Mircea Mureșan

Directing

Mircea Mureșan

Born 1928-11-11 · Sibiu, Romania

Mircea Muresan (11 November 1928 - 24 April 2020) was a Romanian film director. His debut in the film is made after the IATC graduation in 1955, with a film being directed by Dumitru Furdui and Vasilica Tastaman (Autumn is ..., 1961). She earns her consecration with the Cannes Film Festival Rebellion (1965). He was Deputy Chairman of the ACIN Association between 1974-1989. His cinematic career, debut as a screenwriter, gradually turns to comedy, with rare documentary tours.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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5.4

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people.

The Siege

1971

Return to First Love poster
6.8

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

Return to First Love

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

Horea poster
7.6

In 18th-century Transylvania, peasants rise against oppressive nobles under the leadership of Horea, Cloșca, and Crișan. Hoping for justice, Horea seeks support from Emperor Joseph II, but as tensions grow, the rebellion turns into a harsh struggle for freedom and survival.

Horea

1984

The Uprising poster
7.3

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.

The Uprising

1966

The Axe poster
7.6

Vitoria, a strong-willed peasant woman from the mountains, sets out on a relentless journey to find out what happened to her husband, the shepherd Nechifor, who disappeared without a trace after leaving to buy sheep.

The Axe

1969

Bariera poster
7.2

In 1942, Nea' Vitu is in trouble with his children: a son is fascinated by the world of war profiteers, and the daughter is going around with the speculator "Treispemii" (Dan Nutu). On the evening of her engagement, Vitu is denounced by his son for hiding an illegal printing press in a painter's house. Thirty years later, he returns to the slum and searches for the Vitu family. They no longer live there, the neighbors have changed, and he investigates to find out what happened to them. Nea Vițu, you raise your daughter, Rădița, and son Fănică. His wife Dorina died when Fănică was born. Apparently, family problems are difficult barriers to overcome. He's an honest man. He gets angry at the slick Fănică. Fănică is also chased away by the slum priest, because he wanted to make a new bible... where he'd be Fănică the God .... Rădița goes around with the speculator "Treispemii". In 1942, nea Vițu joins the fight against the Nazis and runs an illegal printing house with a painter...

Bariera

1972

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

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7.0

The wife of a sea captain has a tough time being alone without her husband which is in a long trip.

Maria and the Sea

1988

K.O. poster
7.8

A newly hired engineer is also an amateur boxing star. He also dreams of becoming an actor. He is pushed in different directions, he also wants to get married.

K.O.

1968

K.O. poster
7.8

A newly hired engineer is also an amateur boxing star. He also dreams of becoming an actor. He is pushed in different directions, he also wants to get married.

K.O.

1968

The Witch Azucena poster
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Mircea Muresan's last movie

The Witch Azucena

2005

The Witch Azucena poster
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Mircea Muresan's last movie

The Witch Azucena

2005

Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh poster
8.0

After the mysterious disappearance of the island of Ada-Kaleh, the site of an incendiary love affair, Ismail flees to Istanbul, leaving behind a great love and a child named Gicu. As the years go by, Gicu grows up and experiences a forbidden passion with Lucica, a beautiful and seductive woman full of unfulfilled desires. Everything changes one day, when Gicu sees his father on a television program. This is when fate brings them together, but in unexpected and dangerous ways.

Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh

2001

Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh poster
8.0

After the mysterious disappearance of the island of Ada-Kaleh, the site of an incendiary love affair, Ismail flees to Istanbul, leaving behind a great love and a child named Gicu. As the years go by, Gicu grows up and experiences a forbidden passion with Lucica, a beautiful and seductive woman full of unfulfilled desires. Everything changes one day, when Gicu sees his father on a television program. This is when fate brings them together, but in unexpected and dangerous ways.

Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh

2001

Your Part of the Blame poster
7.3

This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organization tries to convince him to improve his skills become a qualified worker but he refuses saying that he soon wants to go back to his village and be a shepherd.

Your Part of the Blame

1963

The Second Fall of Constantinople poster
7.3

Caught up in the crazes of the "transition", Suflețel also dreams of great adventure. When he learns that his old friend Ismail is his son's real father, Suflețel plans to flee the country. But in Istanbul, he stumbles upon the miraculous money machine...

The Second Fall of Constantinople

1994

The Blue Gates of the City poster
7.8

After recovering in hospital from an assault by one of his subordinates, Second Lieutenant Roșu returns to lead his anti-aircraft artillery unit during the final days of World War II.

The Blue Gates of the City

1974

A Swan in Winter poster
7.6

Adapted from the play "The Fifth Swan" by Paul Everac, the movie depicts the love story between Dufy, a talented ballerina but cast as an extra, and Mirea, an engineer at the height of his career. The love story between the two proves impossible because of social conventions.

A Swan in Winter

1983

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love poster
8.5

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

1980

Miss Litoral poster
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

In Autumn, children go to school poster
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Mircea Mureșan's first movie

In Autumn, children go to school

1961

The most beautiful 20 years poster
NR

Documentary movie about the first 20 years of Ceaușescu's presidency

The most beautiful 20 years

1985

Six years long night poster
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Documentary film about World War Two which was banned and destroyed by the communist regime

Six years long night

1970