
Acting
Dem Rădulescu
Born — Died
1931-09-21 — 2000-09-17
Place of birth
Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
Known for
Acting
Credits
59 titles
Known for
10.0Anita travels to Bucharest to see her musician boyfriend, but a magical pair of glasses changes the way she sees the world. As she explores the city, she begins to question what's real and what love truly means..
One Day in Bucharest
1987
8.0It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.
Dănilă Prepeleac
1996
6.0Two little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep catching fire, and a butterfly who's afraid of flying. To help their new friends, the girls must carry them to a sorceress who lives deep in the forest.
Maria, Mirabella
1982
7.5It is 1944, german troops are in retreat. These troops were using a communication station and a cypher. The mission is to acquire the cypher...
The Secret Code
1960
5.6A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Circus Performers
1981
NRThe fate of an ordinary and honest man who entered, without permission, into the electoral mixer of interwar Romanian political life, which manipulated him into the state of a certain victim.
Titanic Vals
1992
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
8.5Provincial atmosphere. The conflicts, customs and morals of a family of merchants from Craiova unwittingly destroy the love and even the life of a vulnerable young girl through her naivety and romanticism.
Gaițele
2005
NRCollection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made.
Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
2003
Scenes from Dem Radulescu's life work
Momente de Aur: Dem Rădulescu
2009
1990s · 4 titles
8.0It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.
Dănilă Prepeleac
1996
NRThe fate of an ordinary and honest man who entered, without permission, into the electoral mixer of interwar Romanian political life, which manipulated him into the state of a certain victim.
Titanic Vals
1992
6.2A few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet by chance in Poiana Brașov.
Harababura
1990
7.2Caught up in the crazes of the "transition", Suflețel also dreams of great adventure. When he learns that his old friend Ismail is his son's real father, Suflețel plans to flee the country. But in Istanbul, he stumbles upon the miraculous money machine...
The Second Fall of Constantinople
1994
1980s · 18 titles
10.0Anita travels to Bucharest to see her musician boyfriend, but a magical pair of glasses changes the way she sees the world. As she explores the city, she begins to question what's real and what love truly means..
One Day in Bucharest
1987
6.0Two little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep catching fire, and a butterfly who's afraid of flying. To help their new friends, the girls must carry them to a sorceress who lives deep in the forest.
Maria, Mirabella
1982
5.6A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Circus Performers
1981
7.0On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.
Romantic Destinies
1981
7.7In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
Circus Performers at the North Pole
1984
6.0Three mice regularly clash with a group of cats. One day, Eye Patch the cat hurls a book at them. The mice see it is Alexandre Dumas' "Three Musketeers" and after reading it decide to imitate the exploits and adventures of the famous trio.
The Amazing Adventures of the Musketeers
1988
7.9An important man, always in a hurry, but especially when behind the wheel, runs over a strange pedestrian: a young globe-trotting, absent-minded young man who is treading firmly, but in the wrong place, on the wide road. After hesitating for a moment, the man behind the wheel turns back to the scene and can't find his victim. Out of nowhere, however, the victim appears in the man's life, upsetting an entire family with dramatic and comic-sentimental entanglements.
Hurry Slowly
1981
7.7Pretentious Chirita weaves big matrimonial plans, because oh, oh what a pain / to have unmarried girls!. Dissatisfied with the boyars who aspire to the hand of her daughters, she descends in Iasi with the opportunity to find them better suitors. Entanglements, chases, travesties, fainting, tricks, twirls, romances, serenades, a king of triviality given as humor and irony.
Chirița în Iași
1988
7.1A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Blackmail
1981
Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
I have an Idea
1981
7.8Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
The Secret of Bacchus
1984
6.8In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them. She favors a peaceful knight, while her father and his advisors like the ones carrying around a lot of weapons.
The Secret of the Secret Weapon
1988
7.9The Bârzoi manor comes back to life when the lady of the house, Chirița, sends news that she will be soon coming back from Paris. As the City of Light has changed her views on the world, the family and the help must follow.
Cucoana Chirița
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Țepi V
1980
6.8In a Transylvanian village, a pastor tries to convert a local peasant to his religion, for personal interests.
Happy Lament
1984
NRAcid political satire with minimal means. In a patriarchal slum, high political issues are debated. As "heroic" as Garibaldi, poor Leonidas hides under the table for fear of the reaction, which turns out to be a simple party of revelers.
Conu Leonida fata cu reactiunea
1985
8.0A film adaptation of Aurel Baranga. A satire that targets the careerism, licentiousness and imposture of some people with "positions of responsibility", who make their position a means of parvenire.
