Nicolae Esinencu

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Nicolae Esinencu (13 August 1940 – 25 April 2016) was a Moldovan poet, screenwriter and writer. He was born in Chiţcani, in the Teleneşti district of Moldova, which was then part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[1]

Esinencu attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow between 1971 and 1975, then his first writing credit was for co-writing the screenplay for Vlad Ioviță's 1975 film Calul, pușca și nevasta.^[1] The two then collaborated on other projects. In 2010, friends organised a celebration for his seventieth birthday and true to his reputation as a "terrible child" he did not turn up.^[2] He was a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union and the Writers' Union of Romania.^[1] He died on April 25, 2016.^[3]

• Antene (1968)
• Sacla (1968)
• Sens (1969)
• Portocala (1970)
• Toi (1972)
• Dealuri (1974)
• Era vremea să iubim (1977)
• Copilul teribil (1979)
• Stai să-ți mai spun (1983)
• Cuvinte de chemat fetele (1986)

• Calul, pușca și nevasta (co-written with Vlad Ioviță; 1975)
• Făt-Frumos (2 episodes; 1977)
• Căruța (short film; 1978)
• La porțile Satanei (co-written with Vlad Ioviță; 1980)
• Tunul de lemn (1986)
• Tălpile verzi (short film; 1987)
• Adio, viață de holtei (short film; 1988)