Olimpia Melinte
Birthday: Born in 1986-11-07 in Iași, Romania
Deathday: Alive
Born on November 7, 1986, in Iasi, Romania, Olimpia Melinte has always wanted to be an actress. Supported by her parents, who understood and encouraged all her dreams, she studied acting in high school and college. She has a master degree in Dramatic Arts from the Arts University "George Enescu" (Iasi). Olimpia has appeared on the stage of the National Theatre in Iasi in many theatre productions and wishes to come back some day in a great Romanian production guided by a young Romanian director. Her first contact with the big screen was the main part she played in the feature film "Cele ce plutesc", directed by Mircea Danieliuc. Her debut film role landed her two nominations at The Gopo Awards 2010 (for the Best Actress category & Young Hope category). She attracted more attention with her next role in Massimiliano & Gianluca de Serio's movie "Sette opere di misericordia", proving she could hold her own across from screen experienced foreign actors. The film also earned high praise from critics, being awarded in film festivals like Locarno, Annecy, Vilerupt and Marrakech, and brought her an acting award at the Bobbio Film Festival in Italy. She worked with the young and talented Romanian director Luiza Parvu for her short movies Draft &, My Baby and, recently, A New World, with Florin Piersic Jr. for his feature "Killing Time" and also appeared in Dan Chisu's comedy "Bucuresti NonStop" Olimpia starred alongside Antonio de la Torre in the movie "Canibal", directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca, well received by audience and critics at the 2013 editions of the films festivals in Toronto, San Sebastian, Torino etc.
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Vlad
Character: Eliza Dragomir
Adrian, a young man who was unjustly jailed after his friends betrayed him during a heist, gets the chance at a new life, guided by Caesar, his mentor....
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The Windseeker
Character: Ana
Radu lives a solitary, sterile life. A promising job interview seems to give him a chance of breaking free from depression, but after some medical tests required by the company, he finds out that he only has a few more months left to live....
It Takes Two to Fence
Character: Anda
Alex, a fencing champion turned coach, falls in love with his first student, Anda. Mircea, Anda's lover, who is also a fencer at the same club, witnesses the bond between them growing...
Seven Acts of Mercy
Character: Lumintia
Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through she bumps into Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man. The clash between the two of them is unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable consequences…...
Killing Time
Character: Neighbor
Two hit men wait for their next target in an empty apartment. The hours go by. Little by little, they start losing their patience and their temper. Pretty soon, they may even lose their lives. Killing time can be a deadly affair....
Cannibal
Character: Nina
Carlos is a respectable man, the most prestigious tailor in Granada, Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything....
Selfie
Character: Roxana
Yasmine , Roxi and Ana run away to the seaside two days before their finals to have the time of their lives....
Wise Guys
Character: Elena
With their jobs on the line, three bumbling cops desperately try to take down a ruthless drug lord — and their longtime nemesis — by any means necessary....
Selfie 69
Character: Roxi
Your best friends are also the friends who'll make you do the stupidest things. After parting hardcore, Roxi, Yasmine and Ana meet in a bet that will change their lives: Who gets married first in three days?...
Start a New World
Character: Ana
In the aftermath of the Darr mine blast in Pennsylvania (winter 1907), Romanian immigrant cobbler Petru waits for his cousin Pavel's pregnant wife to arrive at their home after the 40 day trip across the Atlantic. A man of few words, Petru is in love with Anna, but he's also the one who needs to break her the news about the recent death of her husband. Petru must make a decision and take the responsibility of changing her forever, as Anna needs to find the strength to reveal the strong woman beh...
The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son
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The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion....
In Perfect Health
Character: Ioana / Andrei's ex-girlfriend
A young man trying to solve the puzzle of his father's last moments rattles the life of a quiet town and unburies unwanted truths. His compulsive quest becomes a downward spiral of love, lust and lies....
Floating Things
Character: Magda
While working in Europe, Avram comes to realize that Italians are paying good money for trained dogs that can protect them from the waves of immigrants. That's Avram's big-time idea: he returns to Romania to start breeding watch dogs which he can later export to Italy. As it happens, he settles next to a camp of immigrants recently sent back from Rome. Thus, the Italian tension is willy-nilly reenacted on the banks of the Danube. Avram's life gets complicated. He starts having an affair with his...
Miss Sueño
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Roxana is about to leave Romania and settle down in Madrid, Spain. Helped by Dan and his wife, Alina, she will soon find a job there and start a new life....
The (Silent) War
Character: Darya Sergéevich Vólkov
Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship....
Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã
Character:
Directed by four different filmmakers and produced by different production companies, these four short films share a common theme - life and death - and a common origin - all four are independent productions made with a little help from all our friends....
Yet to Rule
Character: Lara
A surrealist drama about a 40-year-old criminal court judge with a dying father, an unhappy marriage and petty cases to solve - shown as struggle between ANDI, the animal within, and K, his rational side....
Bucharest Non-Stop
Character: Jeny
"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....