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Dumitru Chesa

Dumitru Chesa

Acting

Known For

The Power and The Truth
8.2

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

1972
The Oak
6.5

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.

The Oak

1992
Look Ahead with Anger
5.6

After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.

Look Ahead with Anger

1993
Tufă de Veneția
7.4

A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru.

Tufă de Veneția

1977
The Conspiracy
6.8

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.

The Conspiracy

1973
The Secret of Bacchus
7.8

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.

The Secret of Bacchus

1984
Politica cu… delicatese
10.0

Adapted from the sketch by Ion Luca Caragiale. A fine irony on pre-war politicism, which manages, through gastronomic means, to ridicule an entire political class.

Politica cu… delicatese

1964
The Trap
6.4

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

1974
O lumină la etajul zece
7.2

A woman tries to regain her dignity, both in her personal life and her career, after spending five years in prison, because of a false accusation that she was a saboteur.

O lumină la etajul zece

1984
Păcală se întoarce
7.3

Păcală, a young man without too many expectations from life, is tired of wandering around the world and driven by the longing for his parental home he decides to return to his homeland, from somewhere "outside" - a timeless space located outside the borders of Romania.

Păcală se întoarce

2006
The Beech Forest
7.6

In August 1944 Romania, a group of telephone operators are caught in the events in a new center placed in a forest to evade bombardment.

The Beech Forest

1987
Postcards with Wildflowers
7.8

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

1975
Love and Warm Water
7.3

Angela (Liliana Pană) and Dorina (Magda Catone), working at the Match Factory, live in the home and dream of marriage and spouses to give them a decent living. But the illusions are shattered when the men encountered prove their lack of character: Titi (the boy whom Angela is in love with, appears at a time with a kid and is raped), a vendor, is pimp, Emil, an engineer, is a And Radu, an emigrant in Australia, is undistinguished by his Collie dog.

Love and Warm Water

1992
Expediția
6.5

A history professor decides to take kids from his class in a trek across the country so they can experience various places and people.

Expediția

1988
No image
6.6

The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal life.

Un petic de cer

1984
The Castellans
7.0

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural monument, so an expert is summoned, but foolish beliefs betray them.

The Castellans

1967
Mireasma ploilor târzii
7.0

Paul Vasiliu, a geologist, returns to his native village. Excavating for irrigation works gives him the opportunity to discover some valuable minerals. Now he has to convince the villagers to postpone theirs lifelong dream of having irrigations in their fields to examine if the mineral deposits are economically viable. A common communist propaganda item of those times.

Mireasma ploilor târzii

1984
No image
7.3

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

Personal Issues

1981
Herodot's Mystery
7.5

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman settlement Lisidava. They are trying to locate it.

Herodot's Mystery

1976
Tragic Vacation
6.3

During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.

Tragic Vacation

1979