Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a “proper”, bourgeois middle-class family. Read More »
Tag Archives: Romania
Speak well about the dead AKA Despre morti numai de bine (2005) Claudiu Romila, Crenguta Hariton, Stefan Sileanu, Tomi Cristin
The death of the senator son Panait (Stefan Sileanu) is politically dangerous for him and for his party. Read More »
The Snails’ Senator AKA Senatorul melcilor (1995) Mircea Daneliuc, Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Clara Voda
The Senator feels fine. He has just inaugurated a windmill and now he feels like having snails for dinner. Read More »
Return from Hell AKA Intoarcerea din iad (1983) Nicolae Margineanu, Constantin Brînzea, Maria Ploae, Remus Margineanu
A peasant returns to his village as a rich man. Here he finds that he still has feelings for his ex-girlfriend Read More »
With Clean Hands AKA Cu mâinile curate (1972) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Alexandru Dobrescu
A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters. Read More »
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
Modigliani (2004) Mick Davis, Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Read More »
The Waves of the Danube AKA Valurile Dunarii (1960) Liviu Ciulei, Lazar Vrabie, Irina Petrescu
Mihai leads members of the local resistance movement in an attack on a barge Read More »
The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians AKA Profetul, aurul si Ardelenii (1978) Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iulian Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu
Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. Read More »
Forest of the Hanged AKA Padurea spânzuratilor (1965) Liviu Ciulei, Victor Rebengiuc, Stefan Ciubotarasu
In 1916 ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is a Lieutenant in the Habsburg Army Read More »