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Anca Miruna Lăzărescu

german-Romanian film director (born 1979)

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Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ28589416 ↗
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Anca Miruna Lăzărescu (born 1979 in Timișoara) is a German-Romanian film director. For her film work, she has received a nomination for the European Film Award. She directed the international drama series Hackerville (2018) for HBO and TNT Serie as well as the German Netflix series We Are the Wave (2019) and the third season of the Amazon Prime series Hanna.

Life and career

Anca Miruna Lăzărescu studied film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. During her studies, she directed fictional short films, documentaries and commercials. Meanwhile, she also participated in international script workshops.

For her documentary film The Secret of Deva (2007), she received the prize for best German film at the Sehsuechte International Student Film Festival in Potsdam.

In 2011, she graduated from the Munich film school. Her graduation film Silent River celebrated its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and was nominated as best short film for the European Film Award in 2011. The movie screened at over 300 festivals worldwide and won 82 international awards.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Anca Miruna Lăzărescu” as german-Romanian film director (born 1979). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2018, 2019, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-03-25. The account is most persuasive where Anca, Miruna and Lăzărescu can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as german-Romanian film director (born 1979). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28589416. VIAF identifies the subject as 160810209. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2018, 2019 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anca Miruna Lăzărescu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.