Mihai Volontir

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

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

Return of Budulai poster
6.5

A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).

Return of Budulai

1986

Gypsy poster
6.0

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.

Gypsy

1980

Deer Hunting poster
5.2

Spring 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

Vilkolakio pedsakai poster
9.0

Alyoshin, a Soviet journalist working in Argentina, witnessed the kidnapping of photo correspondent.

Vilkolakio pedsakai

1987

Faithfulness We Pledge poster
6.0

Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War

Faithfulness We Pledge

1989

This Male Friendship poster
NR

Old 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

Be Happy, Yuliya! poster
8.0

Nurse 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

Return Move poster
5.9

Second movie of a dilogy about Russian paratroopers started with "V zone osobogo vnimaniya"

Return Move

1981

I Am Responsible for You poster
8.0

The 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

From Bug to Vistula poster
6.5

The 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

Incident at Map-Grid 36-80 poster
4.9

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

Incident at Map-Grid 36-80

1982

Accusation poster
7.0

A 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

The Only Man poster
7.5

The 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

The Centaurs poster
4.5

A 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

This Is the Moment poster
10.0

The romantic vagrant, Moldovian Mihai Adam goes to Spain to be enlisted as volunteer fighter against the Franco regime.

This Is the Moment

1970

In the Zone of Special Attention poster
5.4

Action film about the Soviet paratroopers.

In the Zone of Special Attention

1978

Men Are Greying Young poster
NR

On 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

Sound of the Pipe poster
5.5

The 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

Bridges poster
10.0

The war, with its immorality and cruelty, touched the foundations - the "bridges of life" - of a simple Moldovan village...

Bridges

1974

Ten Winters in One Summer poster
8.0

Four 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

The Fourth poster
5.5

American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...

The Fourth

1972

That Sweet Word: Liberty! poster
5.2

In 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

Don't Believe the Cry of a Night Bird poster
6.0

Immediately 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

Unanswered Love poster
6.7

About 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

Dimitrie Cantemir poster
10.0

The 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

Agent of the Secret Service poster
6.5

Musician 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

Root of Life poster
8.0

Fascinated 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

The Steepness poster
8.0

For 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

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