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Theodor Halacu-Nicon () is a Romanian artist. He became known through TV films as good guys (2005), Three brothers of trouble (2006), 17 - A Story About Destiny (2008) and the Neighborhood Story (2008).

Youth

In 1975, his parents, Vasile Halacu and Elena Nicon, both professional dancers, though separated, left the country, like many other Romanians, due to communist oppression in Romania at the time. Their decision disadvantaged the little artist, becoming a kind of "traitor" of the system and given his continued relationship with the fugitives, he was excluded from all youth organizations at the time, pioneers, UTC etc. In 1987, he was aware that his existence would be even more difficult, he formally filed his papers to leave the country to reunite the family with the direction of Cyprus where his mother had already been married since 1980. In 1988, after finishing high school, at the age of 18, he received the order of incorporation into the army, with the express directive: "Only Units for Work," military units known at the time in popular terms as "Dilibau," special units for those not adapted to the system. These units provided hard work at the Danube - Black Sea Canal, as well as other projects of the same scale of the communist system. With any luck and taking advantage of the corrupt system, he manages to delay his incorporation for another year, during which time the departure papers were completed and in March 1989 he arrives in Cyprus, Limassol, where he first meets his mother after 14 years.

After several months, in the autumn of 1989, he returned to Bucharest to study design at the "Nicolae Grigorescu Academy of Arts," now known as the National University of Arts Bucharest. In 1990, as a member of the League of Students, he participated in the exhibition of Timișoara Proclamation on the facade of Bucharest University building, which brings him expulsion. After the first arrival of the miners in Bucharest, he renounced any political involvement. With the help of teachers who were against the decisions of those who decided to expel him, he manages to transfer himself even before the expulsion took place, at the university painting station but is obliged to give again all theoretical and practical examinations to equate his courses, although these were the same courses whose exams had previously promoted them. Until the end of the four years of study he manages to match all his exams, except for the history exam of the Arts whose teacher, Razvan Theodorescu, refuses to receive it for re-examination. For this reason, he was not accepted on his Bachelor's exam when he graduated.

Pre-cinematography period

In 1994, upon returning to Cyprus, disappointed and defeated finally by the new post-communist system, he began to exhibit painting works. Also in 1994, it opens its own art gallery "L'workshop des artes" - Limassol, then, nostalgic after its brief experience in 1993 as Director S