Sebastian Papaiani
Birthday: Born in 1936-08-25 in Piteşti, Argeş, Romania
Deathday: 2016-09-27
TV Credits
Toate pînzele sus
Character: Ieremia
Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures of two friends, the Romanian Anton Lupan and the French Pierre Vaillant. Anton Lupan tries to find the L'Esperance schooner, which belonged to them, wiyhout knowing that it was a victim of a pirate attack. But he hopes in particular to find Pierre, so they can start on a trip to an uncharted land, which they attempted several times to explore unsuc...
Movie Credits
The High schoolers
Character: Mihai's father
The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials....
Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In
Character: Plutonier Căpșună
Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way....
Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
Character: Alecu
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....
Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
Character: Plutonier Căpșună
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s....
With Clean Hands
Character: Oarca
A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters....
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
Character: Gogu
At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangste...
The Last Bullet
Character: Oarcă
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, Commissioner Roman wants to see his murderer, a very powerful local mafia and smuggler, Mr. Semaca, acquitted by the court for lack of evidence, punished. But before dealing with Semaca, Roman receives a new mission, this time undercover: the capture of a German spy still active in the country, suspe...
Golgotha
Character: Petre
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....
I, You, and Ovidiu
Character: Toma Cernat
A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime. The Black Sea coast and the city of Constanta, in the height of the summer season, as well as the pearls of Romanian tourism, the resorts of Mangalia, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Olimp, offer a more than generous setting for a comedy with songs and dances, with beautiful boys and girls, with important ladies and gentlemen, with adventurers, for one day or for several days, with tangled suitcases, functions and destinies...
Gaudeamus igitur
Character: Mihai Gliga
Five young high school graduates are preparing for college admissions in one of the largest and most important university centers, Cluj. Once they become students, the lives of the five change, and the results will be commensurate with the work of each....
Hello, Greatgranny Is Landing!
Character: Romeo
The movie tells the tale of the marital crisis of Romeo and Julieta Ionescu, a crisis that can easily end with a break-up....
The Redhead
Character: Thief Lampă
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice....
A Midsummer Day's Smile
Character: Făniță
Fanita, a young man desirous to earn money as a result of personals initiatives, will fail in all these businesses , is ultimately convinced to enter in the Agricultural Production Comradeship or Community from his village....
Autumn of the Goslings
Character: Pompei
The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by most of the people in the village, most of them believing that neither of them will stay there. However they will be proved wrong as the young graduates, except the French teacher, want to stay there,do their job the best they know how and try to get used to the ways of that community . After you see this mov...
Last Night of Love
Character: Lieutenant Orghidan
In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding officer, Captain Dimiu, to allow him a short leave to visit his wife. Tudor married Lena two years before but was very jealous and suspected her of infidelity. When his grandfather dies Tudor inherits most of the fortune. Gigolo lawyer Andrei Nicolau is the e...
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Character: Fane
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....
The Saturday Night Dance
Character: Papă-Lapte
Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls....
Expresul de Buftea
Character: Sebastian
Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - the conversations of cinephile travelers on their way to the film studios in Buftea - account for about 40% of the total length of the film. We are grateful to the filmmakers for the reunions with great actors who have passed away or great living actors. We are very grateful to them for their kind and benevolent effort to entertain us in every way an...
Melodii, melodii
Character:
A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside....
Lacrimi de iubire
Character: Nea Tache
It's been almost a year since Alexandra and Andrei haven't seen each other. He fulfilled his dream and became a famous actor, she has become, since taking over Grigore Varlam's company, a recognized businesswoman and threw herself desperately into work to forget and leave everything behind. Mihai is expecting a child with Maia and, head over heels in love with his wife, is far too preoccupied with his family to help Alexandra. As a result she has hired an assistant, Gabriel Duma, a man always re...
Ciprian Porumbescu
Character: Zaharia Voronca, colegul lui Ciprian
This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu....
Hot Days
Character: Guriță
In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the casting repeatedly breaks and deadlines loom, he must overcome engineering hurdles and personal sacrifices to see the vessel launched with the home-forged propeller....
Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
Character: Nobleman Ionut Jder
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....
Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea
Character: NCO Căpșună
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way...
Păcală se întoarce
Character: Păcală's father
Păcală, a young man without too many expectations from life, is tired of wandering around the world and driven by the longing for his parental home he decides to return to his homeland, from somewhere "outside" - a timeless space located outside the borders of Romania....