Sfântul Mitică Blajinul
1982
7.0Fifteen years later, Viișoara has not changed much: the shepherd remains the same lonely character, Varvara the same energetic woman caught in complicated administrative tasks, Toderaș with his palinca hidden in the barn and his fading authority, elders wise and active, young people enthusiastic—but not all of them.
Spring of the Goslings
1987
1970s · 18 titles
7.7Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea
1971
6.6This blend of comedy and psycho-drama is comprised of two disturbing stories. The first tells the tale of a robot who is set to Earth by his home planet to discover new energy sources. In the second a boy is sent into deep space as part of an inhuman experiment designed to create the perfect human.
A Fantastic Comedy
1975
7.2The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
1971
8.2In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.
The Premiere
1976
4.0Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood.
Serenade for the 12th Floor
1976
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Fair-Play
1977
7.9Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.
Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In
1970
5.7A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime. The Black Sea coast and the city of Constanta, in the height of the summer season, as well as the pearls of Romanian tourism, the resorts of Mangalia, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Olimp, offer a more than generous setting for a comedy with songs and dances, with beautiful boys and girls, with important ladies and gentlemen, with adventurers, for one day or for several days, with tangled suitcases, functions and destinies, in a turbulent humoristic atmosphere.
I, You, and Ovidiu
1978
6.7Veronica is a flighty girl who lives in an orphanage. At the age of 5, a fairy godmother gives her a charmed bag, which can fulfill every wish.
Veronica
1972
6.8The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.
Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
1972
Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.
The Brothers
1971
6.4Veronica returns to the forest to rescue the duckling kidnapped by Madame Fox. Along the way, she arrives in the Kingdom of Insects, where she embarks on an adventure filled with music and dance. Together with Aurică and her new friend, Cricket, she tries to rescue the duckling from the clutches of the Fox and Dănilă the Cat.
Veronica Comes Back
1973
8.0Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer.
Aurel Vlaicu
1977
7.3A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru.
Totally Unprepared
1977
6.8A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.
Arms of Afrodite
1979
6.5A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city
The Poseidon Explosion
1973
6.8Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - the conversations of cinephile travelers on their way to the film studios in Buftea - account for about 40% of the total length of the film. We are grateful to the filmmakers for the reunions with great actors who have passed away or great living actors. We are very grateful to them for their kind and benevolent effort to entertain us in every way and in every way; the comedy way, the musical way, the music-hall way, all ways, because, if you look closely, an excellent comic moment comes from a detective movie.
Expresul de Buftea
1978
7.3The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess...
A Lost Letter
1977
1960s · 16 titles
7.5It is 1944, german troops are in retreat. These troops were using a communication station and a cypher. The mission is to acquire the cypher...
The Secret Code
1960
5.8Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
Seven Guys and a Gal
1967
A group of geologists are in a prospecting expedition. Their personalities are explored as well.
At the Gates of Earth
1965
6.6Five young high school graduates are preparing for college admissions in one of the largest and most important university centers, Cluj. Once they become students, the lives of the five change, and the results will be commensurate with the work of each.
Gaudeamus igitur
1965
6.8A subpoena on perception turns the life of a teacher upside down when he finds himself taxed for what he never even had: two buffalo. Because of the aberrant bureaucracy, he can't even get rid of the fictitious cuckolds...
The Teacher's Correspondence
1966
6.2Fanita, a young man desirous to earn money as a result of personals initiatives, will fail in all these businesses , is ultimately convinced to enter in the Agricultural Production Comradeship or Community from his village.
A Midsummer Day's Smile
1963
A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.
Underneath the Surface
1967
7.4Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena.
Chief of the Souls Sector
1967
6.8Three distinct cinematic stories that take place in Bucharest, made by three different directors, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the city's existence
Three Times Bucharest
1967
7.1A comedy love story that takes place at a ski resort during romanian communism time!
Love at Zero Degrees
1964
7.8A newly hired engineer is also an amateur boxing star. He also dreams of becoming an actor. He is pushed in different directions, he also wants to get married.
K.O.
1968
10.0Adapted from the sketch by Ion Luca Caragiale. A fine irony on pre-war politicism, which manages, through gastronomic means, to ridicule an entire political class.
Politica cu… delicatese
1964
A group of students from an architectural institute, instead of going to the mountains, accidentally end up in a vacation home by the sea. Here, after a series of amusing adventures, they successfully perform with their amateur variety orchestra.
Vacanta la mare
1963
5.9The humorous adventures of an all-male team of cyclists training for an upcoming important bike race.
The Cyclists Are Coming
1968
7.8Mihai is expelled from college and sentenced to prison for a DUI accident. After his term in prison, he is hired at a construction site to be "re-educated"
At the Age of Love
1963
8.0Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
The Soimaresti Clan
1965
