Acting

Vasile Nițulescu

Born — Died

1925-04-24 — 1991-02-11

Place of birth

Bucureşti, Romania

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Full Sail poster
8.8

Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures of two friends, the Romanian Anton Lupan and the French Pierre Vaillant. Anton Lupan tries to find the L'Esperance schooner, which belonged to them, wiyhout knowing that it was a victim of a pirate attack. But he hopes in particular to find Pierre, so they can start on a trip to an uncharted land, which they attempted several times to explore unsuccessfully. He found the ship, but his friend was nowhere to be found. Anton was forced to leave on a trip across Atlantic, to Tierra del Fuego.

Full Sail

1977

The Dacians poster
7.1

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.

The Dacians

1967

The Brodcast Continues poster
6.8

Based on actual events which happened at the Radio Romania station in Bod-Brasov, during the beginning of the revolution for social liberation and for the country's national liberation, an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist revolution, on August 23, 1944. After King Michael I ousts the Nazi-allied dictator Ion Antonescu, Nazi troops struggle to recapture the Radio Romania station, their former headquarters in an attempt to regroup their forces, but are opposed by a determined band of anti-fascist fighters.

The Brodcast Continues

1985

The Punishment poster
7.3

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

The Punishment

1976

Repeated Wedding poster
8.3

Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.

Repeated Wedding

1985

The Thirst poster
6.5

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

The Thirst

1960

Film credits

1980s · 19 titles

The Brodcast Continues poster
6.8

Based on actual events which happened at the Radio Romania station in Bod-Brasov, during the beginning of the revolution for social liberation and for the country's national liberation, an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist revolution, on August 23, 1944. After King Michael I ousts the Nazi-allied dictator Ion Antonescu, Nazi troops struggle to recapture the Radio Romania station, their former headquarters in an attempt to regroup their forces, but are opposed by a determined band of anti-fascist fighters.

The Brodcast Continues

1985

Repeated Wedding poster
8.3

Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.

Repeated Wedding

1985

The Mysteries of Bucharest poster
6.7

The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societies are working to chase away the Prince Gheorge Bibescu from his throne, arms are transported on secret ways, preparing the first popular revolts in Bucharest, as the first act of the Revolution of 1848, which revolution is the first impulse of the later act of the Union of the Wallachia with Moldova (Romanian United Principalities in 1862, Kingdom of Romania in 1881 and Kingdom of Greater Romania 1918, with Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia).

The Mysteries of Bucharest

1983

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

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

The Gold Diggers poster
6.5

Old man John Tarwater and young lawyer Elam Harnish, gripped by the "gold fever" leave for Alaska, embarking on the adventure of a new hard and torturous life, which, due to famine, John Tarwater falls victim to.

The Gold Diggers

1986

Stefan Luchian poster
7.2

Recreating 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

Mountains in Flames poster
6.8

1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.

Mountains in Flames

1980

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NR

Pavel is a teenager who has been just released from prison, unsuccessful in overcoming his guilt over a car accident which killed both of his parents. His reintegration in society is met with difficulty, the boy only having a few friends who still understand him, a painter and a sailor.

Alone on Watch

1983

Starting Over poster
6.8

Traumatized by the loss of his wife, Vasile, an engineer, joins a new work collective in the provinces, at the ARO factory. Saddened by his loneliness, Cristina overcomes his resistance by becoming close to his little boy.

Starting Over

1987

Promisses poster
7.8

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.

Promisses

1985

Călifar's Mill poster
7.8

Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoica.

Călifar's Mill

1984

Flames Over Treasures poster
6.8

Deep in the Transylvanian Alps, the Archangels gold mine is the stage for an epic battle of characters. The arrogant owner is struggling with perceptions of ghosts in the mind of the miners. A maverick free-lance miner is helping him to find the source of terrifying noises that frightened his workers.

Flames Over Treasures

1988

The Silver Mask poster
7.1

Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure collected in order to buy the throne. However, the gold is recovered by Margelatu for the benefit of the "Brotherhood".

The Silver Mask

1985

Atkins poster
5.0

A Western set in the US around the turn of the century. Atkins leaves the city to return to the valley where he formerly lived. There he meets Native Americans who learn to trust him. They ask Atkins to buy weapons for them. On his journey Atkins meets Morris, whose interest in mineral resources puts Atkins loyalty to the Native Americans to the test.

Atkins

1985

Return from Hell poster
6.5

Two men depend on each other for survival in the first world war, but something in their past might prevent them to get along. Will they be able to put everything aside in order to survive?

Return from Hell

1983

Burebista poster
7.4

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Burebista

1980

Contest poster
7.0

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

Contest

1982

Încrederea poster
5.7

Andrei, an ambitious young man, comes to the capital to prove to his family that he can make his own way in life. Se angaaza intr-o intreprinza si-si face constiincicios duty until, because of his naivety, is involved in a murder.

Încrederea

1986

1970s · 19 titles

The Punishment poster
7.3

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

The Punishment

1976

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

The Green Grass of Home poster
6.6

After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.

The Green Grass of Home

1977

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

A Police Inspector Calls poster
7.7

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...

A Police Inspector Calls

1974

Saint Teresa and the Devils poster
7.5

September, 1944. A group of soldiers and resistance fighters set to blow up a viaduct of strategic value.

Saint Teresa and the Devils

1972

Doctor Poenaru poster
7.6

In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An ideological and philosophical dispute ensues, the two following different paths in life.

Doctor Poenaru

1978

Beyond the Sands poster
6.8

Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.

Beyond the Sands

1974

The Last Night of Loneliness poster
7.2

The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village.

The Last Night of Loneliness

1976

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

The Moment poster
5.4

This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed.

The Moment

1979

The Return of Magellan poster
6.0

A love story between a young communist in illegality and a girl who presents herself as Magellan.

The Return of Magellan

1974

Winter of the Goslings poster
7.3

A strange phenomenon is taking place in the village of Viișoara: the men have disappeared! Because they couldn't stand the tyranny of Varvara, who runs the agricultural cooperative, they preferred to get a job in a factory, but things don't go according to plan there either...

Winter of the Goslings

1977

Autumn of the Goslings poster
6.6

After graduating from college, three graduates, French teacher Mariella , doctor Ovidiu, and agricultural engineer Geo, set off without knowing each other for the village of Viișoara, 599 km from Bucharest, where they have been assigned jobs.

Autumn of the Goslings

1975

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

Sick Animals poster
6.5

The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclusions of which are eagerly awaited. After several attempts, a sergeant manages to catch the killer.

Sick Animals

1970

Phalanstery poster
6.5

In 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

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

Uncertain Roads poster
6.8

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.

Uncertain Roads

1979

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits