Costel Constantin
Birthday: Born in 1942-10-20 in Galati, Romania
Deathday: 2024-05-22
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Iubire și Onoare
Character: Hussein bin Nasser el Jisr
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Mandroid
Character: Chief of Police
In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though...
Somnul insulei
Character: Președintele Colegiului Ideologic
The topic of the film points out the condition of an intellectual in time of totalitarian dictatorship, which subjugated an island from where you can not run. The only alternative is collaborating with power and internment in a rehabilitation institute. A famous writer returns to his homeland to try to confront the terror of an oppressive regime, but he ends up being himself corrupted-thanks to the aberrant system....
Return to First Love
Character: Petre Munteanu
Young diplomat Petre returns to Romania after a long time spent abroad....
The Eleventh Commandment
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Free adaptation of the book "The Pitesti phenomenon" by Paul Goma....
The Mysteries of Bucharest
Character: Mincioaga, omul Strigoaiei
The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societies are working to chase away the Prince Gheorge Bibescu from his throne, arms are transported on secret ways, preparing the first popular revolts in Bucharest, as the first act of the Revolution of 1848, which revolution is the first impulse of the later act of the Union of the Wallachia with Moldova (Romanian United Principalities in 1862, Kingdo...
The Blue Gates of the City
Character: Serg. Ana
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A Swan in Winter
Character: Pocrovan
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The Sign of the Serpent
Character: Dondoș
This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions....
I Am Adam
Character: maiorul Iosif I. Iosif
A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade....
The Man of the Day
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Reach for the Sky
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A story about young gymnasts in Romania....
Bucharest Identity Card
Character: Traffic agent
A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband......
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
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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...
Waiting for a Train
Character: The Corporal
After Romania changed alliances in August 23rd, 1944, a group of soldiers have the mission to stop a military train....
A Summer Tale
Character: Marin
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia....
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Character: Grofșoru
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and sav...
Tufă de Veneția
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Operation 'The Bus'
Character: Ludovic Franga
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....
Promisses
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Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life....
The "S" Network
Character: Aurel Serafim
Industrial espionage movie, in communist Romania....
Special Edition
Character: Ștefan
A journalist in a Bucharest publication, is the accidental witness of the street arrest of a communist. It intervenes in the defense of the young man, who manages to escape, and is arrested. He is obliged to look for the missing woman....
Jachetele galbene
Character: Dan Dumitriu
A children mystery movie. A group of kids calling themselves "The Yellow Jackets" solve the mystery of disappearing artifacts from a local museum....
Blackmail
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A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage....
The Last Night of Loneliness
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The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village....
Shootings Under the Moonlight
Character: Visarion Olteanu
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania....
At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Character: Golescu Negrul
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home....
The Convoy
Character: Cercel
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Uncertain Roads
Character: Axente Borcea
Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges....
Ana and the Thief
Character: Petrescu
A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him....
The End of the Night
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A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man....
The Silence of the Deep
Character: The Minister
In the times when communism was illegal, one young worker is sentenced to the capital punishment for crimes against the state....
Mountains in Flames
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1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach....
Cine iubește și lasă
Character: Mircea Trifan
Andra is a redactor at a women's magazine. The readers are contacting her for help in thir relationships. But Anda has problems on her own....
Roundtrip
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An eclectic film, in which suspense and cynicism sometimes meet the grotesque, "Back and forth" reminds, in many ways, the future masterpiece, "Cruise" (1981), directed by Mircea Daneliuc. Placed on the water's edge, where several characters sit with their bellies in the sun and when they talk about what they want and what they don't want, when they keep quiet, "Back and forth" is the graduation film of one of the legendary filmmakers of national cinema....