Costel Constantin

Acting

Costel Constantin

Born 1942-10-20 · Galati, Romania

Acting credits

Blackmail poster
7.1

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.

Blackmail

1981

Bucharest Identity Card poster
7.7

A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...

Bucharest Identity Card

1982

Special Edition poster
7.4

A journalist in a Bucharest publication, is the accidental witness of the street arrest of a communist. It intervenes in the defense of the young man, who manages to escape, and is arrested. He is obliged to look for the missing woman.

Special Edition

1978

The Oak poster
6.7

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

The Convoy poster
6.1

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced transfer to another penitentiary.

The Convoy

1981

Return to First Love poster
6.8

Young diplomat Petre returns to Romania after a long time spent abroad.

Return to First Love

1981

The Sign of the Serpent poster
7.0

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.

The Sign of the Serpent

1981

The Yellow Jackets poster
6.8

A children mystery movie. A group of kids calling themselves "The Yellow Jackets" solve the mystery of disappearing artifacts from a local museum.

The Yellow Jackets

1979

The Silence of the Deep poster
6.8

In the times when communism was illegal, one young worker is sentenced to the capital punishment for crimes against the state.

The Silence of the Deep

1982

Shootings Under the Moonlight poster
7.5

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

Shootings Under the Moonlight

1977

Cine iubește și lasă poster
7.0

Andra is a redactor at a women's magazine. The readers are contacting her for help in thir relationships. But Anda has problems on her own.

Cine iubește și lasă

1983

Operation 'The Bus' poster
7.0

In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.

Operation 'The Bus'

1978

Mandroid poster
4.7

In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured.

Mandroid

1993

Alone Versus Myself poster
6.5

A notorious convict who'd been an undercover agent during the communist regime agrees to return to prison to kill an inconvenient witness against some influential figures. But an unexpected bond forms between the two, and he ends up questioning his mission.

Alone Versus Myself

2003

Tufă de Veneția poster
7.3

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 End of the Night poster
7.1

A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man.

The End of the Night

1982

Ana and the Thief poster
6.8

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

Ana and the Thief

1981

Reach for the Sky poster
7.0

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

Reach for the Sky

1990

Repeated Wedding poster
8.4

Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.

Repeated Wedding

1985

Gloria nu cîntă poster
6.5

The "Sing the country's cities" contest organized on TV is sweeping the province. Facing her baccalaureate and enamored... by cybernetics, Gloria is pushed to take part in the contest. But Gloria doesn't sing.

Gloria nu cîntă

1977

Pepe and Fifi poster
6.1

The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.

Pepe and Fifi

1994

I'm an Old Communist Hag poster
6.2

The film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age.

I'm an Old Communist Hag

2013

I Am Adam poster
4.5

A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.

I Am Adam

1996

At the Crossroads of Great Storms poster
7.0

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.

At the Crossroads of Great Storms

1980