
Directing
Mircea Veroiu
Born 1941-04-29 · Tirgu Jiu
Mircea Veroiu was born on April 29, 1941 in Tirgu Jiu, Romania. He was a director and actor, known for Nunta de piatra (1972), Craii de Curtea Veche (1995) and Duhul aurului (1974). He died in December 1997.
Acting credits
7.2Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.
Stefan Luchian
1981
8.2This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
The Power and The Truth
1972
6.5In the early 19th century the Romanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "phalansteries" in Rumania. The film dramatizes the origins and demise of this effort, called the "Scaieni Phalanstery (the term is derived from "phalanx" and "monastery"). Among the socio-political commentary that is conveyed throughout, there is an important collusion between the army and the wealthy landowners of the time, and as the film points out in its own way, neither of these groups has ever been convicted of socialist/utopian tendencies.
Phalanstery
1979
5.5America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie...
Armed and Very Dangerous
1978
7.9At 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
6.8A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.
The Conspiracy
1973
7.0Two couriers from a camp show up to communicate with the communists, when there should be only one. Which one is the impersonator sent by Germans?
Evening Guests
1976
Behind the camera
7.0This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.
The Sign of the Serpent
1981
7.1Pasadia, Pantazi, and Cara team up with the ruffian Pîrgu, because “everything is vanity”. For these princes of lost nights, the only sacred thing is friendship, and “the mutt” is the best guide on a journey through the night.
The Old Court Libertines
1996
7.1Pasadia, Pantazi, and Cara team up with the ruffian Pîrgu, because “everything is vanity”. For these princes of lost nights, the only sacred thing is friendship, and “the mutt” is the best guide on a journey through the night.
The Old Court Libertines
1996
7.1A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man.
The End of the Night
1982
7.2Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
The Stone Wedding
1973
7.2Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
The Stone Wedding
1973
7.8The woman in red is Ana Cumpanas, a Romanian emigrated to the US, which facilitates the killing of her lover, the famous gangster John Dillinger in Chicago. After an adventurous life, the woman returns to die in her homeland.
The Woman in Red
1997
6.2Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.
Beyond the Bridge
1975
6.2Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.
Beyond the Bridge
1975
6.3Thea, a researcher from an institute for nuclear studies, leaves for a vacation but ends up on an adventure at the boundary between fantasy and reality. On the TV screen the image of a man appears who disappeared 20 years ago after a nuclear explosion. She falls in love with this picture and convinces a colleague and close friend that they can bring back the man who disappeared through a strange reverse process. Her only way to communicate with this picture however is via the TV screen, and her love can only be communicated through dreaming.
Hyperion
1975
6.5The topic of the film points out the condition of an intellectual in time of totalitarian dictatorship, which subjugated an island from where you can not run. The only alternative is collaborating with power and internment in a rehabilitation institute. A famous writer returns to his homeland to try to confront the terror of an oppressive regime, but he ends up being himself corrupted-thanks to the aberrant system.
Somnul insulei
1994
6.5The topic of the film points out the condition of an intellectual in time of totalitarian dictatorship, which subjugated an island from where you can not run. The only alternative is collaborating with power and internment in a rehabilitation institute. A famous writer returns to his homeland to try to confront the terror of an oppressive regime, but he ends up being himself corrupted-thanks to the aberrant system.
Somnul insulei
1994
7.3The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.
Lust for Gold
1974
7.3The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.
Lust for Gold
1974
7.8Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
1978
7.3The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank.
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
1978
8.5The story of the film is inspired by Camil Petrescu's novel, The Last Night of Love, The First Night of War. The lives of two friends, intellectuals, are troubled by the outbreak of war and the awareness that each must adopt a position on the political and social problems the country is going through.
Between parallel mirrors
1979
6.6The story of two men working with the underground movement in 1934.
To Die Wounded By The Love Of Life
1983
6.2After Romania changed alliances in August 23rd, 1944, a group of soldiers have the mission to stop a military train.
Waiting for a Train
1982
6.2The story of an impossible love: doctor Emil Codrescu is reunited 20 years later with Adela, the one he had only known as a young girl. The two fall in love, but circumstances and hesitation prevent them from getting closer.
Adela
1985
6.2The story of an impossible love: doctor Emil Codrescu is reunited 20 years later with Adela, the one he had only known as a young girl. The two fall in love, but circumstances and hesitation prevent them from getting closer.
Adela
1985
6.8The film shows the catastrophic floods in Romania in 1970.
Water Like a Black Buffalo
1970
6.8The film shows the catastrophic floods in Romania in 1970.
Water Like a Black Buffalo
1970
5.7This movie presents 7 days of a secret agent's life. Unlike most other movies that glamorize secret agents, this one shows the routine, nitty gritty work.
Seven Days
1973