Vladimir Găitan
Birthday: Born in 1947-02-02 in Suceava, Romania
Deathday: 2020-11-10
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Lockruf des Goldes
Character: Montana Kid
America at the end of the 19th century: news spreads like wildfire that gold has been found in the Klondike. Half of America is in an uproar. Among the adventurers is the young lawyer Elam Harnish from San Francisco. Over the next few months, he experiences unique adventures with the hard search for gold, the merciless nature and the shrewd stock market sharks of the big city......
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Reconstruction
Character: Ripu
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism....
The Heat
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Sergiu, Laura and Smache are three high school graduates who make plans for the future. An idyll is born between Sergiu and Laura, but due to the opposition of the girl's parents and the fact that the young man is recruited, she will marry someone else. After a few years, the paths of the three meet again. Sergiu is on the verge of graduating from college and Laura, now divorced, is a piano teacher....
William the Conqueror
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William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III...
Rusty Steel
Character: Fisherman
Two Americans brothers, Rusty and Mike, travel to Romania after Rusty inherits their recently deceased uncle's yacht. Once there, they find out their yacht wasn't what they expected but instead is just a rusty old fishing boat. While performing maintenance on the ship to salvage their trip, they discover their uncle's old diary mentioning the loss of his boat, "Chancellor". Upon further investigation, they find out that the Chancellor is a sunken German war ship that carried millions in Nazi Gol...
The Survivor
Character: Goldberg
After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central European town where Goldberg, an old acquaintance of hi...
Proud Heritage
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After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks....
Accident
Character: Lt. Stefan Vlahu
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience....
Last Night of Love
Character: Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu
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 Woman in the Dream
Character: Oculistul
The story of a famous director, Thomas, at the peak of his career, obsessed by the ills of the woman he desires, but also by his creative problems. Although his films are award-winning and he is loved by audiences, actors and friends, Thomas is tormented by the desire to make the movie of his life....
Mirror
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Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists....
No Trespassing
Character: Elev ofițer Petru
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...
The Man of the Day
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Andrei is the head of a political party, a member of parliament and, at the same time, a prosperous businessman. He stopped being young a good number of years ago, but his love affair with the beautiful dancer Ana gives him the feeling of a second youth. On their way back from a mountain getaway, Andrei's car causes an accident, killing one man and injuring another. The victims were all former colleagues of Ana's band, and the deceased was Ana's boyfriend. The investigation into the cause of the...
Der Mann mit dem Ring im Ohr
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For years, the carpenter Tillmann Rutenschneider has moved around. In 1932, at the age of thirty, he returns to his village in the Mark Brandenburg with a foreign wife. He builds a house and starts a family. It wasn't long before he became a victim of the new racial laws. His house is set on fire, his wife and child burn to death in the flames. He himself is sent to a concentration camp. After liberation, he returned to his home village, started a new family and built a new house. He joins force...
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
Character: comandantul aeronavei
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 Crown of Fire
Character: The King /The King's Twin Brother
In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire....
Hot Days
Character: Eng. Andrei Jercan
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....
Poker
Character: Horia
In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu's name stands for "prolific, highly commercial and professional". At the age of 80, the director launched his latest production, which is also his second comedy in a long row of action and historic films. "Poker" is a cinema adaptation of Adrian Lustig's theatre play with the same name, and focuses on four male friends, representatives for the social canvas: a doctor without a moral conscience, an unscrupulous politician, a chief of the local ...
The Last Assault
Character: Lt. Bodnarenko
The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2....
The Encounter
Character: Petre
This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII....
Năpasta
Character: Dumitru
This is a film about love, crime of passion, revenge, happening in the Romanian countryside, late XIX century....
Gathering Clouds
Character: Virgil Probotă
Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts....
Secretul lui Nemesis
Character: State Attorney
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?...
For Motherland
Character: Second Lieutenant Artur Spiroiu
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....
15
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A love story that happens in the background Revolution in Timișoara....
The Recruitment
Character: Pedro
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...
Margo
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Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal....
The Power and The Truth
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This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks....
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 Return of Magellan
Character: Bucur
A love story between a young communist in illegality and a girl who presents herself as Magellan....
At the Crossroads of Great Storms
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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....
Together Again
Character: Vlad
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it....
Captain's Ion Arrow
Character: Captain Ion
In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Handsome....
Mountains in Flames
Character: Alecu Russo
1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach....
Closed doors
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A young man flees from the authorities in May 1944 until he reaches a house where he can find some help....