Hurry Slowly
Character: Virgil
An important man, always in a hurry, but especially when behind the wheel, runs over a strange pedestrian: a young globe-trotting, absent-minded young man who is treading firmly, but in the wrong place, on the wide road. After hesitating for a moment, the man behind the wheel turns back to the scene and can't find his victim. Out of nowhere, however, the victim appears in the man's life, upsetting an entire family with dramatic and comic-sentimental entanglements....
Love at Zero Degrees
Character:
A comedy love story that takes place at a ski resort during romanian communism time!...
The Martens Brothers
Character: Ionuț Jder
Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. Ionut is the youngest son of Commissar Jder, a trusted man of Stephen the Great. He falls in love with Nasta, the daughter of a boyar, and competes for her affections with Alexăndrel, the ruler's own son. His longing for Nasta gives impetus to Ionuț, who, together with his brothers, puts his life at the service of Moldavia....
The Secret of Bacchus
Character: Grig Ștevie
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret....
Păcală
Character: Păcală
Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in ...
Iarna bobocilor
Character: Pompei
Sequel of "Toamna bobocilor". Two years have passed since the first meeting with our heroes and something strange happened in Viisoara: the men disappeared! Because they were commanded by a woman, they preferred to leave and take a job at another factory. Toderas stayed on as a "handyman", preferring this "position" to that of brigadier. In the village a character appears who will turn everything upside down, and Varvara will have to take a radical measure......
The Migrant Birds Are Coming
Character: Pamfil
In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise......
Good Evening, Irina
Character: Donciu
Irina is married with a sea captain, that is away for the better part of the year. She is missing his company, so she is vulnerable to the advances of another man....
Secretul lui Nemesis
Character: Radu Poprescu
The administrator of a huge apartment block in Bucharest, a former great Communist Party activist, now in disgrace, eliminated from politics and perched at the head of a tenants' association, through methods he used in his former political positions - blackmail and anonymous letters - a sex obsessed man, ends up terrorizing honest people, people who are looking for justice. Will they find it?...
We Were Sixteen
Character: Corporal Dobriță
Romanian army reaches Budapest near the end of WW II. A small group of soldiers block some Nazi units on their way to Tatra mountains....
The Recruitment
Character: Major Niță
Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an economic spying multinational, that forces him to play as its agents sing for him. Well endowed morally and physically, our geologist passes with flying banners the tests, more so, he even resists the charms of an irresistible lady agent, only to be able to return home, where it's very obvious for him what he has to do! —Tudor Caranfil & Mihnea Columbeanu...
The Computer Testifies
Character: Maj. Moncea
Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim....
A Spare Moment
Character: Onel
Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into....
Snowfall Season
Character: Valeruș
Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village....
A World Wihout Sky
Character: Petre
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....
The Moment
Character: Petre Nobilu
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....
A Studio Searching for a Star
Character: The Comic
Marina, a girl from a stunt team, passively assists to everyone's rush to choose the protagonist without whom the filming cannot begin. After weeks of nothing happening, the director, reviewing the footage on the screen, is struck by the photogenic photo of a young girl in an extras scene, which no one can identify. Marina doesn't want to reveal the secret to those on the set because, more pragmatically, her goal is different: admission to cybernetics!...
Mad Forest
Character: Dobrică Tunsu
A young communist returns to a small provincial town....
Your Part of the Blame
Character: Mihai Brad
This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organizati...
Blackmail
Character: Vasile Dobrescu
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage....
Love Begins on Friday
Character: Dudu
A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory....
The Ring
Character: Bio-Aktiv Spokesman
Andrei is now a truck driver, but in one of his travels to Germany, he must become once again a boxer just for one night at the middleweight category....
Niște băieți grozavi
Character: Dode
A farm team-leader, Tudor, is accused for having failed the harvesting. Unhappy with what he considers an unfair verdict, he leaves the farm and moves to another village, getting a job as an ordinary worker in another farm. At first, he is upset by the very severe leader of that team, Mihai, but soon he discovers that his hard style is necessary to keep the work in good order and face all the problems. He also finds a bunch of great friends (the "Swell Guys" / "...baieti grozavi" in the title) a...
Anything for Soccer
Character: fotbalistul Tipurnea
In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing....