Ion Popescu-Gopo

Ion Popescu-Gopo was born on 1 May 1923 in Bucharest and took his pen name from the first letters of the names of his parents, Gorenco and Popescu. He began in 1939 as a press illustrator and caricaturist before turning to animated film, where he created a little man in a spare, pared-down style, which became his emblem. He then made fiction films, and is regarded as the founder of the modern Romanian school of animation. He died on 29 November 1989, shortly before the revolution.

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• CinemaA Brief HistoryScurtă istorieIon Popescu-Gopo · 1957Cinema