
Acting
Mihai Volontir
Born — Died
1934-03-09 — 2015-09-15
Place of birth
Glingeni, Bessarabia, Kingdom of Romania
Known for
Acting
Credits
34 titles
Glinzheni, Kingdom of Romania [now Moldova]
Known for
8.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
8.5For more than six months, Budulay, who had been brutally beaten by gangsters, had no memory. A chance encounter with his son Vanya, who had learned from his mother that his real father was Budulay, restored the boy's memory.
Return of Budulai
1986
6.5A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).
Return of Budulai
1986
6.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
4.5A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington.
The Centaurs
1979
5.2Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.
Deer Hunting
1982
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
9.0...1949. Baulin, a school principal in a small Moldovan town, is summoned at night to the district party committee. He is tasked with leading a group that is carrying out an action in the area to evict so-called fascist collaborators. We will see only a day in the life of the main character. He walks around the huts, sees people included in the “black lists”, understands that they could not possibly be traitors.
Knock on the Door
1990
7.0About the family, where both husband and wife are alcoholics. He trades stolen plumbing, she is experiencing his moral decline.
Am I Guilty?..
1992
1980s · 13 titles
6.5A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).
Return of Budulai
1986
6.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
5.2Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.
Deer Hunting
1982
9.0Alyoshin, a Soviet journalist working in Argentina, witnessed the kidnapping of photo correspondent.
Vilkolakio pedsakai
1987
6.0Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
Faithfulness We Pledge
1989
NROld friends, former front—line soldiers, suddenly quarreled in earnest: Peter Sorbu, the head of the carpet factory construction, quite sincerely believes that the factory should be built first, and the town for workers is the second thing; architect Anton Grecu also sincerely does not understand how people will fulfill the plan if they have nowhere to live, and in the end defends the priority construction of the town.
This Male Friendship
1983
8.0Nurse Yuliya and her husband Radu live happily, and the only thing they miss is children. Out of her kindness, Yuliya settled a new employee, Vera, in the house, who was experiencing a breakup with a loved one. It seemed that nothing could interfere with family happiness, but as luck would have it, Radu was bewitched by the beauty of Vera.
Be Happy, Yuliya!
1983
5.9Second movie of a dilogy about Russian paratroopers started with "V zone osobogo vnimaniya"
Return Move
1981
8.0The heroine of the film is an employee of an automobile factory, a person with a whole generous character. Always ready to help those who need her help, she doesn't worry about how her personal life is going, but she's quite happy.
I Am Responsible for You
1985
6.5The Soviet war film tells the story of the last raid by the Ukrainian partisan division named after S. A. Kovpak, led by P. P. Vershigora, into enemy territory in 1943-1944, its advance to the state border between the USSR and Poland, and its international assistance to the Polish people in their liberation from the fascist invaders.
From Bug to Vistula
1981
4.9Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.
Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
1982
7.0A car accident results in the death of the director of one of the region's leading car dealerships. Vasily Yarosh, an investigator in charge of particularly important cases, is tasked with uncovering the causes of the tragedy and determining its pattern...
Accusation
1984
7.5The film's heroine, the director of a large scientific and industrial association, one day comes to the conclusion that her personal life has not worked out…
The Only Man
1981
1970s · 15 titles
4.5A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington.
The Centaurs
1979
10.0The romantic vagrant, Moldovian Mihai Adam goes to Spain to be enlisted as volunteer fighter against the Franco regime.
This Is the Moment
1970
5.4Action film about the Soviet paratroopers.
In the Zone of Special Attention
1978
NROn his birthday, Andrei Răzlog, chairman of a large-scale Moldovan kolkhoz association and a former Red Army fighter, recalls his life, the main events of which are intertwined with his village's struggle against local kulakism and post-war devastation.
Men Are Greying Young
1974
5.5The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.
Sound of the Pipe
1975
10.0The war, with its immorality and cruelty, touched the foundations - the "bridges of life" - of a simple Moldovan village...
Bridges
1974
8.0Four short stories tell about the inhabitants of the Moldovan village of Redu Mare. Stefan, a former front-line cowman, returned from the army and found unpleasant changes for himself. His beloved girlfriend got married... Originally from Redu Mare, the hero of the second novel is the power juggler Ion Ciocanu. The third novel tells about a young rural saint. His love for a random girl he met awakened a craving for a "mundane" life. But Valentine is lucky... The film ends with a story about Toolbarel, a cheerful and wise old man. He appears in all the other novels.
Ten Winters in One Summer
1970
5.5American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
The Fourth
1972
5.2In an unnamed Latin American country after a coup d'état, a military junta comes to power. The army deployed to the streets, the civilian population is exposed to hard terror. A wave of arrests follows, some former senators - liberals and communists - are sent to prison. Some patriots that have gone underground try to figure a plan for their release. They buy a small shop opposite the prison in the name of Francisco and Maria Vardes. From its basement they plan to build a 90-meter tunnel. Three years of enormous effort, deaths and nervous breakdowns are not spent in vain.
That Sweet Word: Liberty!
1973
6.0Immediately after the war, veteran Vasile Karuntu came to the machine-building plant where Ion worked, who soon became a foreman. They both fell in love with Maria, but she married Vasile. With Maria, he created a family, raised four children, three of whom are adopted orphans. And now, many years after the first rivalry, the management of the plant releases Jonah from the foreman and appoints Vasile instead...
Don't Believe the Cry of a Night Bird
1977
6.7About the dramatic fate of provincial actress Larisa Dobrynina. The death of a friend, betrayal of her lover, failures on stage and heart disease caused her premature death.
Unanswered Love
1979
10.0The film is about the life of Dmitry Cantemir and the Moldovan people from November 1710 to July 1711. Turkish troops are preparing for war with Russia. The Sultan entrusted him with the throne of Moldavia. Cantemir secretly established ties with Peter I and concluded a military-political agreement with him, according to which Russia took Moldova under its protectorate, pledged to help expel the Turks and restore the former borders of the Moldovan state.
Dimitrie Cantemir
1974
6.5Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese acquaintance, asks to give her a souvenir from Moldova. In Vienna, Stefan is met by people who are well aware of his private life and even familiar with his diary. The musician begins to suspect something is wrong, but when his daughter's well-being is threatened, Stefan becomes truly worried...
Agent of the Secret Service
1979
8.0Fascinated by the idea of creating an industrial inter-collective farm garden, scientist Andrei Barbu interrupts his work at the institute and moves to the district...
Root of Life
1978
8.0For a long time, the chairman of the collective farm, Andrei Spirya, has been dreaming of moving the village, which lies in a lowland and is often flooded by floods, to the mountain. Some of the collective farmers are against resettlement. Suddenly, a severe flood occurred, which caused a lot of destruction.
The Steepness
1971
1960s · 2 titles
NRThey are rural teachers, people of inquisitive thought and high moral duty. It is not easy for them, because they have no right to make mistakes, the younger generation looks up to them, fellow villagers look up to them.
Alone in the Face of Love
1969
8.0A film about the former village of Crasna Putnei, located near Vicovu de Sus, Suceava County. The figuration was made by the villagers from Crasna, with the beautiful traditional Romanian costumes from Bucovina.
Looking for a Guard
1968
Series credits
8.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
8.5For more than six months, Budulay, who had been brutally beaten by gangsters, had no memory. A chance encounter with his son Vanya, who had learned from his mother that his real father was Budulay, restored the boy's memory.
Return of Budulai
1986
