
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
7.7The 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
8.8Docu-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
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
5.1The 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
10.0Two 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
8.0Inspired 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
7.7The 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
8.8Docu-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
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
5.1The 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
10.0Two 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
8.0Inspired 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
8.0Inspired 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
6.0Mihai 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
6.0Mihai 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
10.02005 Romanian film
Second Hand
2005
10.02005 Romanian film
Second Hand
2005
6.6Hristea, 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
7.0Andrei 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
4.5A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.
I Am Adam
1996
4.5A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.
I Am Adam
1996
7.6Two 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
7.3A 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
6.1The 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
6.1The 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
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
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
6.5The 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
6.5The 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
8.0The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
A Summer Tale
1976
7.0Ioanide, 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
8.0In 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
8.0In 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
6.0An 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
6.0An 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
7.0Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
Filip the Kind
1975
6.5Filmed 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
6.5Filmed 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
NRA 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
NRA 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
7.0An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Contest
1982
7.0An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Contest
1982
6.4A 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
