Emil Botta
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 17, 1911
Deathday: July 24, 1977
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Reconstruction
1968-01-01
Reconstruction
Overview: A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Poveste sentimentala
1962-05-28
Poveste sentimentala
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-05-28
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Forest of the Hanged
1965-03-16
Forest of the Hanged
Overview: In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
Genres: Drama History War Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-03-16
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The Column
1968-10-18
The Column
Overview: The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1968-10-18
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The White Moor
1965-07-01
The White Moor
Overview: Adapted from a folk legend, it tells the story of a bad-tempered nobleman and his chronically useless younger son - who dreams of being the mythical hero Harap Alb.
Genres: History Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Steps to the Moon
1963-01-01
Steps to the Moon
Overview: An aspiring astronaut prepares his ship for take-off, plugs in a razor and causes a blackout. In the deep darkness the boy imagines himself meeting the literary characters who have enthralled readers past with their stories of space travel.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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A Bomb Was Stolen
1962-01-23
A Bomb Was Stolen
Overview: A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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The Uprising
1966-06-08
The Uprising
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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The Dacians
1967-05-31
The Dacians
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Beyond the Sands
1974-02-18
Beyond the Sands
Overview: Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-02-18
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Life Doesn't Spare
1959-02-03
Life Doesn't Spare
Overview: Dying in the trenches during World War II, Stefan looks back at his own life and that of his father. Through his memories, the film presents a story that embraces two generations and various eras. It is a film about the tragedy of lives dragged into conflicts against their will, of lives violently ruined or ended – a story about the devastating consequences of war. Interweaving past and present, the flashback narrative depicts the war as a perpetual situation where the “little people” always turn out to be on the losing side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1959-02-03
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Underneath the Surface
1967-10-31
Underneath the Surface
Overview: A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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Family Jewels
1958-04-28
Family Jewels
Overview: A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1958-04-28
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Chess to the King
1966-01-26
Chess to the King
Overview: When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-01-26
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The Premiere
1976-11-08
The Premiere
Overview: In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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Faust XX
1966-12-12
Faust XX
Overview: A terminally ill professor gets an immoral offer.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-12-12
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