Actor Florin Piersic, 88 years old, was transferred to the Heart Institute in Cluj-Napoca, after he was operated on Monday at the Military Hospital for a knee infection. Doctors decided to keep him under observation due to his advanced age.
Florin Piersic is hospitalized at the Heart Institute in Cluj PHOTO Archive
The great actor arrived at the Heart Institute in Cluj because he also has a pacemaker, and the infection in his knee would have spread, claim medical sources, quoted by Antena 3 CNN. His condition is quite good, but he cannot be discharged for now because he needs medical supervision.
Florin Piersic, aged 88, had his last performance on April 6, 2023. Then he played the play “Străini în noapte” on the stage of the Radu Stanca Theater in Sibiu.
Among his memorable roles are the one in the TV series “Un august în flăcări”, that of the titular outlaw in “Pintea” and the one in the romantic comedy “Eu, tu și Ovidiu”, directed by Geo Saizescu. The third glorious moment is that of the 80s, when he plays the Pashopist vigilante Mărgelatu in six films, a series started with “The Road of Bones” (1980), first directed by Doru Năstase (three films), then, after his disappearance , of Gheorghe Vitanidis and Mircea Moldovan.
After the Revolution, he appeared in only three productions: “Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunărea” (2003), “Fix Alert” (2005) and “Eminescu versus Eminem” (2005), the last two directed by his son, Florin Piersic jr.
In 2009 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Transilvania Film Festival.
