Rodica Lazăr

Acting

Rodica Lazăr

Born 1978-10-30 · Onești, Bacău, Romania

Rodica Lazăr graduated from acting section of UNATC in 2001 and she is hired at Bulandra theater at the same year, where she works to this day. Her first big movie was in 2002 when she worked with Costa Gavras on "Amen".

Acting credits

Youth Without Youth poster
6.1

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

Youth Without Youth

2007

Amen. poster
7.0

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

Amen.

2002

Hawaii poster
7.2

Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.

Hawaii

2017

The Whistlers poster
6.0

A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.

The Whistlers

2019

The Last Day poster
8.0

Adrian, a man from a provincial town, has decided to start a new life as a monk. The mayor, the policeman and the leader of the Christian Youth Association accompany their friend on his way to the monastery.

The Last Day

2017

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu poster
7.4

After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

2005

Seven Months Later poster
6.0

One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.

Seven Months Later

2016

Weekend poster
NR

The summer is ending and the long weekend has just begun.

Weekend

Horizon poster
5.4

Trying to find their luck, husband and wife, Lucian and Andra start a new business by managing a guesthouse hidden somewhere deep in the mountains.

Horizon

2015

Kowalski poster
6.2

Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance.

Kowalski

2014

Elena's Shift poster
NR

Elena, a Romanian single mother in Athens, dreams of a better future and a sense of belonging she has long been denied. When she is unjustly fired, her fragile world collapses, and her long-suppressed activist spirit awakens. Determined to seek justice, she turns to Yota, a charismatic lawyer, and discovers a bond that rekindles her desire to live, to open her heart, and to raise her head with dignity. As Elena confronts systemic injustice and fights to reclaim her voice, she will have to courageously decide what matters most: her family, her ideals, or the chance to love again.

Elena's Shift

2025

No artwork available
NR

Five old friends spend a few days together in the resort they used to go in their youth. One of them will bring news that will perturb their holiday.

Rusalka

2024

No artwork available
NR

Sorin comes at his former wife to spend the Christmas with their son. Under the pressure of the past conflicts, Sorin locks himself in the bathroom. Things gets out of control when family members come to see what's happening.

Family reunion

2012

Bless You, Prison poster
6.2

Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.

Bless You, Prison

2002

The French Revolution poster
5.8

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments, illustrations, and paintings from the era, plus revealing accounts from journals and expert commentary from historians, The French Revolution vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence, discontent, and fundamental change. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast of thousands in this essential program from THE HISTORY CHANNEL®. Narrated by Edward Herrmann (The Aviator, Gilmore Girls), The French Revolution explores the legacy that--now more than ever--stands as both a warning and a guidepost to a new millennium

The French Revolution

2005

A Place Among the Living poster
6.5

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

A Place Among the Living

2003

Ramona poster
5.0

On a seemingly normal evening, a young girl has the misfortune of encountering the wrong people. For her, this turns into a nightmare in which she is not even sure if she will survive the night...

Ramona

2015

Live poster
6.8

Ema is the successful TV anchor of a national TV broadcaster, the star of a popular tabloid show. A perfectionist, she has no hesitation in putting at steak her health or money for higher ratings.

Live

2015

Parabellum poster
5.3

Seven months after their divorce, Ducu pays Maria one last visit...

Parabellum

2018

No artwork available
6.0

Four people meet in a bar. Two of them know exactly why they are there. The third has a pretty good idea. The fourth is in for a bit of a shock...

In the Shadow of Men

2018

The Childhood of Icarus poster
5.5

Jonathan Vogel (Guillaume Depardieu) would like to turn back the clock and undo the accident that led to his disability and destroyed his life. When he learns that Stivlas Karr (Carlo Brandt), a well-known professor and geneticist, has developed a gene therapy for regenerating the human body, he makes an appointment with him for some clinical tests. But the therapy doesnt go according to Professor Karrs plan and leads to unexpected results. Jonathan, whose life is now in danger, has become aware that there is only one person who can help him: Alice (Alysson Paradis), the professors daughter.

The Childhood of Icarus

2010

Ext. Car. Night poster
10.0

A bloody thriller (sort of Agatha Christie does The Twilight Zone) morphs into its own “making of”, a really talky one - a conversation about film, about fear, about fiction. The type of film where the less you know, the better. The title is almost a malaprop - a better one would’ve been F for Fake, but it was already taken. Howard Hawks said that a great movie needs three good scenes and no bad ones. This movie has only three scenes - so there you go.

Ext. Car. Night

2024

Dear Santa Claus poster
7.7

When a couple returns to their apartment building on Christmas Eve, they find a man dressed as Santa Claus trying to break into their neighbor's apartment.

Dear Santa Claus

2018

Girasoli poster
6.8

1963. The young nurse Anna begins working in the juvenile ward of a mental hospital. There she meets Lucia, a fifteen-year-old schizophrenic. Against the backdrop of a struggle between Dr. Marie and the rigid Dr. Oreste to reform patient treatment, a relationship between Anna and Lucia develops, forcing them to make decisive choices for their respective lives.

Girasoli

2024