Valentin Uritescu

Acting

Valentin Uritescu

Born — Died

1941-06-04 — 2022-06-17

Place of birth

Vinerea, Alba, România

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

1990s · 7 titles

Dănilă Prepeleac poster
8.0

It 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

The Oak poster
6.7

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.

The Oak

1992

No artwork available
10.0

Poland is invaded by Nazi Germany and entrusts the national treasure to Romania. In September 1939, the Romanian government thus took an enormous risk.

Marea sfidare

1990

The Earth's Most Beloved Son poster
7.1

The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.

The Earth's Most Beloved Son

1993

De-ași fi Peter Pan poster
7.0

A retelling of the J. M. Barrie story Peter Pan, in which three Victorian children learn about the boy, Peter, who must defend his homeland from pirates and find his shadow.

De-ași fi Peter Pan

1992

The Eleventh Commandment poster
7.5

Free adaptation of the book "The Pitesti phenomenon" by Paul Goma. The last days of World War II. All people resembling Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Goebbels, Bormann and other Nazi leaders are arrested and taken to a camp so that the real fascist criminals can be discovered and punished. Thus begins the long nightmare of these characters, who will suffer for unproven crimes. For a year they will live in total isolation from the rest of the world, living a hellish existence.

The Eleventh Commandment

1991

The Conjugal Bed poster
5.7

Romania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and poverty. Now, their problem is mostly poverty - and plenty of it. In this grim comedy (to call it a black comedy would be to paint too perky a picture of it), Vasile (Gheorghe Dinica)has a wife whom he's fond of, and a mistress, whom he's fonder of. He manages a nearly abandoned movie theater, and makes just about nothing doing it. When his wife announces she's pregnant, he nearly goes frantic trying to find money to get her an abortion. However, what truly sends him over the edge is when his mistress decides to become a prostitute because, after all, the money is good. These two situations send him straight to the loony bin, and when he gets out, he discovers that his wife has rented their apartment to pornographic filmmakers, and guess who's starring in them?

The Conjugal Bed

1993

1980s · 21 titles

The Last Assault poster
7.6

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.

The Last Assault

1985

The Moment of Truth poster
7.3

An epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia.

The Moment of Truth

1989

White Darkness poster
7.2

A woman in a village tries to break up her son and his girlfriend. He asks for help a local cult leader. He tells her to use some specially prepared wine.

White Darkness

1982

Those Who Pay with Their Lives poster
5.1

An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.

Those Who Pay with Their Lives

1989

Swell Guys poster
6.8

A farm team-leader, Tudor, is accused for having failed the harvesting. Unhappy with what he considers an unfair verdict, he leaves the farm and moves to another village, getting a job as an ordinary worker in another farm. At first, he is upset by the very severe leader of that team, Mihai, but soon he discovers that his hard style is necessary to keep the work in good order and face all the problems. He also finds a bunch of great friends (the "Swell Guys" / "...baieti grozavi" in the title) and learns in what had consisted his own past mistakes. —Mihnea Columbeanu

Swell Guys

1987

Angela Goes On poster
6.3

One woman taxi driver in Bucharest is hoping for a conventional relationship.

Angela Goes On

1982

Miss Aurica poster
6.8

This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind.

Miss Aurica

1985

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

Fourth Fence, by the Wharf poster
5.6

Mișu and Mitică are two best friends. Everything changes when Cornelia shows up.

Fourth Fence, by the Wharf

1988

Bear's Eye poster
7.5

After the death of his wife a lonely forester meets a witch, who puts a spell on him.

Bear's Eye

1983

Grant Extenuating Circumstances? poster
6.3

An investigation is launched following an accident at a chemical plant. During the investigation, Andrei, a young engineer at the plant, proves his moral qualities.

Grant Extenuating Circumstances?

1984

No artwork available
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

Jacob poster
7.1

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.

Jacob

1988

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

Why Does the Fox Have a Tail poster
7.4

A story about a young boy and his adventurous holidays out of town.

Why Does the Fox Have a Tail

1989

A Studio Searching for a Star poster
7.2

Marina, a girl from a stunt team, passively assists to everyone's rush to choose the protagonist without whom the filming cannot begin. After weeks of nothing happening, the director, reviewing the footage on the screen, is struck by the photogenic photo of a young girl in an extras scene, which no one can identify. Marina doesn't want to reveal the secret to those on the set because, more pragmatically, her goal is different: admission to cybernetics!

A Studio Searching for a Star

1988

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

Contest poster
7.0

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

Contest

1982

No artwork available
6.8

A computer programmer falls in love with an architect, which, after her parents died, is responsible for her 4 younger siblings. He conquers her by first befriending her brothers and sisters.

Duminică în familie

1988

No artwork available
7.5

A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.

An Item of News

1986

Lișcă poster
7.2

Lișcă is a woman who awaits the return of her husband from war, only he is long overdue. Many callers come, yet she holds on to the hope her husband will return.

Lișcă

1984

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