Dan Pița

Directing

Dan Pița

Born

1938-10-11 (88)

Place of birth

Dorohoi, Botoșani, România

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Dan Pița (Romanian pronunciation: [dan ˈpit͡sa]; born 11 October 1938 in Dorohoi, Botoșani County, Romania) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Pița has directed several award-winning films since 1970, including the 1985 hit Pas în doi, which won an Honourable Mention at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1992, Pița also won the Silver Lion (Leone d'Argento) at the 49th Venice Film Festival for Hotel de Lux.

Known for

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians poster
7.7

The third part of the trilogy focuses on June and Romulus, who are having a baby. The misfortune delays the family's plans to move back to Transylvania. Things get even more complicated when Traian, one of the Brad brothers set out in search of water on his land, discovers crude oil.

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians

1981

This Above All poster
8.8

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government.

This Above All

1978

The Stone Wedding poster
7.2

Two 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

The Woman in the Dream poster
5.1

The story of a famous director, Thomas, at the peak of his career, obsessed by the ills of the woman he desires, but also by his creative problems. Although his films are award-winning and he is loved by audiences, actors and friends, Thomas is tormented by the desire to make the movie of his life.

The Woman in the Dream

2005

Something Good From Life poster
10.0

Two young people raised in an orphanage struggle to find meaning and direction in their lives amidst the chaos of post-communist Romania's transition.

Something Good From Life

2011

Chained Justice poster
8.0

Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.

Chained Justice

1984

Behind the camera

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians poster
7.7

The third part of the trilogy focuses on June and Romulus, who are having a baby. The misfortune delays the family's plans to move back to Transylvania. Things get even more complicated when Traian, one of the Brad brothers set out in search of water on his land, discovers crude oil.

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians

1981

This Above All poster
8.8

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government.

This Above All

1978

The Stone Wedding poster
7.2

Two 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

The Stone Wedding poster
7.2

Two 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

The Woman in the Dream poster
5.1

The story of a famous director, Thomas, at the peak of his career, obsessed by the ills of the woman he desires, but also by his creative problems. Although his films are award-winning and he is loved by audiences, actors and friends, Thomas is tormented by the desire to make the movie of his life.

The Woman in the Dream

2005

Something Good From Life poster
10.0

Two young people raised in an orphanage struggle to find meaning and direction in their lives amidst the chaos of post-communist Romania's transition.

Something Good From Life

2011

Chained Justice poster
8.0

Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.

Chained Justice

1984

Chained Justice poster
8.0

Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.

Chained Justice

1984

Passo Doble poster
6.0

Mihai is a worker navigating the complexities of youth, factory life, and a deep friendship while finding himself emotionally torn as he falls in love with two very different women.

Passo Doble

1985

Passo Doble poster
6.0

Mihai is a worker navigating the complexities of youth, factory life, and a deep friendship while finding himself emotionally torn as he falls in love with two very different women.

Passo Doble

1985

Second Hand poster
10.0

2005 Romanian film

Second Hand

2005

Second Hand poster
10.0

2005 Romanian film

Second Hand

2005

Sand Cliffs poster
6.6

Hristea, a surgeon, spends his holidays at the seaside. While on the beach his belongings are stolen. The surgeon tells the policeman that the thief is a young man he had seen nearby. Although the accused doesn't admit to the wrongdoing, Hristea insists he should be punished. His obstinance will affect his marriage with his beautiful wife.

Sand Cliffs

1983

The Man of the Day poster
7.0

Andrei is the head of a political party, a member of parliament and, at the same time, a prosperous businessman. He stopped being young a good number of years ago, but his love affair with the beautiful dancer Ana gives him the feeling of a second youth. On their way back from a mountain getaway, Andrei's car causes an accident, killing one man and injuring another. The victims were all former colleagues of Ana's band, and the deceased was Ana's boyfriend. The investigation into the cause of the accident and especially the statements of the survivor incriminate Andrei.

The Man of the Day

1997

I Am Adam poster
4.5

A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.

I Am Adam

1996

I Am Adam poster
4.5

A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.

