Octavian Cotescu
Also Known As: Октавиан Котеску
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dorohoi, Botoşani, Romania
Birthday: February 14, 1931
Deathday: August 22, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Story of the Voyages
Overview: In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-09-05
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Boga Sisters
Overview: This is about the lives of three sisters during the second World War in Romania. Based on the homonymous play by Horia Lovinescu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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The Hope
Overview: The film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers' rights and organizer of the trade union movement in Romania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Through Dusky Ways
Overview: When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but will she be able to seize this new oportunity for happiness?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-02
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Circus Performers
Overview: A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-09-24
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A Lost Letter
Overview: The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-06-07
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Autumn of the Goslings
Overview: The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by most of the people in the village, most of them believing that neither of them will stay there. However they will be proved wrong as the young graduates, except the French teacher, want to stay there,do their job the best they know how and try to get used to the ways of that community . After you see this movie you can't help loving all the characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-09
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Miezul fierbinte al painii
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Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Repeated Wedding
Overview: This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-10-28
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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 Carpathian Castle
Overview: In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-03-23
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Circus Performers at the North Pole
Overview: In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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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 Green Grass of Home
Overview: After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Overview: A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-01-16
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A Swan in Winter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-12-05
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Poor Ioanide
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-04-28
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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 Saturday Night Dance
Overview: Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1968-05-05
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Sword Swallower
Overview: The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-04-19
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The Castle of the Condemned
Overview: After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1970-05-04
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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Overview: Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-04-14
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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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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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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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Iarna bobocilor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Aurel Vlaicu
Overview: Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-06-13
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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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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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Promisses
Overview: Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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A Spare Moment
Overview: Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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The Computer Testifies
Overview: Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Power and The Truth
Overview: This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-02-15
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The Trap
Overview: After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-01-07
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Magic Circle
Overview: Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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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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Blackmail
Overview: A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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The Man We Need
Overview: A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-11-16
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A Night Long Love
Overview: A psychological movie about the life of three sisters in a Romanian village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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 Court Adjourns the Sentencing
Overview: A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-06-07
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Shootings Under the Moonlight
Overview: During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Hidden Mountain
Overview: A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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Together Again
Overview: An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-12-11
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Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Overview: A police officer is investigating the disappearance of a colleague's young boy. His key seems to be the "dark skinned" friend of the boy about whom nobody cares, including the police.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Tragic Vacation
Overview: During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-05-21
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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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Stay with You
Overview: A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Escapada
Overview: A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-05-09
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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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Prea cald pentru luna mai
Overview: At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Tanta si Costel - Iubirea e un lucru foarte mare
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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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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