Victor Rebengiuc
Also Known As: Виктор Ребенджук, Виктор Ребенджюк
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Victor Rebengiuc (known in full as Victor-George Rebengiuc; born February 10, 1933) is an award-winning Romanian film and stage actor, also known as a civil society activist. Since 1957, he has been a member of the Bulandra Theater company, acting in more than 200 roles on that stage alone. Having had his breakthrough performance with Liviu Ciulei's The Forest of the Hanged, Rebengiuc became a major figure in Romanian cinema, and became especially known for his 1986 appearance in Stere Gulea's Moromeţii. He also starred in films by Dan Piţa (Tănase Scatiu; Dreptate în lanţuri; Faleze de nisip; The Man of the Day) and Lucian Pintilie (De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?; Balanţa; Too Late; Last Stop Paradise; Niki and Flo; Tertium non datur). Rebengiuc was celebrated for his stage performances, appearing in plays directed by, among others, Ciulei, Radu Penciulescu, Andrei Şerban, Cătălina Buzoianu, Yuri Kordonsky, Gábor Tompa and Alexandru Dabija. The former husband of actress Anca Vereşti, he is married to Mariana Mihuţ, his Bulandra colleague. Rebengiuc's life under the communist regime provided him an anti-communist perspective, and some of his 1980s films were censored or banned by the country's officials. In 1989, he took part in the Romanian Revolution, when he was among the people who stormed into the Romanian Television building and broadcast the downfall of Nicolae Ceauşescu and an end to communist rule. Rebengiuc subsequently spoke out against political forces he believes stand for the regime's legacy in modern society, and called for the retrospective condemnation of communism. As a public figure, he has had a brief career in politics, and, since the mid-1990s, endorses non-governmental organizations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Victor Rebengiuc, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucureşti, Romania
Birthday: February 10, 1933
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Gender: Male
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Mîndrie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1961-03-31
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The Moromete Family
Overview: Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-09-28
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The Oak
Overview: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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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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Tuesday, After Christmas
Overview: Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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The Forest Woman
Overview: Busuioc (Victor Rebengiuc), un taran bogat din Curtici isi trimite fiul Iorgovan (Adrian Pintea), impreuna cu servitorul Sofron (Serban Ionescu) in satul vecin pentru a gasi oameni la munca campului. Iorgovan este indragostit de Simina (Manuela Harabor), fiica unui taran sarac, dintr-un sat de munte, in cautarea careia pleaca. Cum si Simina ii impartaseste sentimentele ea accepta sa vina la culesul recoltei impreuna cu tatal sau. Sentimentele lui Iorgovan sunt confuze, este slab si sfasiat intre dragostea sincera pentru Simina si obstacolul prejudecatilor si diferentelor de pozitie sociala. In acest timp Sofron, tanarul servitor al acestuia, se indragosteste la randu-i de Simina. Infruntarea dintre cei doi pretendenti devine din ce in ce mai acuta, fapt care va limpezi atitudinea fiecaruia fata de femeia pe care amandoi o iubesc.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Niki and Flo
Overview: In this very black comedy about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage, Niki is a former colonel in the Romanian army whose daughter is married to the son of Flo, an aging Bohemian who is full of schemes for the “new” Romania. As the young couple prepares to emigrate to the U.S., Niki is obliged to interact with Flo, whom he finds totally unbearable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
Overview: Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-09-26
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Medal of Honor
Overview: Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
Overview: Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-02-12
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Forest of the Hanged
Overview: In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
Genres: Drama History War Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-03-16
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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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Cigarettes and Coffee
Overview: The father, fired two years before retirement, wants to get rehired, requiring the support of his son. The action takes place in a restaurant in Bucharest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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Zestrea
Overview: Young engineer Doru is called to the Prosecutor's Office and questioned on his wife's unlawful ways of making money. Soon he'll learn about her true character and he'll regret having broken up with Livia, a woman who truly loved him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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Chained Justice
Overview: Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-09-10
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The Japanese Dog
Overview: When a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother's death and father's plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say.
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Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Aferim!
