Nicolae Praida
Acting
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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.
The Power and The Truth

At Bucharest’s famous revue theater “Vox,” director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite growing threats from the Iron Guard. As pressure and violence escalate, he and his collaborators face persecution, turning their artistic resistance into an act of courage and sacrifice.
The Actor and the Savages

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.
The Storm

After surviving a shipwreck in the Caribbean, a captain returns home burdened by guilt and haunted by the past. Given command a ship bound for Singapore, he is treated with suspicion and hostility by his new crew.
A Crew for Singapore

Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoica.
Călifar's Mill

After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.
The Trap

Romania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and poverty. Now, their problem is mostly poverty - and plenty of it. In this grim comedy (to call it a black comedy would be to paint too perky a picture of it), Vasile (Gheorghe Dinica)has a wife whom he's fond of, and a mistress, whom he's fonder of. He manages a nearly abandoned movie theater, and makes just about nothing doing it. When his wife announces she's pregnant, he nearly goes frantic trying to find money to get her an abortion. However, what truly sends him over the edge is when his mistress decides to become a prostitute because, after all, the money is good. These two situations send him straight to the loony bin, and when he gets out, he discovers that his wife has rented their apartment to pornographic filmmakers, and guess who's starring in them?
The Conjugal Bed

"The Apples" (1955) is the graduation film of two of the most important directors of the following decades, Iulian Mihu and Manole Marcus, and shows a young couple mocked by a nobleman because they had stolen some apples from his estate.
The Apple Trees

Professor Cristian conducts research on a citostatic. He is still dealing though with the unjust condemning he suffered in the 50s. Some of the people around him try to bring him down with same type of accusations.
Prides

The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers.
The Season of Love

Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"
Before the Silence

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

In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind.
Postcards with Wildflowers

In a small village in the Danube Delta, where traditions are confronted with new material purposes, a teenage girl is becoming a woman. This is the story of Ryna, a 16 year old girl, working as an motor mechanic in Sulina, who strives to find her identity next to a father who is firmly denying her femininity.
Ryna
Poland is invaded by Nazi Germany and entrusts the national treasure to Romania. In September 1939, the Romanian government thus took an enormous risk.
Marea sfidare

A young communist returns to a small provincial town.
Mad Forest

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
Porto-Franco

An epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia.
The Moment of Truth

Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.
Close to the Sun

Alexandra and The Inferno is a 1975 Romanian film, about a young soldier during World War 2, written and directed by Iulian Mihu. The main roles were played by actors Violeta Andrei, Romeo Partenie and Nicolae Radu. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name written by Laurențiu Fulga. In a complex social context, the film explores the protagonist's dilemmas and inner struggles, shedding light on social and personal issues that test her courage and strength to resist.