Violeta Andrei
Also Known As: Виолета Андрей
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brasov, Romania
Birthday: March 21, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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In the Dust of the Stars
Overview: A retro '70s vision of the future, IN THE DUST OF THE STARS was made by the DEFA film studio. A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on this strange land.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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William the Conqueror
Overview: William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III
Genres: Documentary History War Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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Severino
Overview: After a ten-year absence, Severino returns to his tribe, the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes. The reason for his visit is to take his younger brother back with him up north. However, in his home village, Severino finds a tense and troubled situation. His father Raymundo has recently been found dead. He was on the tracks of a gang of white bandits who had stolen cattle from both Indians and settlers. A sheep breeding company is behind these criminal machinations. This company seeks to drive the Indians and settlers off the fertile land so that they can purchase it cheaply.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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The Hundred Lei Bill
Overview: Arguing with his parents, Petre, a teenager, moves at his bigger brother, Andrei, a successful actor. There he meets Dora, one of his brother's young fans. When Andrei gives the girl his attention, Petre feels abandoned and runs away without even taking the hundred lei bill his brother had given him. A car runs Petre down. When he learns about this tragic accident, Andrei realizes - while watching his own smiling face in a musical on TV - that underneath his glittering success, he lives an empty life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-11-05
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Golgotha
Overview: Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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I, You, and Ovidiu
Overview: A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-02-27
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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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Die Kreuzritter 1475
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-07-05
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Like in Films
Overview: An untalented writer attempts to achieve a "lifelike" scenario fail in a dozen policier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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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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Blue Bird
Overview: In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name "Blue Bird." The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians.
Genres: Adventure Family Western Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Sing, Cowboy, Sing
Overview: Joe and Benny are two cowboys on tour in the Wild West as a singing duo, usually without a penny in their pockets to spare. Joe is a talented rodeo-rider, which fascinates the little girl Susanne and gives her the wish to have him as a father. Her mother Maria, however, is to marry the evil, rich farmer Dave. Susanne wants to stop the wedding, so she sneaks aboard Joe and Benny's wagon to persuade them to intervene. Dave brands them as kidnappers, forcing them to flee as outlaws to one of the families tyrannized by Dave. Together, they strike back at Dave, at which point Maria sees that he's the wrong man for her.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Beyond the Sands
Overview: Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-02-18
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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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The Pale Light of Sorrow
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-10-10
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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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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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Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
Overview: The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-04-17
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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 Fourth Flock
Overview: Film based on a play by Mihail Sebastian. Three guys all fall in love with the same girl. For a month they all forget about the real world, but it all comes to an end.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-05
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Mercenaries' Trap
Overview: The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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A World Wihout Sky
Overview: A movie about miner strikes in 1292 Jiu Valley. It is made from re-cutting and combining two previous movies, "Lupeni '29" and "Golgota", that were shot much earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Brothers
Overview: Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-09-20
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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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Life Like Laughing
Overview: Three youngsters are sent to "re-education through labor" on a hydro dam construction site. They prove in the end to fare much better than some of their colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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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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Reunited
Overview: A happily married teacher finds out that a child of hers she believed dead for 10 tears is alive. On the trail of her first lover, she reconnects with her lost daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-10-14
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Arms of Afrodite
Overview: A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-03-26
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Strange Agent
Overview: This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Comoara
Overview: A local Romanian chieftain in 16th century Transylvania discovers a great treasure of Decebalus. He decides to send it for safekeeping in Moldavia, but he has to evade the Transylvanian prince and the king of Hungary, who get wind of it and want it for themselves.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-01-10
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Casa de la miezul nopții
Overview: In New Year's Eve, Dan, a pilot, picks up a stranded woman at the airport and they head together to his cabin, where they will meet unexpectedly his ex and her new partner.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-04-03
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