
Directing
Nicolae Mărgineanu
Born
1938-09-25 (88)
Place of birth
Cluj, Cluj, România
Known for
Directing
Credits
33 titles
Known for
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Iertarea
2026
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
7.5Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
Magic Circle
1975
8.2No synopsis available yet.
The Forest Woman
1987
8.0Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?
The Man in the Overcoat
1979
6.2In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him give up his wealth, refusing to be brought down to the level of those who have never worked. The concept of collectivization is summed up by an indignant villager who, forced to work the land he no longer owns, bombards the party activist who claims that the land is still his: "You cut off my p..., put it in my hand and said, 'take it, it's still yours'.
Undeva în Est
1990
Film credits
Behind the camera
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Iertarea
2026
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
7.5Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
Magic Circle
1975
8.2No synopsis available yet.
The Forest Woman
1987
8.2No synopsis available yet.
The Forest Woman
1987
8.0Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?
The Man in the Overcoat
1979
6.2In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him give up his wealth, refusing to be brought down to the level of those who have never worked. The concept of collectivization is summed up by an indignant villager who, forced to work the land he no longer owns, bombards the party activist who claims that the land is still his: "You cut off my p..., put it in my hand and said, 'take it, it's still yours'.
Undeva în Est
1990
6.2In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him give up his wealth, refusing to be brought down to the level of those who have never worked. The concept of collectivization is summed up by an indignant villager who, forced to work the land he no longer owns, bombards the party activist who claims that the land is still his: "You cut off my p..., put it in my hand and said, 'take it, it's still yours'.
Undeva în Est
1990
6.2In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him give up his wealth, refusing to be brought down to the level of those who have never worked. The concept of collectivization is summed up by an indignant villager who, forced to work the land he no longer owns, bombards the party activist who claims that the land is still his: "You cut off my p..., put it in my hand and said, 'take it, it's still yours'.
Undeva în Est
1990
5.6After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.
Look Ahead with Anger
1993
8.7In the fifties, the leaders of the Greek-Catholic church are arrested and sent to the Sighet prison.The soviet regime has banned any church except the orthodox. Tortured and dehumanized, the only choices are conversion or death. The bishop Iuliu Hossu stands up in front of the torturers and through courage and stature becomes an inspiration for the other priests.
The Cardinal
2019
Major Smith, a British intelligence officer, receives an assignment to transport to England a professor of the University of Bucharest, a geologist who has discovered a deposit of uranium ore in Romania. However, the professor suddenly disappears. To find him, the British devise a complex operation. In turn, German intelligence decides to use the results of the British. But there is a third interested party - Romanian patriots. They are relentlessly following the actions of the two intelligence agencies, trying to protect the professor and his discovery. With their help, the Romanian police commissioner manages to arrest the whole gang of spies.
The third deadly jump
1980
7.5A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.
A Clod of Clay
1990
7.5A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.
A Clod of Clay
1990
NRThe diary of feelings caused by the break-up of a couple.
Loss of Bearings
1968
7.0Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.
White Gate
2014
7.0Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.
White Gate
2014
6.2Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.
Bless You, Prison
2002
6.2Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.
Bless You, Prison
2002
7.5Film inspired by a short story of the same name by Vasile Voiculescu. During the Second World War a Romanian army unit, isolated in a strange landscape, is visited by a German general. The disappearance of a valuable postage stamp - the head of a zebu - dating back to the sec. The disappearance of a valuable 19th-century stamp head - a 19th-century stamp head - during this visit creates a highly tense situation.
Capul de zimbru
1996
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
6.3A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.
Fii cu ochii pe fericire
1999
George Manu, a brilliant Romanian physicist, is sentenced in 1948 by the communist courts to hard labour for life and imprisoned in Aiud prison. Here he becomes an inexhaustible source of knowledge for the other prisoners, whom he helps to survive the grim world of concentration camps by taking refuge in the world of the knowledge.
George Manu - The Rector from Zarca Aiudului
2013
6.5Two 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
6.5Two 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
6.8Deep 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
10.0While a gruff inspector mentors a new hire, he flips their usual routine when he investigates a monk with a link to a fatal incident from years ago.
Soul's Redemption: A Pocket Guide
2018
Depicts the stories of 8 torture victims from Pitesti prison, who tell the stages and tortures they were forced to go through, he moods they experienced, and give us their considerations about the purpose and effects of the action.
Demascarea
—
NRArsenie Boca (1910 - 1989) was a Romanian Orthodox monk, theologian and artist. He was persecuted by the Communists and named among the 100 greatest Romanians.
Father Arsenie Boca: A Man of God
2011
5.9A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.
The Famous Paparazzo
1999
5.8How far can one person go to try and reclaim what they have lost? In a country town, Emil (Cosmin Selesi) becomes unemployed when the factory where he worked closes. After his wife loses her job as well, the two decide to travel to Australia; drawbacks, however, start even before they board a plane.
Currency Exchange
2008
A history of Bucharest, as seen in the light of the totalitarian architecture, having as leading idea the reality that the Power always exposes its purposes through architecture. After five decades of communism, the reality on thee Dark Ages is still waiting to be revealed, and architecture is one of the most obvious embodiments of the ideology to whom it was builtÉ It is not a movie about faults or about guilty peoples, but about official edifices of thee communist Romania and their story.
Architecture And Power
1993

