Maia Morgenstern
Birthday: Born in 1962-05-01 in Bucharest, Romania
Deathday: Alive
A Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Balanţa, a film known in the United States as The Oak, set during the waning days of Communist Romania. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maia Morgenstern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Las Fierbinţi
Character: Rapidoaica
A rural comedy where the intrigues caused by the upcoming elections in a small village give rise to a ridiculous war between the mayor and deputy mayor. Unfortunately, they have no clue that their struggle will prove to be in vain at the end of the election day....
Iubire și Onoare
Character: Marieta Stuttman
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Sacrificiul
Character: Eva
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Aniela
Character: Maica Irina
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The Passion of the Christ
Character: Maria
A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life....
Ulysses' Gaze
Character: Ulysses' Wives
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more....
Betrayal
Character: Maia Morgenstern
After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime....
Kidnapped in Romania
Character: Daniela
A couple of Italo-American journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania....
My Mother, My Bride And I
Character: Bogdana
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The Oak
Character: Nela
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything....
Eva
Character: Maria
Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances....
The Big Question
Character: Self
Although it was shot on the set of director Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion of the Christ, this thought-provoking documentary is not about the making of the movie. Rather, filmmakers Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari delve into the nature of divinity and spiritual beliefs through revealing interviews with Gibson and members of his cast and crew -- including stars Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci....
15
Character: Irene
A love story that happens in the background Revolution in Timișoara....
The End of Silence
Character: Anne
Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep, youngest son Jean is thrown out. Angry and threatening, he arrives at Nils and Ida's chalet for a hunting expedition. The next day, he learns how to kill. The following night, his mother's car is set on fire and he is blamed. He disappears into the mountains with a gun. On the third day, it pours down with rain and, in the evening, a storm brews. Shut up in their house, the Klein family await wi...
The Seventh Room
Character: Edith Stein
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp....
The Man Without a Lifeline
Character:
The invention of the first modern robot for table tennis training turns Ionel Sporea into a star in the world of Romanian sports. A trip to Moscow, however, ends with a harsh sentence: 12 years in prison for treason. Who is to blame: destiny, the Ceausescu regime, or himself?...
Earth's Most Beloved Son
Character: Matilda
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor....
The Green Moon
Character: Simona
Contemporary story of young people in search of happiness which one imagines coming from unseen meetings with people "hooked" on the Internet, the acquisition of works of art, from driving a luxury car in psychedelic music, theater, of money, for love....
A House in Kosovo
Character:
A Swedish guy, who grew up on the streets, becomes a successful business man, only in risk all he's built, to rescue a young Romanian girl he had wanted to adopt, from being organ harvested....
Bed of Procust
Character: Doamna T
The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T....
Chained Justice
Character: Floraea
Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice....
The Goat and Her Three Kids
Character: Goat
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs....
Mihai Viteazul: Prințul intrat în legenda Europei
Character:
Voivode Michael the Brave travels through time, together with his wife, discovering, deeply touched, the new world....
The Secret of Bacchus
Character: Coca
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....
Terezín
Character:
The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with each other during the World War II, in Prague....
The Resurrection of the Christ: Part II
Character: Mary
Unconfirmed second part of a potential two-part story....
Orient Express
Character: Amalia Frunzetti
At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folk, due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisit manners, which don't fit in the way of life of the villagers. But, in the end, despite trying to distance himself from the local people, he can't but influence their humble existences....
Like Girls
Character: Silvia
Best friends Silvia, Cela and Rozana try new things after they discover Sivlia's husband cheating on her....
High Strung
Character: Markova
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever....
The Witman Boys
Character: Mrs. Witman
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences....
The Crucifixion
Character: Dr. Funar
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence....
Revival
Character: Araksi Arakelian
In 2020, when a French robotics student investigates his mother's guarded secret about his true Armenian identity, he jeopardizes his university AI competition to travel to Artsakh and gets entangled in an unexpected full-scale war where he must rely on the evolving consciousness of his AI creation to save his life and learn the truth....
Mansfeld
Character: Mrs. Mansfeld
At 15 he and his family became victims of state terror. At 16 he became a freedom fighter to participate in the 1956 Revolution against Soviet oppression. At 17 he is betrayed and arrested by the dreaded Secret Police (AVH). Now he has to spend the remainder of his life in a political prison, called Hell's Hallway, to reach the legal age of 18 before his death penalty can be carried out. Peter Mansfeld was 18 when he was unjustly executed by the totalitarian regime of Hungary. Today he is rememb...
Rose's Songs
Character: Olga
Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such t...
Exodus to Shanghai
Character: Mrs. Morgenstern
Exodus to Shanghai tells the story of two lovers who have to escape from Vienna to China after Dr. Ho, the Chinese Consul in Vienna in 1938, issued Exit Visas to many Jews against the instruction of his superiors. Fannia, a New York Jewish Violin student, falls in love with the Consul's nephew Bruce. Together they must leave Vienna as the Gestapo is chasing them to get the Jews and Hitler's painting....
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
Character: Woman at Fountain
Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula....
The Bra
Character: Fidan
Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”....
What About Love
Character: Sister Martina
Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love....
The Death Triangle
Character: Regina Maria
The Romanian army faces the German army in the epic battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, marking a turning point in World War 1....
One second of life
Character:
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L'homme pressé
Character: Bonne de Bois de Rose
An antiques dealer misses out on some of life's pleasures because of his obsession with doing everything fast....
The Man of the Day
Character:
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Fault Condition
Character: Dr. Salid Blumberg
Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months p...
The Resurrection of the Christ
Character: Mary
A sequel to The Passion of the Christ, focusing on the events that occurred in the three days between the crucifixion and resurrection, when Jesus Christ descended to Abraham's Bosom to preach and resurrect Old Testament saints....
Isha
Character: Mother
Rahmi, a Romanian immigrant living in England, creates a new life for himself while trying to keep up appearances with his Muslim family. This moving, evocative drama costars renowned Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern and Game of Thrones’ Lino Facioli alongside newcomer Hora Savescu as Rahmi....
Față în față
Character:
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Forgotten by God
Character:
The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her....
Margo
Character:
Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal....
Nostradamus
Character: Helen
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond....
Prea cald pentru luna mai
Character: Dorina
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows....
Iubire elenă
Character:
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives
Character: Maria Sineşti
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu....
Lucania
Character: Argenzia
An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesses the fatal clash between two fathers....
Far from Here
Character: Donna
A young couple struggles to keep their marriage afloat in a foreign country....
The Goat and Her Three Kids
Character: Capra
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three has to defend that what's left of her family, at all cost, from a cold blooded killer. Based on one of the best known Romanian fairy tales (The Goat and Her Three Kids by Ion Creanga), this short film aims to unveil the true nature of the famed bed time story and to treat the audience to a different perspective, one that offers a glimpse at what the tragedy actually looks like beyond the happy songs and colorful characters....
The New Gospel
Character: Mother Mary
What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today's society respond to the return of the Son of God? With The New Gospel, Milo Rau is staging a "Revolt of Dignity". Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement is fighting for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Italy and to live in ghettos under inhumane conditions....
Black Sea
Character: Madalina
It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver....
Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Mother (segment "Isha")
On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"; Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hjalmar Hardestam and Simon Eriksson; Mickey Jones's "Just Me" starring Philip Olivier and Carl Loughlin; Matthew Jacobs Morgan's "Mine" starring Joshua McGuire and John Macmillan; Dale John Allen's "Don't Blame Jack" starring Jordan Tweddle and K...