Toma Caragiu

Acting

Toma Caragiu

Born — Died

1925-08-21 — 1977-03-04

Place of birth

Ploieşti, Prahova, România

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 24 titles

The Making of the World poster
7.4

Around the nationalization in 1948, a worker's daughter, as a student, is attracted by the social life offered by a breed horse owner. The relationship will sour by the cruelty with which he kills the horses, rather then give them away.

The Making of the World

1971

The Loneliness of Flowers poster
6.3

A lonely, selfish and proud doctor receives a bouquet of flowers one day that sets him on fire. An unassuming cab driver, a family man and devoted colleague, helps him to identify the sender and find himself.

The Loneliness of Flowers

1976

Ciprian Porumbescu poster
6.2

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

Ciprian Porumbescu

1973

Operation 'The Monster' poster
8.3

A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.

Operation 'The Monster'

1976

The Premiere poster
8.2

In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.

The Premiere

1976

We Do Not Film Just for Fun poster
7.0

This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.

We Do Not Film Just for Fun

1975

The Great Solitary poster
6.5

Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.

The Great Solitary

1977

Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert poster
7.2

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

1971

Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea poster
7.7

Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way

Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea

1971

Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In poster
7.9

Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.

Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In

1970

The Mace with Three Seals poster
6.9

At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.

The Mace with Three Seals

1977

Totally Unprepared 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.

Totally Unprepared

1977

Love Begins on Friday poster
6.2

A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory.

Love Begins on Friday

1972

Penelope's Condition poster
8.0

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.

Penelope's Condition

1976

The Week of the Madmen poster
7.6

The last part of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 6 of the Outlaws series. In the Week of Fools, Anghel's band exchanges Lady Ralu's dowry for arms for Tudor of Vladimiri's army, which they decide to join. Although captured by Mamoulos and savagely tortured by his men, Șaptecai escapes from the dungeon and goes on his way. With the help of Anița, the Răspopitul, Parpanghel and other fellow outlaws, Anghel finally sees his dream come true.

The Week of the Madmen

1971

Serenade for the 12th Floor poster
4.0

Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood.

Serenade for the 12th Floor

1976

Three Secret Letters poster
6.2

A director of a shipyard abusively fires a foreman who has opposing ideas.

Three Secret Letters

1974

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

The Dowry of Lady Ralu poster
7.4

Part two of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 5 of the Outlaws series. After a spectacular escape plotted by Anița, Răspopitul and Parpanghel, Captain Anghel sets off once again on the money trail. Kidnapping Caliopi, Șaptecai demands the jewels her husband Ianis bought in Vienna in exchange for her release. After a series of spectacular events, Anghel succeeds in stealing Lady Ralu's precious dowry.

The Dowry of Lady Ralu

1972

The Prodigal Father poster
7.4

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

The Prodigal Father

1974

The Poseidon Explosion poster
6.5

A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city

The Poseidon Explosion

1973

The Actor and the Savages poster
7.9

At Bucharest’s famous revue theater “Vox,” director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite growing threats from the Iron Guard. As pressure and violence escalate, he and his collaborators face persecution, turning their artistic resistance into an act of courage and sacrifice.

The Actor and the Savages

1975

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

The Outlaws of Sevenhorses poster
7.1

The third movie in the Haiducii series, set in Muntenia during the Phanariote period. Lady Ralu needs a million galbeni to buy a jewelry collection from Vienna. In order to satisfy her desire, the Phanariot ruler institutes the "birul vacăritului" (the tax on the cowherd), impoverishing the people. The band of outlaws led by Anghel Șaptecai, after the death of Captain Amza, tries to recover the galbeni, forcibly taken from the tormented people. In the end, captain Mamulos catches Anghel and sends him to the pit.

The Outlaws of Sevenhorses

1971

1960s · 15 titles

Forest of the Hanged poster
6.6

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

Forest of the Hanged

1965

Merriment Ward poster
6.7

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

Merriment Ward

1964

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7.0

A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.

Underneath the Surface

1967

The Outlaws poster
7.6

First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.

The Outlaws

1966

The Teacher's Correspondence poster
6.8

A subpoena on perception turns the life of a teacher upside down when he finds himself taxed for what he never even had: two buffalo. Because of the aberrant bureaucracy, he can't even get rid of the fictitious cuckolds...

The Teacher's Correspondence

1966

Snowfall Season poster
5.7

Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village.

Snowfall Season

1966

White Trial poster
7.0

Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend. Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen Barbu.

White Trial

1966

Streets Have Memories poster
5.8

During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.

Streets Have Memories

1962

I Don't Want to Get Married poster
8.5

In a textile factory, the cultural supervisor falls in love with a typist. To impress her, he pretends to be friends with a famous composer whose operetta was to be performed by the company's artistic brigade. However, the typist, an uneducated woman, sees him only as a means to become the protected one of an influential person.

I Don't Want to Get Married

1961

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

Chief of the Souls Sector poster
7.4

Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena.

Chief of the Souls Sector

1967

Politica cu… delicatese poster
10.0

Adapted from the sketch by Ion Luca Caragiale. A fine irony on pre-war politicism, which manages, through gastronomic means, to ridicule an entire political class.

Politica cu… delicatese

1964

Pisciculture poster
6.5

A comedy that starts from a simple gag, one with social connotations, though (“They brought fish at Leonida’s!”), exploring the self-ironical and surreal potential of the state of things with fantasy.

Pisciculture

1968

The Revenge of the Outlaws poster
6.8

Second of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.

The Revenge of the Outlaws

1968

Sentimental Story poster
6.5

Georgie, a young talented and respected doctor, leaves his job at a hospital in the capital and goes to work in a remote fishing village. Georgie has a hard time in the new place, where the fishermen prefer the witch doctor to the doctor. Boredom and unsettled life irritate his wife Irina, and she returns to the city. After some time, when Georgie managed to defeat the distrust of the fishermen, win their respect and love, he persuaded Irina to return. During a noisy and merry celebration, Irina carelessly climbed a precipitous bank and fell to her death.

Sentimental Story

1962

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