Ion Besoiu
Birthday: Born in 1931-03-11 in Sibiu, Romania
Deathday: 2017-01-18
He was born in Sibiu in 1931 and graduated the city's Theater and Music Academy. After making his debut in 1957, he played for 16 years at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. He then moved to Bucharest, where he played at the Bulandra Theatre. He later served for 12 years as director of this well-known theatre.
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Toate pînzele sus
Character: Anton Lupan
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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Michael the Brave
Character: Sigismund Báthory
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....
Subspecies
Character: Doctor
Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains....
Ashes and Blood
Character: Timos
Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her fears and secrets, allows herself to be influenced by her children's wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousin's wedding. They set off to spend a summer in the old country, discovering their roots and their past. But Judith's return revives old hatreds between rival clans. The spiral of violence i...
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Character: Ion Belciug
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...
Loverboy
Character: Bunicul
Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his potential victims. It's summer down the Danube river, in Harsova. The music is loud, the cars are fancy, the girls are tanned and Veli runs away from home in Luca's bed. First love has never felt more dangerous....
The Immortals
Character: Costea
It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream"....
A Police Inspector Calls
Character: Vișan Năvodeanu
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and...
The Last Bullet
Character: secretar de partid
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972)....
Revenge
Character: Zavoianu
"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together ...
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Character: Parintele Ioan
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot....
Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
Character: Vornicescu
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s....
François Villon: The Maverick Poet
Character: Poetul Fredet
The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he supported the free expression of people in a coercive climate....
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....
Bucharest Non-Stop
Character: Batran
"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a key figure, Achim, known as "the boy from non-stop", played by George Ifrim. The film wants to convey the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations....
Last Night of Love
Character: Colonel Constantinescu
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...
Michael, the Dog That Sang
Character: Del Mar
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Jacob
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Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his...
Astray
Character: Dinescu
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country....
The Uprising
Character: Grigore Iuga
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....
The Mysteries of Bucharest
Character: domnitorul Gheorghe Bibescu
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 Silver Mask
Character: domnitorul Gheorghe Bibescu
Margelatu has to clear his name....
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....
Poor Ioanide
Character: colonelul Remus Gavrilcea
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Bariera
Character: pictorul Radulescu
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White Gate
Character: Profesorul Panait
Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania....
Ciprian Porumbescu
Character: Ioan Slavici
This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu....
Tudor
Character: Zoican
Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians....
The Outlaws
Character: Amza
First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship....
The Soimaresti Clan
Character: Ştefan Tomşa
Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612....
The Dacians
Character: dublaj voce Severus
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: Baniciu
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform....
Forest Fruit
Character: Clovică
The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the soldier refuses to admit that he is the father of the child to be born, as Amalia was just a fling in his eyes. Amalia decides to raise the kid all by herself, but she soon changes her mind…...
Crew for Singapore
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Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor
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Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan Hagi-Iordan (George Calboreanu). This will put pressure on his superiors to drop the case. Based on "Calea Victoriei" novel by Cezar Petrescu....
The Bone Srewn Road
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Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities....
The Turquoise Necklace
Character: prințul Bibescu
5th movie in the "Margelatu" series...
The Castle of the Condemned
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After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets....
The Actor and the Savages
Character: Guță Popescu
Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world....
The Romanian Musketeer
Character: Knight Desiree
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....
Păcală
Character: Thieves Leader
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 ...
The Last Assault
Character: Col. Câmpeanu
The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2....
Mercenaries' Trap
Character: Cpt. Resz Lemeni
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the v...
Secretul lui Nemesis
Character: Virgil Cocean
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Everything is Paid
Character: Prince Bibescu
Sixth "Margelatu" movie...
The Duel
Character: Zăvoianu
Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief....
The Recruitment
Character: Martin
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 Cyanide and the Raindrop
Character: Dr. Florian
Investigation into the death of a modest cashier....
The Power and The Truth
Character: Duma
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks....
The Snowstorm
Character: Adam
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s....
Merriment Ward
Character: Alexandru Pietraru
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement....
The Storm
Character: Vicu
The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station....
Doctor Poenaru
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In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An ideological and philosophical dispute ensues, the two following different paths in life....
Mad Forest
Character: Prof. Turtulă
A young communist returns to a small provincial town....
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....
Your Part of the Blame
Character: Bejan
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...
Dangerous Turn
Character: Sorin Apostolescu
A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead man found found on the side of the road....
Chess to the King
Character: Cpt. Grigoraș
When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring....
Shootings Under the Moonlight
Character: Coman
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: Prince Bibescu
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: Colțoiu
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Strange Agent
Character: Simion
This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)...
Amongst the Green Hills
Character: Racolțea
Here the author makes a movie after his own novel. Following 3 murders, the investigations will have some unexpected turns....
Captain's Ion Arrow
Character: Andrei
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....
Eagle 101
Character: Luca Nicolae
A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents due to his love. Based on the novel "Zbor de noapte" (Night Flight) by Nicolae Tăutu. Acting debut for Ion Besoiu...
Mult mai de preț e iubirea
Character: Mitrică
A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself....
Horea
Character: Arpad
Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan....
Căruța cu mere
Character: Popa Șoimu
Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists....
I Hope to See You Again
Character: Director
A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an old mill....
Cantemir
Character: De Syre
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....