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Horațiu Mălăele

Horațiu Mălăele

Acting

Biography

Horațiu-Valentin Mălăele (born 1 August 1952) is a Romanian actor, cartoonist, writer, and theater and film director. In this last capacity his is often associated with the Romanian New Wave. Born in 1952 Târgu-Jiu, he had a public art exhibit in his final year of secondary school, the first of over 30 as of 2016. Mălăele graduated in 1975 from the Institute of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest and first became a professional actor with the National Theater of Romania in Piatra Neamț. He returned to Bucharest, where he became a prominent actor, working in many of Romania's leading theaters including Nottara, Odeon, and Bulandra. He then became a director, directing such plays as O sărbătoare princiară ("A Princely Feast") by Theodor Mazilu (1982 at Nottara Theatre), A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau (1993 at Nottara Theatre), and Carlo contra Carlo ("Carlo against Carlo") by Paul Ioachim (1994 at the Odeon), which won him that year's Romanian Comedy Festival Prize. He has since directed over a dozen other stage productions. He first appeared as a film actor in 1974, appearing in two films that year: Păcală ("Caution") and Muntele Ascuns ("The Hidden Mountain", and has gone on to act in over two dozen other films. He also directed Palaria ("The Hat", 2004, TV movie), Nunta mută ("Silent Wedding", 2008) and Funeralii fericite ("Happy Funerals", 2013). He has also written two books: the autobiographical Horaţiu despre Mălăele ("Horatiu about Malaele", ISBN 9731812172, and Wanderings, a collection of short episodes, aphorisms, and memories.

Known For

Las Fierbinţi
8.0

A rural comedy where the intrigues caused by the upcoming elections in a small village give rise to a ridiculous war between the mayor and deputy mayor. Unfortunately, they have no clue that their struggle will prove to be in vain at the end of the election day.

Las Fierbinţi

2012
Amen.
7.0

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

Amen.

2002
Silent Wedding
7.2

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.

Silent Wedding

2008
O săptămână nebună
7.5

Alex Puica, a young man that seems to be followed by trouble and bad luck, is soon to marry Maria, daughter of the respectable Emilian and Natalia Codrescu.

O săptămână nebună

2014
Ambassadors Seek Country
7.0

Titi and Marius, two friends who fought together during the revolution of 1989, follow very different social and political paths in its aftermath.

Ambassadors Seek Country

2003
Secretul lui Nemesis
7.4

The administrator of a huge apartment block in Bucharest, a former great Communist Party activist, now in disgrace, eliminated from politics and perched at the head of a tenants' association, through methods he used in his former political positions - blackmail and anonymous letters - a sex obsessed man, ends up terrorizing honest people, people who are looking for justice. Will they find it?

Secretul lui Nemesis

1987
Poker
4.6

In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu's name stands for "prolific, highly commercial and professional". At the age of 80, the director launched his latest production, which is also his second comedy in a long row of action and historic films. "Poker" is a cinema adaptation of Adrian Lustig's theatre play with the same name, and focuses on four male friends, representatives for the social canvas: a doctor without a moral conscience, an unscrupulous politician, a chief of the local mafia, and a businessman who made a fortune in America. Made by MediaPro Pictures, 'Poker' looks at immorality and intrigues in politics, hinting at the fact that contemporary Romania is a day to day jungle where strings are pulled by those in power, so everything turns into a poker round, where those who have the right aces in their sleeve can win.

Poker

2010
Luca
6.7

He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.

Luca

2020
The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son
8.3

The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion.

The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son

2024
Somewhere in Palilula
5.8

The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.

Somewhere in Palilula

2012
Maria
8.4

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

Maria

2003
Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time
6.7

A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important thing is to own land and work it, changes upon the arrival of the Communist regime and collectivization.

Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time

2018
Family Album
6.6

Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to lower the financial deficit of his company. As the elections draw closer, attention is focused on the suspicions which arose shortly after Moraru stepped into the life of politics, regarding some financial misconducts. Moraru has to resist the siege, lead by two of his former friends and associates, who are trying to take advantage of the situation and remove him from his leading position in the company. This is yet another battle for Moraru, who sticks to his principles, even though they had cost him his family.

Family Album

2004
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4.1

Stan Mirkine would have everything to be happy. Now, he is sure of it: his wife is cheating on him. Too much in love, possessive to the extreme, he is haunted every day by the only fear of discovering that Mathilde is unfaithful. Day after day, week after week, suspicions precipitate Stan in an infernal spiral driven by jealousy. The existence of Mathilde and Stan rocking after an irreparable act: Stan kills the one he thinks is his rival. Soon, doubt settles, jealousy resurfaced. What if Stan was abused by his paranoia? Could it be that his jealousy is only the result of a mad scheme? Who would then draw the strings? ...

Les Amants naufragés

2011
Fed Up
6.0

Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still alive. Wishing to save its life, the doctor puts the mother on artificial life support. Just then, Bebe, the supposed father of the unborn child, enters the scene. A former teacher and mountain climber, Bebe will soon fall in love with the doctor...

Fed Up

1994
September
7.2

After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best one would be his father in Bucharest. To get there, he steals a motorcycle. In Bucharest he meets store clerk Anișoara, and he invites her to a seaside escapade. Their one day of love and future optimism is ended abruptly by a tragic motorcycle accident.

September

1978
Happiness Is So Close
6.8

Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.

Happiness Is So Close

1977
Miss Litoral
7.0

Nea Costel and her consort, Didona, want their daughter, Tina, to participate in the Miss Litoral beauty contest. But Tina is in love with a shy and jealous boy who does not see in Tina a beauty of the kind that appears on the covers of magazines and wants to keep her only for himself.

Miss Litoral

1991
Ticăloșii
6.5

All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.

Ticăloșii

2007
For Motherland
8.3

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

For Motherland

1977