Lazăr Vrabie
Also Known As: Lazăr Vrabie, Лазэр Врабие
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Adult: No
Birthday: August 24, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 14, 1974
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The Waves of the Danube
Overview: Ciulei’s second feature recalls the best of Fritz Lang and Michael Curtiz in its WWII-era espionage tale, set on a barge transporting Nazi munitions up the Danube. Ciulei himself givers a superb performance as Mihai, the barge captain forced to navigate the heavily mined waters along with his new bride, Ana (Irina Petrescu). As the journey wears on, Mihai becomes increasingly suspicious of one of his crew, ex-convict Toma (Lazar Vrabie), and his intentions towards Ana. But Toma has a far graver—and potentially deadly—secret to conceal.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-05-24
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Babusca's Adventures
Overview: In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Filip the Kind
Overview: Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-02-17
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The Thirst
Overview: The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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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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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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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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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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The Castellans
Overview: Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural monument, so an expert is summoned, but foolish beliefs betray them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-09-11
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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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Eruption
Overview: The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Mingea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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