Victoria Barbă

Victoria Ivanovna Barbă was a Moldovan animated film director, focused on movies for children. Having been born in modern Russia, she studied in Saint Petersburg and then in Chișinău, today in Moldova. She had a productive career, with an extensive filmography and numerous earned distinctions.

Biography

Victoria Barbă was born on 19 September 1926 in Tambov, in the Soviet Union. Her father was a Megleno-Romanian, and she belonged to a family originally displaced from Southern Dobruja to Northern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War in 1913, after which they emigrated to the Tambov Governorate in the Russian Empire.
Barbă studied in the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State [Academy of Art and Design|Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design] in Leningrad and in the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical Institute in Chișinău. She would become director of animated films, especially oriented for children. She produced for Moldova-Film, a film studio and production company of the Moldavian SSR, and founded the Floricica Production House, aimed at cinema for children. During her career, Barbă received 98 diplomas, 19 awards and 8 gold medals at Soviet and Moldovan film festivals.
Her filmography includes the following films: Puiul de cocostârc în colivie, Mărțișor – sărbătoarea primăverii,, Copii, soarele și zăpada, În jurul lumii, Opriți timpul, Dragoste de țară, Hora de stele, Ziua de naștere a Carolinei, Căderea frunzelor, Podul de stele, Fantezie cosmică, Iepurașul din ianuarie.
Barbă died on 3 May 2020, aged 93.