Victoria Ivanovna Barbă[1] (also Barbe; 19 September 1926 – 3 May 2020; Russian: Виктория Ивановна Барбэ) was a Moldovan animated film director, focused on movies for children.
Having been born in modern Russia, she studied in Saint Petersburg and then in Chișinău, today in Moldova.
[2] Barbă studied in the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, today in Russia) and in the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical Institute in Chișinău (today in Moldova).
During her career, Barbă received 98 diplomas, 19 awards and 8 gold medals at Soviet and Moldovan film festivals.
[2] Her filmography includes the following films: Puiul de cocostârc în colivie ("The Baby Stork in a Cage", 1979), Mărțișor – sărbătoarea primăverii, ("Mărțișor – the Feast of Spring", 1980), Copii, soarele și zăpada ("Children, Sun and Snow", 1981), În jurul lumii ("Around the World", 1982), Opriți timpul ("Stop Time", 1982), Dragoste de țară ("Love to the Country", 1983), Hora de stele ("Hora of Stars", 1985), Ziua de naștere a Carolinei ("Carolina's Birthday", 1986), Căderea frunzelor ("Fall of the Leaves", 1987), Podul de stele ("Bridge of Stars", 1987), Fantezie cosmică ("Cosmic Fantasy", 1989), Iepurașul din ianuarie ("The January Rabbit", 1991).