Irina Petrescu
Also Known As: Ирина Петреску
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucureşti, Romania
Birthday: June 19, 1941
Deathday: March 19, 2013
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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Beyond the Bridge
Overview: Mara, a hard-working widow woman brings up his two children in a developing idustrial Transylvanian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-02-23
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A Woman for a Season
Overview: The film presents the drama of a proud man, full of himself, proud of his physical and intellectual qualities. Palaloga, whose life had been an uninterrupted succession of gallant, professional and spiritual successes, finds out at one point that he is seriously ill and is approaching death. In full dying delirium, almost like a confession, he realizes that his life until then was just an empty lie, in which he never lived something true, pure and beautiful and asks an imaginary Mephistopheles to give him another month of life, because in the meantime to achieve something great to stay after him…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-21
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Story of My Foolishness
Overview: The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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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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The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Overview: A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-01-16
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Sunday at Six
Overview: Romania, 1940. A boy meets a girl. They fall in love without suspecting anything about their real identities. They chose an eventful, tense and dangerous life as underground anti-fascists fighters. The significance of their activity is manifest in the consequences it has on the tormented progress of their love. Reality is against it. Two parallel lines which meet for a second, only to drift apart for ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-03-16
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Stejar, extremă urgență
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Genres: War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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O lumină la etajul zece
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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I Don't Want to Get Married
Overview: In a textile factory, the cultural supervisor falls in love with a typist. To impress her, he pretends to be friends with a famous composer whose operetta was to be performed by the company's artistic brigade. However, the typist, an uneducated woman, sees him only as a means to become the protected one of an influential person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Luxury Hotel
Overview: In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-04-01
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The Human Resources Manager
Overview: A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2010-12-15
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The White Moor
Overview: Adapted from a folk legend, it tells the story of a bad-tempered nobleman and his chronically useless younger son - who dreams of being the mythical hero Harap Alb.
Genres: History Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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The Making of the World
Overview: Around the nationalization in 1948, a worker's daughter, as a student, is attracted by the social life offered by a breed horse owner. The relationship will sour by the cruelty with which he kills the horses, rather then give them away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Miss Christina
Overview: Christina's ghost haunts the mansion where she was born.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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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 Carpathian Castle
Overview: In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-03-23
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Fourth Fence, by the Wharf
Overview: Mișu and Mitică are two best friends. Everything changes when Cornelia shows up.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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The Impossible Love
Overview: Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by the engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-03-12
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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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Chief of the Souls Sector
Overview: Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-06-18
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The Stranger
Overview: The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-10-08
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Three Days and Three Nights
Overview: In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives
Overview: An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-10-16
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