Dinu Manolache

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists.

A petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection.

Virgil, the son of a director, fails to get into college and he is drafted in the army. This "forced" growing up is even more painful as he is followed by a "fata morgana", a lost love.

This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind.

Traumatized by the loss of his wife, Vasile, an engineer, joins a new work collective in the provinces, at the ARO factory. Saddened by his loneliness, Cristina overcomes his resistance by becoming close to his little boy.

A young, single engineer divides his time between work and an uneventful schedule at home, where TV is front and center. One rainy evening he is disturbed by a woman's phone call and finds himself drawn into an adventure full of the unexpected.

This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.

A young woman is accused of "Immorality" (aka prostitution) and she is sent for re-education to work on a construction site.

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.

A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.

The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".

A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.

A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.

This is a film about love, crime of passion, revenge, happening in the Romanian countryside, late XIX century.

One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie about childhood, creativity. Strange topics for a country that was about to fall apart. 50 minutes - by Elisabeta Bostan, who made great movies for kids in the 60's and 70's (such as Veronica).