Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 03, 1925
Deathday: September 19, 1996
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In the Dust of the Stars
1976-07-01
In the Dust of the Stars
Overview: A retro '70s vision of the future, IN THE DUST OF THE STARS was made by the DEFA film studio. A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on this strange land.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Bucharest Identity Card
1982-01-01
Bucharest Identity Card
Overview: A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Who Is Going to Open the Door?
1967-02-03
Who Is Going to Open the Door?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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With Clean Hands
1972-10-29
With Clean Hands
Overview: A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-10-29
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A Police Inspector Calls
1974-04-01
A Police Inspector Calls
Overview: 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...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
1972-01-24
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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The Youth Elixir
1975-01-01
The Youth Elixir
Overview: An old geriatrics professor accidentally discovers after a high-school reunion a potion that can rejuvenate anybody and uses it on him and his friends. They all go their new youthful ways but, for most of them, things don't go according to plan.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Secret of Bacchus
1984-03-05
The Secret of Bacchus
Overview: Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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Accident
1977-01-24
Accident
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-01-24
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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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Son of the Mountains
1981-06-01
Son of the Mountains
Overview: An espionage agency is looking to kidnap Alina, the daughter of the Romanian engineer Muresan, to make her father divulge important secrets. On a trip, Muresan's wife and daughter know a young tourist who accompanies them up to a point where they are hosted by Matthew, a very agile little boy, hard-hitting the mountain.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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Darclée
1960-11-29
Darclée
Overview: In this undistinguished drama, Darclee (Silvia Popovici) 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. Matei Jacob directs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-11-29
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Camera alba
1965-12-29
Camera alba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
1979-02-05
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-02-05
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Alarm in the Delta
1976-01-05
Alarm in the Delta
Overview: During the 1970s a foreign smuggler is taking hostages and threatening to sabotage a river pumping station if he is not aided in his attempt to smuggle ancient artifacts out of Romania.Two young local boys foil his plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-01-05
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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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Hurry Slowly
1981-01-01
Hurry Slowly
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Hello? Wrong Number
1958-12-28
Hello? Wrong Number
Overview: A music school student immersed in the music that he loves. One time he happens to dial a wrong number, thus starting an adventure in which he will find love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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Titanic Waltz
1965-01-25
Titanic Waltz
Overview: Based on a play by Tudor Mușatescu, Titanic Vals is the essence of Romanian genius in comedy, with amazing performances and the beautiful absurd of the quotidian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-01-25
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The Prodigal Father
1974-09-23
The Prodigal Father
Overview: This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-09-23
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Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
1972-04-17
Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
Overview: The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-04-17
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Păcală
1974-01-09
Păcală
Overview: Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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The Migrant Birds Are Coming
1984-03-25
The Migrant Birds Are Coming
Overview: In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-03-25
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September
1978-04-03
September
Overview: After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best one would be his father in Bucharest. To get there, he steals a motorcycle. In Bucharest he meets store clerk Anișoara, and he invites her to a seaside escapade. Their one day of love and future optimism is ended abruptly by a tragic motorcycle accident.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-04-03
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The Duel
1981-06-14
The Duel
Overview: Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-06-14
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The Man Next to You
1962-12-25
The Man Next to You
Overview: A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she sacrifices her career to follow him to a big project away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-12-25
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Snowfall Season
1966-01-01
Snowfall Season
Overview: Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Two Men for One Death
1970-03-09
Two Men for One Death
Overview: The story of a love triangle, in which a romanian and a hungarian love the same woman. Happening during WWII, the two hate each other. The movie was banned shortly after the release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1970-03-09
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The Brothers
1971-09-20
The Brothers
Overview: Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-09-20
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The Moment
1979-01-01
The Moment
Overview: This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Hazelnut Chocolate
1979-04-02
Hazelnut Chocolate
Overview: Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-04-02
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Romantic Destinies
1981-01-01
Romantic Destinies
Overview: On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Porto-Franco
1961-12-28
Porto-Franco
Overview: The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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The Teacher's Correspondence
1966-01-09
The Teacher's Correspondence
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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Ora zero
1979-01-01
Ora zero
Overview: In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Herodot's Mystery
1976-01-01
Herodot's Mystery
Overview: In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman settlement Lisidava. They are trying to locate it.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Asediul
1971-08-21
Asediul
Overview: A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-21
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The Major and Death
1967-06-19
The Major and Death
Overview: A police major is investigating a gangster.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-06-19
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Alone Amongst Friends
1979-01-01
Alone Amongst Friends
Overview: A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Gloria nu cîntă
1977-05-16
Gloria nu cîntă
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Comoara din Vadul Vechi
1965-06-11
Comoara din Vadul Vechi
Overview: In a poverty stricken village in 1947 Moldavia, the obsession for getting rich of Prisac turns the community against him. Based on "La Răzeși" (Yeomans) novel by Valeriu Emil Galan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-06-11
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Dănilă Prepeleac
1996-01-01
Dănilă Prepeleac
Overview: It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Hussy
1978-05-06
The Hussy
Overview: An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.
Genres: Western Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-06
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Politica cu… delicatese
1964-04-05
Politica cu… delicatese
Overview: Adapted from the sketch by Ion Luca Caragiale. A fine irony on pre-war politicism, which manages, through gastronomic means, to ridicule an entire political class.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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