Ștefan Ciubotărașu

The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.

After graduating from high school and failing the university entrance exam, young Vive leaves his parents’ home in order to find his own way in life and assert his independence.

The story of the rescue of workers trapped in a snow avalanche in a remote mountain cabin.

A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.

The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.

Adam, a young and poor fisherman, falls in love with Uliana, but the girl's parents want her to marry Simion. To get rid of him, Simion blames Adam of the drowning of his fellow fishermen he was with out in a storm.

Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher wages and an eight-hour workday. They opposed the government's attempts to shift the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the workers' shoulders. The government, concerned about the scale of the strike and the workers' determination not to give in to their demands, ordered troops to shoot at unarmed people. On August 7, the strike was brutally suppressed. Many workers were killed. But these events have forever gone down in the history of the Romanian labor movement as an example of solidarity, heroism and invincibility of the people.

Ciulei’s second feature recalls the best of Fritz Lang and Michael Curtiz in its WWII-era espionage tale, set on a barge transporting Nazi munitions up the Danube. Ciulei himself givers a superb performance as Mihai, the barge captain forced to navigate the heavily mined waters along with his new bride, Ana (Irina Petrescu). As the journey wears on, Mihai becomes increasingly suspicious of one of his crew, ex-convict Toma (Lazar Vrabie), and his intentions towards Ana. But Toma has a far graver—and potentially deadly—secret to conceal.

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.

The 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.

Based on the story of the same name by Marin Preda. The movie tells about the struggle of poor peasants against the rural rich for the creation of collective farming.

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

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Geared more for the home crowd with a good knowledge of their own history, this Romanian political comedy takes place at the turn of the 20th century, when two opposing factions are going at each other tooth and nail to win an election. One candidate is a staunch if not deluded conservative and the other is a radical liberal. Anticipating modern election campaigns by a good half a century, the two candidates decide that the best way to win is to sling as much mud as possible. Lacking the Internet and fifteen-second TV spots, they do the best they can -- they send each other virulent telegrams denouncing each other's personal failings.

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

The film centers on the story of two young specialists Andrei and Liviu, their different attitudes to work, to their authority and to friendship.

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.

Based on the novel "The Artist" by Francisca Munteanu. Romania in the 30s. A young talented artist Mihai Strihan, a student at the Academy of Painting, sees how fascism is poisoning the social life of the country. But Mihai does not want to get involved in politics and decides to engage only in painting. However, under the influence of friends fighting for the freedom of their homeland, Mihai realizes that he was wrong and becomes involved in a fierce political struggle against fascism.

A 12-year-old boy recalls his friendship with Matei, a man who profoundly influenced his childhood and helped him build a closer relationship with his father.

Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle.

Mihai is expelled from college and sentenced to prison for a DUI accident. After his term in prison, he is hired at a construction site to be "re-educated"

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Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.

An obliging and resourceful peasant made a woodworking machine out of scrap metal bought for two ducks, unaware of the dangers that would await him at every turn. Having become an unwitting swindler, he had to go with the proper documents through many instances, suffering from unscrupulous officials-bureaucrats...