tarsem found the Romanian girl Catinca Untaru, she was six years old and did not speak English, though she quickly learned (first imitating Tarsem’s English, including his Indian accent: then Tarsem got Romanians to communicate with her for him).