I Am Adam

1996

The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians poster
7.6

Two 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

The White Lace Dress poster
7.3

A doctor, a sculptor and a football player trying to win the love of desenatoare models, suffering from incurable disease. But this does not preclude it from working on hand in a clothes factory. Of the three candidate, the young woman prefers the more modest, based with the family.

The White Lace Dress

1989

Pepe and Fifi poster
6.1

The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.

Pepe and Fifi

1994

Pepe and Fifi poster
6.1

The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.

Pepe and Fifi

1994

Lust for Gold poster
7.3

The 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

Lust for Gold poster
7.3

The 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

Water Like a Black Buffalo poster
6.8

The film shows the catastrophic floods in Romania in 1970.

Water Like a Black Buffalo

1970

Water Like a Black Buffalo poster
6.8

The film shows the catastrophic floods in Romania in 1970.

Water Like a Black Buffalo

1970

The Last Ball in November poster
6.5

The film is the story of Prince Cantacuzin’s hidden love for his pupil he mentored since early adolescence, until her being married by her stepfather. Daria Mazu, coming from an unfortunate family, with an epileptic brother and a drunker stepfather.

The Last Ball in November

1989

The Last Ball in November poster
6.5

The film is the story of Prince Cantacuzin’s hidden love for his pupil he mentored since early adolescence, until her being married by her stepfather. Daria Mazu, coming from an unfortunate family, with an epileptic brother and a drunker stepfather.

The Last Ball in November

1989

A Summer Tale poster
8.0

The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.

A Summer Tale

1976

Poor Ioanide poster
7.0

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has "on file" the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.

Poor Ioanide

1980

An Ordinary Afternoon poster
8.0

In a humble hotel room, a young railwayman is preparing for a meeting with a girl we never see because she never arrives.

An Ordinary Afternoon

1968

An Ordinary Afternoon poster
8.0

In a humble hotel room, a young railwayman is preparing for a meeting with a girl we never see because she never arrives.

An Ordinary Afternoon

1968

Luxury Hotel poster
6.0

An ambitious young manager's plans to reform and revitalize a fading luxury hotel are abruptly thwarted by his superiors, leading to his demotion and exile to the basement, where he navigates the institution's rigid social hierarchy and rigid system of control.

Luxury Hotel

1992

Luxury Hotel poster
6.0

An ambitious young manager's plans to reform and revitalize a fading luxury hotel are abruptly thwarted by his superiors, leading to his demotion and exile to the basement, where he navigates the institution's rigid social hierarchy and rigid system of control.

Luxury Hotel

1992

Filip the Kind poster
7.0

Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.

Filip the Kind

1975

Life in Pink poster
6.5

Filmed exclusively outdoors, without dialogues, 'Life in Pink' presents a mysterious pursuit between two young handsome men. Their motivation is not clear, nor the type of relationship they have, nor whether they knew each other beforehand or not. But there's a certain fascination between them, even a possible attraction, one of an erotic nature.

Life in Pink

1969

Life in Pink poster
6.5

Filmed exclusively outdoors, without dialogues, 'Life in Pink' presents a mysterious pursuit between two young handsome men. Their motivation is not clear, nor the type of relationship they have, nor whether they knew each other beforehand or not. But there's a certain fascination between them, even a possible attraction, one of an erotic nature.

Life in Pink

1969

Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu poster
NR

A parable about honor and true character, inspired by the reality of the 18th century. Constantin Brâncoveanu preferred to be beheaded in Constantinople alongside his four sons - Constantin, Stefan, Radu, and Matei - as well as by his counselor Ianache Vacarescu, instead of renouncing the Christian faith.

Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu

2024

Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu poster
NR

A parable about honor and true character, inspired by the reality of the 18th century. Constantin Brâncoveanu preferred to be beheaded in Constantinople alongside his four sons - Constantin, Stefan, Radu, and Matei - as well as by his counselor Ianache Vacarescu, instead of renouncing the Christian faith.

Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu

2024

Contest poster
7.0

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.

Contest

1982

Contest poster
7.0

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.

Contest

1982

Kira Kiralina poster
6.4

A movie adaptation of the eponymous novel by Panait Istrati, which tells the story of a mysterious, beautiful woman which, together with her mom, is selling her charms. The movie is filled with the atmosphere of Brăila in the 1900s

Kira Kiralina

2014