Emilia Dobrin

Acting

Emilia Dobrin

Born 1948-08-01 · Vălenii de Munte, România

Acting credits

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6.3

This film is about a functional alcoholic, who works as a lathe operator in a factory and is mentoring a young man.

Man and Shadow

1981

The Japanese Dog poster
6.9

After a devastating flood destroys their home, Costache and Maria struggle to rebuild their lives. As family tensions resurface with the return of their son with his Japanese wife and child, Costache faces the challenge of reconnecting across generations.

The Japanese Dog

2013

Red Apples poster
6.7

In Alexandru Tatos’s debut film, a young urologist is assigned to a town hospital with no urology ward and keeps bumping up against his superiors because of both ethical and medical problems.

Red Apples

1976

Fleeting Loves poster
6.5

A Romanian architect who married abroad reunites with his birthplace, with those he met, with the women he loved, with the echoes of what happened once, with the great transformations that are taking place in the Capitol, on construction sites and in Romanian villages. Condemned by an incurable disease, but also overwhelmed by these realities and by the irrepressible longing for his homeland, the hero decides to return home for good.

Fleeting Loves

1974

Astray poster
7.2

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.

Astray

1978

The New Year That Never Came poster
7.5

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

The New Year That Never Came

2024

Ciprian Porumbescu poster
6.2

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

Ciprian Porumbescu

1973

The Anniversary poster
6.2

At Radu Maligan's 94th anniversary the family members and the former colleagues of the old man come to his birthday party. Everything gets complicated when half of the guests try to convince Radu to confess his sins to a priest, while the others think that no one should be forced to do something beyond their will.

The Anniversary

2017

A Tense August poster
NR

The events of august 1944 when King Michael I of Romania overthrew the fascist regime

A Tense August

1974

A Crew for Singapore poster
7.3

After 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

The Great Vacation poster
4.7

Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.

The Great Vacation

1988

The Extras poster
8.2

After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"

The Extras

1987

Maia – Portrait with Hands poster
6.6

The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this question of heritage is connected to the name she shares with her grandmother, who was born into a traditional Aromanian life, and is fluent only in an Aromanian language. The older Alexandra's father suffered a violent death in an uprising for his people's rights, which forced the family out of Greece and into a politically treacherous Balkan landscape deep in the throes of nationalist upheavals, until finally, they found a home in Romania.

Maia – Portrait with Hands

2024

The Heat poster
8.0

Sergiu, Laura and Smache are three high school graduates who make plans for the future. An idyll is born between Sergiu and Laura, but due to the opposition of the girl's parents and the fact that the young man is recruited, she will marry someone else. After a few years, the paths of the three meet again. Sergiu is on the verge of graduating from college and Laura, now divorced, is a piano teacher.

The Heat

1969

Sentimental Education poster
NR

Portrait of a Romanian bourgeois family.

Sentimental Education

2023

The Secret of the Secret Weapon poster
6.8

In 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

Poor Ioanide poster
7.0

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has "on file" the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.

Poor Ioanide

1980

On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube poster
6.6

The search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman.

On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube

1983

No artwork available
NR

Laur asks the owners’ association in the building he lives in to fix the elevator for his pregnant girlfriend. Throughout the meeting, we witness an absurd world, which imposes its own rules, outside of all that is humane and logical.

When It Snows

2017

Sick Animals poster
6.5

The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclusions of which are eagerly awaited. After several attempts, a sergeant manages to catch the killer.

Sick Animals

1970

A Clod of Clay poster
7.5

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

A Clod of Clay

1990

Dangerous Turn poster
7.5

A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead man found found on the side of the road.

Dangerous Turn

1983

Gathering Clouds poster
6.5

Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts.

Gathering Clouds

1986

Sequences... poster
7.0

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Sequences...

1982