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Blanca (1955)
Character: Craiul
Adaptation after Fat Frumos din tei by Mihai Eminescu
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Detașamentul "Concordia" (1981)
Character: Gl. Matei
A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII
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Brațele Afroditei (1979)
Character: Marin
A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.
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Puterea și adevărul (1972)
Character: Petre Petrescu
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
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Rămân cu tine (1982)
Character: Alecu
A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.
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Casa dintre cîmpuri (1980)
Character: Vasile Axente
Fresh out of university, agricultural engineer Voica Teodorescu returns to her native village where she joins a local team of engineers in the planning of a dam and an irrigation mega project.Although Voica is engaged to be married to Ilarie she also is romantically attracted to local engineer Radu. Radu doesn't agree with local boss Vasile Axente's management style and deems Vasile incompetent.Therefore, Radu tries to form an alliance with the village vice-mayor Dumitru Vardaru but when a large sum of money from the public works budget goes missing Radu is investigated by authorities for embezzlement of public funds.His relationship with Voica and the villagers gets sourly tested.
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Camera alba (1965)
Character: Simion
A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the consequences of an accident and the implications that medicine catalogs in the name of science.
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Un petic de cer (1984)
Character: Ministrul
The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal life.
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Ana și hoțul (1981)
Character: Crijan
A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.
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Trei zile și trei nopți (1976)
Character: Grigorescu
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
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Imposibila iubire (1984)
Character: Dan
Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by the engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".
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Alarmă în munți (1955)
Character: N/A
An spy film set in a mountainous border area. The grenadiers are confronted with spies parachuted into Romania to retrieve and carry abroad the secret documents of a forestry combine.
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Sfântul Mitică Blajinul (1982)
Character: Ion Cristea
A film adaptation of Aurel Baranga. A satire that targets the careerism, licentiousness and imposture of some people with "positions of responsibility", who make their position a means of parvenire.
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Celebrul 702 (1962)
Character: N/A
In the imaginary country of "Allergica", a group of gangsters have made a fat hit by pinning the blame on the Kid, who awaits execution in the terrible "Bing-Bing" prison. At the last moment the electric chair is unplugged because the lawyer has persuaded the doomed man to dictate his gangster memoirs for the use of the Books & Books publishing house. Its director offers him a "bonus to life" only if he plays along. But the Kid prefers to write about truth, people and love.
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Pisica de mare (1964)
Character: N/A
The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.
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Doctor fără voie (1975)
Character: N/A
Sganarelle, mistakenly considered a famous doctor because of a prank, is brought in M. Geronte's house to cure his daughter, who went mute overnight.
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Das Ding im Schloß (1979)
Character: Wenzel
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth.
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Stejar, extremă urgență (1973)
Character: Toma
The secret plan "Margareta II", drawn up by the German General Staff for the intervention of German troops in case of Romania's exit from the war, is discovered by the army and the patriotic forces through a captain who was a schoolmate of the German officer in charge of completing the plan. In the end, the two officers will fight each other, each leading his own tank unit.
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Tată de duminică (1975)
Character: inginerul automecanic Mircea Danu
Mircea, an auto-mechanic engineer who has left his wife, attends his son's pioneering Sunday go-kart rallies. There he meets the father of his colleague and rival, a prosecutor. The situation becomes tense and a work accident is investigated by the prosecutor himself...
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Das Licht auf dem Galgen (1976)
Character: Debuisson
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the island very well, his old friend Sasportas, and the sailor Galloudec. After having established contact with the fragmented rebel groups, they receive the surprising news of Napoleon′s takeover in France. Whereas Debuisson, who by now has gotten used to his role as a rich heir, wants to wait for new instructions from home, his companions are determined to press ahead with the revolt. When a slave kills a British guard, the situation escalates.
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Porțile albastre ale orașului (1974)
Character: Col. Cristescu
Freshly released from a military hospital where he had been treated for an injury inflicted by a subordinate, Second Lieutenant Roșu, a rough but fair man, returns to command the anti-aircraft artillery battery he was leading. In the days following the turn of the guns against the Hitlerites, the unit would fight heroically, destroying German fighter planes taking off from Otopeni airport. The turn of events changed the subordinates' view of Rosu.