Overview: Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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The Secret of the Secret Weapon
Overview: In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them. She favors a peaceful knight, while her father and his advisors like the ones carrying around a lot of weapons.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Cortul
Overview: In the yard of a foreign embassy in Bucharest, four men are digging in search of a gas leak from a pipe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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A Love Story, Lindenfeld
Overview: Klaus Bernath, a wealthy German citizen, decides, after many years, to visit his birthplace, of the Banat Swabian village Lindenfeld, in Romania. Since the village has been deserted for many decades, his son and his biographer decide to reconstruct the whole space from scratch and present it as a populated place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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Milk, No Sugar
Overview: In an attempt to come to terms with his life, Anton has one last shot at reconciliation with his thoughts and, therefore, with himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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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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Last Stop Paradise
Overview: Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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Sand Cliffs
Overview: The plot confronts an influential surgeon and a carpenter accused to have stolen the doctor's personal belongings from the beach. The neurotic doctor involves himself in the inquiry, ultimately directing the interrogation. The burglary victim, Theodor Hristea, a surgeon at the peak of his career and social life, self-confident and well connected, his girlfriend, Cristina and their common friend, Stefan - find themselves on holiday near the summer resort of Mamaia. The doctor has a detective passion and accuses – just on account of a physical resemblance with the real thief - a young carpenter who happens to come at the same beach the day following the burglary. The police is summoned and The Kid is sent to trial. The doctor plays an active part in the investigation. Although the doctor's girlfriend and his friend doubt the identity of the accused, the surgeon insists in being right and succeeds in sending the innocent young man to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-01-31
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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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Charleston
Overview: A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an outrageous request: he wants Alexandru to help him overcome the despair caused by Ioana's death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Too Late
Overview: An inexperienced prosecutor becomes involved with a local woman while investigating a miner's death.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Octave
Overview: When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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The Wall
Overview: At the beginning of the 40's, Victor (Gabriel Oseciuc) is a young Communist who has been hiding for months in a built-in room to print out on his own the free newspaper Communist Command.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-10-28
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Untamed Romania
Overview: Untamed Romania provides insight into the stunning natural wonders of Romania, with the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta, and Transylvania as its major areas of interest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2018-04-18
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The Man of the Day
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The Mace with Three Seals
Overview: At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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Darclée
Overview: In this undistinguished drama, Darclee (Silvia Popovici) is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want. Matei Jacob directs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-11-29
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Pisica de mare
Overview: The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-01-06
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The Longest Night
Overview: The action takes place during the Second World War. Unexpectedly in a train compartment a fugitive - British captive - appears among the passengers. The human solidarity is stronger than the fear, and they do their best to save him.
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Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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Crew for Singapore
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Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Earth's Most Beloved Son
Overview: The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1993-03-20
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Stefan Luchian
Overview: Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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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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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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Death of an Artist
Overview: Two artists, father and son, are at odds regarding the meaning of their art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Romanian Musketeer
Overview: During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-10-13
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Starting Over
Overview: Drama directed by Visarion Alexa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Tandrețea lăcustelor
Overview: Corrupt ex-communist politicians in 90s Romania rule the country, with younger politicians vying to take their place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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The Cyanide and the Raindrop
Overview: Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-09-25
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The Man Next to You
Overview: A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she sacrifices her career to follow him to a big project away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1962-12-25
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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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The Storm
Overview: The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-06-08
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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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Long Way to Tipperary
Overview: The movie is about the historic moment in which the PNȚ political party has attempted to form a government in exile to counteract the Petru Groza Russian puppet government. Obviously this is seen through the lenses of communist propaganda.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-08-20
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Doctor Poenaru
Overview: In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An ideological and philosophical dispute ensues, the two following different paths in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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Seven Days
Overview: This movie presents 7 days of a secret agent's life. Unlike most other movies that glamorize secret agents, this one shows the routine, nitty gritty work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-09-24
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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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Încrederea
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1986-09-28
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The Kid
Overview: A metaphor film, in which a group a pupils are going out on a trip. There are various happenings in which adults are interpreting in different ways and give different meanings to everything.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Cantemir
Overview: Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empire" and the jewels of the ruler's wife.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-06-11
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După ea
Overview: Stefan is a young manager in a big advertising agency, happily married and having a young daughter. He suddenly falls in love with a woman he sees on the street, at a light stop. His life changes completely as he is desperately trying to find the woman of his dreams. —Cristina Oprescu
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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Half Shaved
Overview: At the beginning of 1991, after the Romanian Revolution, an old barber meets by chance his former torturer who came in for a shave. Quickly, the parts are inverted though the client refuses to acknowledge that he has been recognized. He says that it is a mistake but to no avail because the barber is convinced he is right. And while latter holds the razor against the client's neck, he gets scarier and scarier wishing for revenge and payback time. Will the victim spare his former torturer?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2013-08-22
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The Phantom Father
Overview: American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Casting Call
Overview: Victor Rebengiuc is an unknown actor from Bucharest. He is called to audition for a "miracle lotion" commercial. A satire about the actors' problems in Romania.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2015-06-01
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Tertium Non Datur
Overview: In the Ukrainian steppe, toward the end of World War II, the German and Romanian troops are retreating in the face of the unstoppable Red Army. A Romanian military unit has set up its headquarters in a deserted school. A visit of high-ranking Wehrmacht officers is suddenly announced. Hope is awakened: will they receive new orders? But disappointment comes quickly.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2006-02-14
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There is No Third
Overview: In 1944, a Russian agent was infiltrated into the command of the Nazi army in the north of Ukraine. Its mission: to discover enemy plans so that the Russian army can destroy the Germans and put an end to the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-11-18
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Silent Wedding
Overview: In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2008-11-21
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