Acting
Nicolae Praida
Born 1933-09-20 · Samokov, Bulgaria
Acting credits
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
6.0Three sisters that had a tranquil life in a town suffer dramatic life changes at the end of WW2.
Surorile
1984
8.2This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
The Power and The Truth
1972
5.4In a small village in the Danube Delta, where traditions are confronted with new material purposes, a teenage girl is becoming a woman. This is the story of Ryna, a 16-year-old girl working as a motor mechanic in Sulina, who strives to find her identity next to a father who is firmly denying her femininity.
Ryna
2006
7.0The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
Porto-Franco
1961
6.3The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
The Storm
1960
7.0A successful boxer has a difficult time due to the fact that his family feels neglected.
The Winner
1981
7.1The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers.
The Season of Love
1987
7.8Stoica, 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
7.0A village celebrates being granted the title of city. During the festivity an old, sick, beat down man shows up. No one seems to recognise him but he claims to be a villager that everyone thought had died in the war 30 years earlier.
The Fury
1978
8.0"The Apples" (1955) is the graduation film of two of the most important directors of the following decades, Iulian Mihu and Manole Marcus, and shows a young couple mocked by a nobleman because they had stolen some apples from his estate.
The Apple Trees
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8.2In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind.
Postcards with Wildflowers
1975
7.3An 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
Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
I have an Idea
1981
6.5A notorious convict who'd been an undercover agent during the communist regime agrees to return to prison to kill an inconvenient witness against some influential figures. But an unexpected bond forms between the two, and he ends up questioning his mission.
Alone Versus Myself
2003
7.2An untalented writer’s attempts to craft a “lifelike” screenplay result in a run-of-the-mill policier.
Like in Films
1983
6.0A former fighter pilot is forced, due to an illness, to work on utility planes in the countryside.
Destination Mahmudia
1981
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
7.2A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
The Man We Need
1979
5.8Dying in the trenches during World War II, Stefan looks back at his own life and that of his father. Through his memories, the film presents a story that embraces two generations and various eras. It is a film about the tragedy of lives dragged into conflicts against their will, of lives violently ruined or ended – a story about the devastating consequences of war. Interweaving past and present, the flashback narrative depicts the war as a perpetual situation where the “little people” always turn out to be on the losing side.
Life Doesn't Spare
1959
7.3After surviving a shipwreck in the Caribbean, a captain returns home burdened by guilt and haunted by the past. Given command a ship bound for Singapore, he is treated with suspicion and hostility by his new crew.
A Crew for Singapore
1981
5.6Romania 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
7.5Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.
Close to the Sun
1961
8.0Alexandra and The Inferno is a 1975 Romanian film, about a young soldier during World War 2, written and directed by Iulian Mihu. The main roles were played by actors Violeta Andrei, Romeo Partenie and Nicolae Radu. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name written by Laurențiu Fulga. In a complex social context, the film explores the protagonist's dilemmas and inner struggles, shedding light on social and personal issues that test her courage and strength to resist.
Alexandra And The Inferno
1975