Toma Caragiu
Also Known As: Тома Караджиу
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ploieşti, Prahova, România
Adult: No
Birthday: August 21, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 04, 1977
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Poveste sentimentala

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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-05-28
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Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea

Overview: Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In

Overview: Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

Overview: The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-07-26
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Penelope's Condition

Overview: A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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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 Actor and the Savages

Overview: Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-20
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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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The Poseidon Explosion

Overview: A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-07-01
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The Outlaws of Sevenhorses

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Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-03-27
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White Trial

Overview: Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend. Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen Barbu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-02-14
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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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Tufă de Veneția

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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-01-10
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The Dowry of Lady Ralu

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Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-04-09
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Singurătatea florilor

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-02-09
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Bariera

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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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The Mace with Three Seals

Overview: At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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Ciprian Porumbescu

Overview: This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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The Great Solitary

Overview: Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-09-25
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Nufărul roșu

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1956-03-31
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I Don't Want to Get Married

Overview: In a textile factory, the cultural supervisor falls in love with a typist. To impress her, he pretends to be friends with a famous composer whose operetta was to be performed by the company's artistic brigade. However, the typist, an uneducated woman, sees him only as a means to become the protected one of an influential person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Outlaws

Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-04-21
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The Revenge of the Outlaws

Overview: Second 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.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1968-04-23
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The Making of the World

Overview: Around the nationalization in 1948, a worker's daughter, as a student, is attracted by the social life offered by a breed horse owner. The relationship will sour by the cruelty with which he kills the horses, rather then give them away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Săptămâna nebunilor

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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-07-11
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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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We Do Not Film Just for Fun

Overview: This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Operation 'The Monster'

Overview: A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Streets Have Memories

Overview: During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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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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Merriment Ward

Overview: How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-10-12
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Three Secret Letters

Overview: A director of a shipyard abusively fires a foreman who has opposing ideas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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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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Serenade for the 12th Floor

Overview: Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-12-27
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The Teacher's Correspondence

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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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Love Begins on Friday

Overview: A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Chief of the Souls Sector

Overview: Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-06-18
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K.O.

Overview: A newly hired engineer is also an amateur boxing star. He also dreams of becoming an actor. He is pushed in different directions, he also wants to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Gloria nu cîntă

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Genres: Music
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur

Overview: Collection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Pisciculture

Overview: A comedy that starts from a simple gag, one with social connotations, though (“They brought fish at Leonida’s!”), exploring the self-ironical and surreal potential of the state of things with fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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