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Tag Archives: Romania
Sand Cliffs (1983) Dan Pita, Victor Rebengiuc, Carmen Galin, Marin Moraru
The plot confronts an influential surgeon and a carpenter accused to have stolen the doctor’s personal belongings from the beach. Read More »
Sieranevada (2016) Cristi Puiu, Mimi Branescu, Judith State, Bogdan Dumitrache
Three days after the terrorist attack on the offices of Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and forty days after the death of his father Read More »
A Police Inspector Calls (1975) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu, Action, Crime, Drama
The Iron Guard, also called Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic motion of intense appropriate Read More »
Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula (1979) Doru Nastase, Stefan Sileanu, Ernest Maftei, Emanoil Petrut, Drama, History, War
This film is a biography of the man whose life is generally considered to have given rise to the legend of the vampire, Count Dracula. Read More »
Mircea / Proud Heritage (1989) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Serban Ionescu, Adrian Pintea, Action, Drama, History, War
Following the 1394 Battle of Rovine between the Wallachian and Ottoman armies Wallachian ruler Mircea the Elder consolidates his reign. Read More »
O noapte furtunoasa / Stormy Night (1943) Jean Georgescu, Stefan Baroi, Radu Beligan, Elena Bulandra, Comedy
Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, she does not know is that her lover is Chiriac own …
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A fost sau n-a fost / 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) Corneliu Porumboiu, Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Comedy, Drama
It’s the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Read More »
Apachen (1973) Gottfried Kolditz, Gojko Mitic, Milan Beli, Colea Rautu, Western
In Northern Mexico, the Apache tribe have negotiated an agreement, granting passage over their land to the Mexicans in exchange for food. Read More »
The Human Resources Manager (2010) Eran Riklis, Mark Ivanir, Guri Alfi, Noah Silver, Comedy, Drama
A tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel’s largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article. Read More »
Inimi cicatrizate / Scarred Hearts (2016) Radu Jude, Serban Pavlu, Gabriel Spahiu, Ivana Mladenovic, Biography, Drama
“Scarred Hearts” is inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher’s novel, which is set in 1937. It centers on Emanuel, a man in his early 20s, who spends his days at a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast Read More »
Medalia de onoare / Medal of Honor (2009) Cãlin Peter Netzer, Victor Rebengiuc, Camelia Zorlescu, Mimi Branescu, Drama
One day Ion, a 75 year old Romanian man, accidentally receives a Medal of Honor for some ‘heroic’ actions back in WW2, times he barely remembers. Read More »
Ursul (2011) Dan Chisu, Serban Pavlu, Claudiu Bleont, Gabriel Spahiu, Comedy
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. Read More »
Douã lozuri / Two Lottery Tickets (2016) Paul Negoescu, Mircea Banu, Dorian Boguta, Dragos Bucur, Comedy
Somewhere in the midst of the Romanian outback lives Dinel, a man with a moustache and curly hair who seems to be down on his luck: his customers at the garage are an unhappy bunch and his wages barely cover an after work beer – which is also the reason his wife recently left him. Read More »
Dupa dealuri / Beyond the Hills (2012) Cristian Mungiu, Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriutã, Drama
Alina and Voichita have been friends since their orphanage days. And they have been lovers since they became sexually mature. But despite their oath of mutual fidelity, Alina, who could not bear poverty any more, emigrated to Germany where she became a barmaid.
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