Sică Alexandrescu
Directing
Biography
Sica Alexandrescu was born in 1896. He was a director and writer, known for Badaranii (1960), A Lost Letter (1954) and Telegrame (1960). He died in 1973.
Known For
The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess....
A Lost Letter
Movie adaptation after Carlo Goldoni`s "I rusteghi" comedy, written in 1760.