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name: "Călin Papură"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/calin-papura"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "24 February 1950"
died: "21 August 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T13:30:10.550232+00:00"
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# Călin Papură

Production designer. Born 24 February 1950 in Bucharest. Died 21 August 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 24 February 1950, Bucharest
- **Died:** 21 August 2019

## Biography

Călin Papură (1950–2019) was a Romanian production designer, art director and set decorator. Born in Bucharest, he began working in the film industry in the early 1970s as an assistant scenographer at the Bucharest film studio before taking lead production design roles from the mid-1980s onwards.

Papură contributed to more than sixty films and television productions. His credits include production design on *Beyond the Hills* (2012), *Youth Without Youth* (2007), *The Rest Is Silence* (2007) and *The Oak* (1992), as well as earlier work as assistant art director on *High Tension* (2003) and set decoration on *Code Unknown* (2000). He received several Romanian awards for art direction, including ACIN prizes in 1985 and UCIN awards in 1994–95 and 2008.

*Sources: imdb.com, aarc.ro.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Beyond the Hills* (2012), Fi1m 82, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/beyond-the-hills.md)

## Also known for

- *High Tension* (2003), Assistant Art Director
- *Code Unknown* (2000), Set Decoration
- *Youth Without Youth* (2007), Production Design
- *Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave* (2005), Production Design
- *House of Voices* (2004), Art Direction
- *The Oak* (1992), Production Design
- *Taboo* (2002), Production Design
- *Next Stop Paradise* (1998), Production Design, Art Direction

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