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How did Bebe Udrea become the ruthless leader known as Macelaru and how did he become, for those close to him, the parental figure known as DADDY?
A single mother's struggle to support her child leads her into the surreal netherworld of illegal sexual enterprises, with her finally ending up in the Bibliothèque Pascal; an elegant but bizarre house of prostitution in which men can re-enact sexual scenarios inspired by great works of literature for a hefty fee.
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 like 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 at everything.
Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.
At Radu Maligan's 94th anniversary the family members and the former colleagues of the old man come to his birthday party. Everything gets complicated when half of the guests try to convince Radu to confess his sins to a priest, while the others think that no one should be forced to do something beyond their will.
Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.
The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.
Former classmates Dana, Ionica, Geta, and Cosmin face adult challenges: Dana, now a reporter craving thrilling cases, ropes Cosmin into playing detective. Meanwhile, Geta and Ionica’s romance is shattered when Ionica is mistaken for notorious drug trafficker “Blondul” and arrested.
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.
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Based on the 1933 homonymous play by Tudor Mușatescu. An interwar satire, the film follows Decebal Necșulescu, son of Spirache Necșulescu from “Titanic Vals”, as he relentlessly pursues political office in Bucharest.
The fate of an ordinary and honest man who entered, without permission, into the electoral mixer of interwar Romanian political life, which manipulated him into the state of a certain victim.
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
The adventures of high schoolers, including strict maths teachers, rock 'n' roll music, and first love experiences.
Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he's told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.
The school year is inaugurated by teacher Socrates with an extemporary exam on the theme "How would I like to be the class headmaster?". Socrates' popularity worries the math teacher, Isoscel. But Socrates also has his worries about Anca, his daughter in love.
A farm team-leader, Tudor, is accused for having failed the harvesting. Unhappy with what he considers an unfair verdict, he leaves the farm and moves to another village, getting a job as an ordinary worker in another farm. At first, he is upset by the very severe leader of that team, Mihai, but soon he discovers that his hard style is necessary to keep the work in good order and face all the problems. He also finds a bunch of great friends (the "Swell Guys" / "...baieti grozavi" in the title) and learns in what had consisted his own past mistakes. —Mihnea Columbeanu
