Actor, theater director and former Minister of Culture Ion Ungureanu was honored at the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu” as part of an event themed the Theater of My Life on November 15 in the evening, Info-Prim Neo reports. Actor Gheorghe Urschi said Ion Ungureanu contributed essentially to the foundation and development of the legendary troupe of “Luceafarul” Theater. He translated plays into Romanian and staged a lot of magnificent plays. While Ion Ungureanu headed the Ministry of Culture, there had been opened dozens of libraries with Romanian books and the largest number of theaters, including “Eugen Ionesco”, “Ginta Latina”, “Guguta”, “Satiricus”. There was renovated and reopened the National Theater “Mihai Eminescu”, which was earlier named “A. Pushkin”. Ion Ungureanu remembered how he was dismissed from the post of Minister of Culture while the country was governed by the Agrarians and how he was sent to take his unemployed person’s card. Acting President Mihai Ghimpu said Ion Ungureanu forms part of the golden generation of the Moldovan theater culture. “You worked successfully as theater director and actor in Moscow and as deputy head of the Romanian Cultural Foundation in Bucharest. As senior director of “Luceafarul” Theater, you put on great plays that will remain in the history of our theater,” he said. The event was organized on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Ion Ungureanu that he celebrated on August 2. The head of the Theater Union Sandu Grecu explained that the actors born in summer celebrate their anniversaries later as the theaters are on vacation in summer.