Petre Gheorghiu

Acting

Petre Gheorghiu

Born — Died

1929-06-18 — 2000-08-06

Place of birth

Iaşi, România

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

The Avalanche poster
7.0

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

The Avalanche

1959

Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? poster
6.6

Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.

Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?

1981

Crumbled Citadel poster
6.3

This movie is a screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Horia Lovinescu. It follows a "bourgeois" family as it copes with the emerging communist regime. Different members of the family take different paths.

Crumbled Citadel

1957

Horea poster
7.6

In 18th-century Transylvania, peasants rise against oppressive nobles under the leadership of Horea, Cloșca, and Crișan. Hoping for justice, Horea seeks support from Emperor Joseph II, but as tensions grow, the rebellion turns into a harsh struggle for freedom and survival.

Horea

1984

The Extinct Volcano poster
7.0

A young geologist who believes strongly in the existence of a huge copper deposit. He will fight to prove this, while his mentor suffers a serious accident.

The Extinct Volcano

1987

Tudor poster
7.5

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians.

Tudor

1963

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? poster
6.6

Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.

Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?

1981

Horea poster
7.6

In 18th-century Transylvania, peasants rise against oppressive nobles under the leadership of Horea, Cloșca, and Crișan. Hoping for justice, Horea seeks support from Emperor Joseph II, but as tensions grow, the rebellion turns into a harsh struggle for freedom and survival.

Horea

1984

The Extinct Volcano poster
7.0

A young geologist who believes strongly in the existence of a huge copper deposit. He will fight to prove this, while his mentor suffers a serious accident.

The Extinct Volcano

1987

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love poster
8.5

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

1980

Starting Over poster
6.8

Traumatized by the loss of his wife, Vasile, an engineer, joins a new work collective in the provinces, at the ARO factory. Saddened by his loneliness, Cristina overcomes his resistance by becoming close to his little boy.

Starting Over

1987

No artwork available
5.4

Some party representatives want to make a new football team.

I have an Idea

1981

Melodii la Costinesti poster
8.3

The film describes the journeys through which the members of a light music band pass in their attempt to be selected for the Costinesti Labor Festival.

Melodii la Costinesti

1983

Waiting for a Train poster
6.2

After Romania changed alliances in August 23rd, 1944, a group of soldiers have the mission to stop a military train.

Waiting for a Train

1982

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

Mountains in Flames poster
6.8

1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.

Mountains in Flames

1980

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

Steaua fără nume poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Steaua fără nume

1983

Scopul și mijloacele poster
6.0

MIhai, a young high school graduate, discovers serios problems in the factory where he just got hired, and gets in conflict with his step father, which is the director.

Scopul și mijloacele

1983

1970s · 13 titles

The Great Solitary poster
6.5

Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.

The Great Solitary

1977

The Stone Wedding poster
7.2

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

The Stone Wedding

1973

Three Days and Three Nights poster
7.2

In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.

Three Days and Three Nights

1976

Happiness Is So Close poster
6.8

Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.

Happiness Is So Close

1977

Beyond the Bridge poster
6.2

Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.

Beyond the Bridge

1975

Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family poster
6.8

The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.

Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family

1972

The City Seen from Above poster
7.0

Maria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record.

The City Seen from Above

1975

Taste and Color of Happiness poster
7.5

A nonconformist engineer challenges some stereotypical negative communist characters.

Taste and Color of Happiness

1978

The Last Night of Loneliness poster
7.2

The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village.

The Last Night of Loneliness

1976

Anything for Soccer poster
6.6

In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing.

Anything for Soccer

1978

The Redhead poster
7.1

During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.

The Redhead

1976

A Lost Letter poster
7.3

The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess...

A Lost Letter

1977

Pintea poster
7.7

The movie is set in 18th century Maramureș region of Romania. The Romanian officer Grigore Pintea return to his village and finds out that his parents were killed, and other villagers were tortured because they protested against the unfair treatment of Bartolok Graff. He deserts the Austrian army and he becomes an outlaw. He is joined by many peasants and so his band manages to occupy 2 fortresses.

Pintea

1976