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Duios Anastasia trecea (1980)
Character: Costaiche
A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill a Serbian, and throw his body into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it. Anastasia refuses to obey the order…
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Împușcături sub clar de lună (1977)
Character: Badea Aron
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
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Mușchetarul român (1975)
Character: The Sultan Ahmed
During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder.
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Răscoala (1966)
Character: Comandantul trupelor
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
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Neamul Șoimăreștilor (1965)
Character: Simion Bârnovă
Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
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Pentru Patrie (1977)
Character: General Alexandru Cernat
In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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Tudor (1963)
Character: Gîrbea fiul
Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians.
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Melodii, melodii (1978)
Character: Nea Marin
A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.
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Capcana mercenarilor (1982)
Character: Frank
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman
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Cantemir (1975)
Character: Sultanul Ahmed
Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empire" and the jewels of the ruler's wife.
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Haiducii (1966)
Character: Sârbu
First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.
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Războiul domnițelor (1970)
Character: Ștefan
Lured by the treasure of Moldavia and supplies, Sobieski, king of the Poles, orders the attack on the fortress of Neamț, and Captain Ghinda organizes the betrayal. In view of the overwhelming majority of the lezs, they send the young Ioana to the king, but the traitor Ghinda also covets her. And so, in the Moldavian camp, new idylls and intrigues keep brewing until all that is left of the fortress are the ruins.
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Revanșa (1978)
Character: Pârvu
"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together with the communist that fight to gain power, Moldovan takes out his enemies one by one.
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Das verschollene Inka-Gold (1978)
Character: Yakata
An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.
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Șantaj (1981)
Character: Colonel
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
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Accident (1977)
Character: Colonel de Militie
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.
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Aventurile lui Babusca (1973)
Character: One-eye
In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
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Darclée (1960)
Character: N/A
Darclee is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want.
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Ciprian Porumbescu (1973)
Character: profesorul Carol Miculi
This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.
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Osânda (1976)
Character: țăranul Manolache Preda
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
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Carol I (2009)
Character: Alexandru Cernat
The last days of the first Romanian king, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the tough decisions he had to make in the summer of 1914 in order to please both Romanian Parliament and his relatives from the German Empire.
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Mihail, cîine de circ (1979)
Character: N/A
The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here he was picked up by the steward of the schooner McCambo, Dag Daughtry. Dag decided to sell the purebred dog at the nearest port, secretly brought Michael onto the schooner and hid him in his cabin. Michael was given another name. He became very attached to his new owner, with whom he would have to go through many happy and sad days, break up after a series of dramatic events and meet again.
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Nea Mărin miliardar (1979)
Character: Nea Mărin / Mr. Juvett
At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.
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Ultimul cartuș (1973)
Character: fratele lui Semaca
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, Commissioner Roman wants to see his murderer, a very powerful local mafia and smuggler, Mr. Semaca, acquitted by the court for lack of evidence, punished. But before dealing with Semaca, Roman receives a new mission, this time undercover: the capture of a German spy still active in the country, suspected to be hiding in a monastery. In this mission, Commissioner Roman also has a helper, Oarca, a former underwriter who proves good at everything and especially at car chases on serpentine...
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Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1979)
Character: Gral. Dragalina
The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1.
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Setea (1960)
Character: Adam Adam
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
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Columna (1968)
Character: regele dac Decebal
The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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Nemuritorii (1974)
Character: Dumitru
It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
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Ulzana (1974)
Character: General Crook
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.
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Mihai Viteazul (1971)
Character: Mihai Viteazul
An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.
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Atunci i-am condamnat pe toți la moarte (1972)
Character: Ipu
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
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Un comisar acuză (1974)
Character: Ion Pîrvu
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...
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Dacii (1967)
Character: Decebal
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
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Săgeata căpitanului Ion (1973)
Character: Ali Beg
In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Handsome.
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Wilhelm Cuceritorul (1982)
Character: N/A
William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III
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