---
name: "Petru Popescu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/petru-popescu"
fi1m_id: "petru-popescu"
imdb_id: "nm0691246"
tmdb_id: 58811
wikidata_id: "Q7179181"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 February 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:15:34.902143+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Petru Popescu

## Identity

Petru Popescu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/petru-popescu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** petru-popescu
- **IMDb ID:** nm0691246
- **TMDB ID:** 58811
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7179181
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru_Popescu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7179181, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0691246/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58811

Writer. Born 1 February 1944 in Bucharest.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 February 1944, Bucharest
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru_Popescu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7179181, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0691246/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58811

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Last Wave*](https://film.one/film/the-last-wave.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Petru Popescu is a Romanian-American writer, screenwriter and director. Born in Bucharest in 1944, he was an established novelist in Romania before defecting in the mid-1970s. He studied at the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies and settled in the United States.

His screenwriting credits include the 1977 Australian film *The Last Wave*, co-written with Peter Weir and Tony Morphett, and uncredited work on *Friday the 13th Part III* (1982). He also wrote for television series such as *Emma: Queen of the South Seas* (1988) and the TV film *Nobody's Children* (1994). Popescu directed *Death of an Angel* (1986).

As an author he is known for English-language novels including *Almost Adam* and *Amazon Beaming*. He is married to screenwriter Iris Friedman.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Last Wave* (1977), Fi1m 77, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-wave.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bamse and the World's Smallest Adventure* (2023), Storyboard Artist
- *Nobody's Children* (1994), Writer
- *Emma: Queen of the South Seas* (1988), series, Teleplay
- *Death of an Angel* (1986), Writer, Director
- *Obsessive Love* (1984), Story, Teleplay
- *Friday the 13th Part III* (1982), Author
- *The Last Wave* (1977), Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-wave.md)
- *Through Dusky Ways* (1972), Writer

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