Nicolae Mărgineanu

Directing

Nicolae Mărgineanu

Born

1938-09-25 (88)

Place of birth

Cluj, Cluj, România

Known for

Directing

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Iertarea poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Iertarea

2026

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

Magic Circle poster
7.5

Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.

Magic Circle

1975

The Forest Woman poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Forest Woman

1987

The Forest Woman poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Forest Woman

1987

The Man in the Overcoat poster
8.0

Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?

The Man in the Overcoat

1979

Undeva în Est poster
6.2

In 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

Undeva în Est poster
6.2

In 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

Undeva în Est poster
6.2

In 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

Look Ahead with Anger poster
5.6

After 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

The Cardinal poster
8.7

In 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

No artwork available
6.5

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

A Clod of Clay poster
7.5

A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.

A Clod of Clay

1990

A Clod of Clay poster
7.5

A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.

A Clod of Clay

1990

Loss of Bearings poster
NR

The diary of feelings caused by the break-up of a couple.

Loss of Bearings

1968

White Gate poster
7.0

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

White Gate

2014

White Gate poster
7.0

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

White Gate

2014

Bless You, Prison poster
6.2

Based 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

Bless You, Prison poster
6.2

Based 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

Capul de zimbru poster
7.5

Film 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

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

Fii cu ochii pe fericire poster
6.3

A 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

No artwork available
NR

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

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

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

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

Soul's Redemption: A Pocket Guide poster
10.0

While 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

No artwork available
10.0

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

—

Father Arsenie Boca: A Man of God poster
NR

Arsenie 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

The Famous Paparazzo poster
5.9

A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.

The Famous Paparazzo

1999

Currency Exchange poster
5.8

How 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

No artwork available
6.0

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