Silviu Stănculescu
Also Known As: Silviu Stanculescu, Сильвиу Стэнкулеску
Biography: Silviu Stănculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈsilvju stəŋkuˈlesku]; 24 January 1932 - 23 October 1998) was a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1960 to 1998. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Timisoara, Timis, Romania
Birthday: January 24, 1932
Deathday: October 23, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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François Villon: The Maverick Poet
Overview: The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he supported the free expression of people in a coercive climate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Proud Heritage
Overview: After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.
Genres: History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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Nobody's Children
Overview: An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-03
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No Trespassing
Overview: The film follows the stories of a handful of characters: Andrei (Radescu), who finds himself in conflict with his peers; Colonel Maxineanu (Stanculescu), the school commander; and Adrian (Mavrodineanu), a young villager who is inspired by the bravery of the cadets. The Hungarians arrive and launch a series of attacks against the Romanians. The Axis are pushed back again and again, despite superior numbers and weaponry. At the end of the film, they launch one last attack, which seems to momentarily begin breaking through. Just at that moment, reinforcements from the Soviet and Romanian armies arrive, pushing the Hungarians back.
Genres: War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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You Look Wild
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-05-11
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The third deadly jump
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-07-21
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Intoarcerea Vlasinilor
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Genres: History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-05-21
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Złoty pociąg
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Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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Camera alba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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Four Steps Away From Infinity
Overview: A young officer of the Romanian Army performs a sabotage mission against the Nazi regime. Seriously wounded, the officer can not reach the fixed place and finds shelter in a surgeon's home.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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The Paratroopers
Overview: A harsh colonel of paratroopers neglects his family after falling in love with a chess player, the sister of one of his paratroopers that got injured because of the jumping punishment given by him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-02
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Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula
Overview: Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-08
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The High schoolers
Overview: The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1986-05-01
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Operation 'The Bus'
Overview: In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-01-16
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The Last Assault
Overview: The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
Genres: War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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For Motherland
Overview: 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.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-05-07
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State of Things
Overview: A story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1995-12-08
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The Beech Forest
Overview: In August 1944 Romania, a group of telephone operators are caught in the events in a new center placed in a forest to evade bombardment.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-08-17
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Vlashins' Leaving
Overview: In 18th century Hapsburg ruled Transilvania the Romanian shepherds from the village of Vlașini face the oppression and injustice of imperial authorities, being forced to flee from their place of birth or pay tribute to the Germans of Hermannstadt for grazing sheep on their own pastures.
Genres: Drama
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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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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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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Sentimental Summer
Overview: The favorite plot for communist propagandists: a new agronomist comes in the village and gets in conflict with the local cooperative president. Everything ends well. Sprinkled with jokes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1986-01-27
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The Snowstorm
Overview: The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-11-19
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The Escape
Overview: Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-08-18
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The Man in the Overcoat
Overview: Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Conspiracy
Overview: A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-07-10
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Your Part of the Blame
Overview: This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organization tries to convince him to improve his skills become a qualified worker but he refuses saying that he soon wants to go back to his village and be a shepherd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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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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Close to Sun
Overview: Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel-man, having Mihai Solca - a sort of communist industrial hero- as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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The Last Night of Loneliness
Overview: The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Across de Lifting Gate
Overview: Vulpașin is desperatley in love with Nastasia, but she is partial to Luca, which works at a factory outside the slum they live in ("accros the lifting gate").
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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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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At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Overview: In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-12-08
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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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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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Uncertain Roads
Overview: Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Mountains in Flames
Overview: 1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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Prides
Overview: Professor Cristian conducts research on a citostatic. He is still dealing though with the unjust condemning he suffered in the 50s. Some of the people around him try to bring him down with same type of accusations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-04-12
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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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Niște băieți grozavi
Overview: A farm team-leader, Tudor, is accused for having failed the harvesting. Unhappy with what he considers an unfair verdict, he leaves the farm and moves to another village, getting a job as an ordinary worker in another farm. At first, he is upset by the very severe leader of that team, Mihai, but soon he discovers that his hard style is necessary to keep the work in good order and face all the problems. He also finds a bunch of great friends (the "Swell Guys" / "...baieti grozavi" in the title) and learns in what had consisted his own past mistakes. —Mihnea Columbeanu
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Meurtres par procuration
Overview: Lionel suffers from severe memory loss as a result of an accident. Inspector Corona accuses him of the brutal murder of a law student with whom he had a relationship.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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