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Ilarion Ciobanu

Birthday: Born in 1931-10-28 in Ciucur, Tighina, Romania

Deathday: 2008-09-07

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Toate pînzele sus

Character: Gherasim

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...


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Poveste sentimentala

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Lupeni 29

Character: Danet

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The Immortals

Character: Vasile

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream"....

The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians

Character: Traian Brad

The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank....

The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians

Character: Traian Brad

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....

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians

Character: Traian Brad

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With Clean Hands

Character: Mihai Roman

A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters....

The Hundred Lei Bill

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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...

The Last Bullet

Character: Mihai Roman

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972)....

Ecaterina Teodoroiu

Character: Un general

The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1....

Golgotha

Character: Dăneț

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....

The Column

Character: Gerula, căpetenie dacă

The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia....

The Stake and the Flame

Character: col. Cristescu

The young Alexandru Bota, a former Romanian volunteer in Garibaldi's army, joins the secret organization "Order of the Rose" which initiates an action meant to lead to the liberation of the peoples from the Habsburg tyranny. One of the leaders of the order violates the agreement established with Prince Cuza and plots the assassination of Prime Minister Barbu Catargiu, in order to initiate an outbreak of war on Romanian territory....

For Motherland

Character: Major Moise Grozea

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire....

Michael, the Dog That Sang

Character: Kapitän Duncan

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Two Men for One Death

Character: Pavel Costan

The story of a love triangle, in which a romanian and a hungarian love the same woman. Happening during WWII, the two hate each other. The movie was banned shortly after the release....

The Uprising

Character: Petre Petre

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions....

Terente: The King of Swamps

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The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta....

The Stone Cross

Character: Fane

Andrei Blaier's film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of Bucharest before the Communist period, doomed to destruction under the new rules of proletarian morals that the Communists were trying to impose. The idea could be the start of a great film, with the prostitution being seen not so much from its destructive and exploitation perspective, but rather as a form of freedom in a time when the whole society ...

The Lost Forest

Character: Pavel

In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on....

The Dacians

Character: Gerula

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to....

The Thirst

Character: Mitru Moţ

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform....

Michael the Brave

Character: Stroe Buzescu

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama....

The Romanian Musketeer

Character: Jean Pierre Frip

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....

No Trespassing

Character: Ilarie

The film follows the stories of a handful of characters: Andrei (Radescu), who finds himself in conflict with his peers; Colonel Maxineanu (Stanculescu), the school commander; and Adrian (Mavrodineanu), a young villager who is inspired by the bravery of the cadets. The Hungarians arrive and launch a series of attacks against the Romanians. The Axis are pushed back again and again, despite superior numbers and weaponry. At the end of the film, they launch one last attack, which seems to momentar...

Michael, the Dog That Sang

Character: Cpt. Duncan

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Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector

Character: Vârlan

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich....

The War of the Princesses

Character: Ghindă

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Then the Legend was Born

Character: Redea

Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle....

Snowfall Season

Character: Pavel Pavel

Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village....

The Man Next to You

Character: Popescu

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....

A World Wihout Sky

Character: Dăneț

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....

Merriment Ward

Character: Gheorghe II

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement....

The City Seen from Above

Character: Dan Cernega

Maria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record....

The Conspiracy

Character: Mihai Roman

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania....

Life Like Laughing

Character: Tudor

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....

Long Way to Tipperary

Character: Mihai Roman

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....

The Man We Need

Character: Vasile Mutu

A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating....

Taste and Color of Happiness

Character: Director General

A nonconformist engineer challenges some stereotypical negative communist characters....

Together Again

Character: Hăisan

An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it....

K.O.

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A newly hired engineer is also an amateur boxing star. He also dreams of becoming an actor. He is pushed in different directions, he also wants to get married....

Cantemir

Character: Fripp

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....

The Certainty of Probabilities

Character: Himself

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time ...


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