Eliza Petrăchescu
Also Known As: Eliza Petrăchescu , Элиза Петрэшеску
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vaslui, Romania
Birthday: June 14, 1911
Deathday: March 04, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
Overview: In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-06
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Lust for Gold
Overview: The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-10-27
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The Stone Wedding
Overview: Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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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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Felix and Otilia
Overview: In this monumental Romanian film, a large family and its many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. This movie is based on a popular novel by George Calinescu, and is similar in some ways to England's BBC television series, The Forsythe Saga, based on Galsworthy's books. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge. In one story, a poor young man is disappointed in love as his girl chooses lucre over love in selecting a mate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Memories of My Childhood
Overview: Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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A Summer Tale
Overview: The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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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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Codine
Overview: An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Postcards with Wildflowers
Overview: Laura (Carmen Galin) comes from a small town on the Danube to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. She is addressing Irina (Elena Albu) and her mother (Eliza Petrachescu) for a miscarriage following her death. Overwhelmed by a blame not belonging to her, Irina suicides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-06-24
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Family Jewels
Overview: A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1958-04-28
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Bird of the Storm
Overview: Adam, a young and poor fisherman, falls in love with Uliana, but the girl's parents want her to marry Simion. To get rid of him, Simion blames Adam of the drowning of his fellow fishermen he was with out in a storm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1957-06-27
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Last Night of Childhood
Overview: Teenager Lucian is at the life crossroads. Just graduated high school, college and first love awaits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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