Şerban Ionescu

Acting

Şerban Ionescu

Born 1950-09-23 · Corabia, Olt, Romania

Acting credits

The Impossible Love poster
7.4

Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by the engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".

The Impossible Love

1984

The Wood Cutters poster
9.0

Forestry workers isolated by winter on a mountaintop. Loves, longings, nostalgias and vital questions. From the first film, Cărmăzan reveals his inclination towards a certain magical surrealism that he later develops.

The Wood Cutters

1983

Mercenaries' Trap poster
7.4

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman

Mercenaries' Trap

1982

No artwork available
5.3

A peasant went to work in constructions for a few years in Bucharest. He's thinking of returning home, but only after overturning his father's unfair sentence.

Home

1985

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 Forest Woman poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Forest Woman

1987

Happy End poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Happy End

2006

Furtună în Pacific poster
7.3

Ship "Saturn" prepares to return home from the American west coast. The ship is damaged at a very bad time, when a severe storm comes their way, they loose propulsion. The currents are pulling them towards a rocky island and they must try the impossible to save themselves.

Furtună în Pacific

1985

This Above All poster
8.8

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government.

This Above All

1978

Bătălia din umbră poster
7.0

In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.

Bătălia din umbră

1986

Attack in the Library poster
7.2

Andrei Mladin, a young investigative reporter, is set up for two murders by a criminal that he brought to justice earlier.

Attack in the Library

1993

Marele Premiu poster
NR

A young karting enthusiast is helped by his friends to enter a competition, but a road accident forces him out of the race. With the support of his parents and girlfriend, he recovers from the emotional trauma and eventually wins the grand prize behind the wheel.

Marele Premiu

1985

Beyond America poster
7.5

Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in order just to take her back and provide the protection she needed. Struggling to preserve her humanity, she falls in love with a young platonic dreamer, a kind of rebel without cause, whom she initiate in literature and reinvents as a character capable to meet her own desires of freedom. BEYOND AMERICA is a love story and an action drama altogether, with archetypes of an aggressive, totalitarian society.

Beyond America

2008

Face to Face poster
8.0

A protest writer, the glory of dissidence, learns that her husband was a Securitate informer for 20 years. Press and TV make the story the headline of the day. In 24 hellish hours, the couple re-evaluate their lives to decide how and if they can go on.

Face to Face

1999

The Timișoara Syndrome poster
7.5

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.

The Timișoara Syndrome

2004

Humility poster
8.0

In a forgotten village with lazy people and corrupt leadership, Pacoste must suffer for a mistake made in his past. His only friend is a young boy who finds in him a father figure.

Humility

2011

No artwork available
3.7

Lionel suffers from severe memory loss as a result of an accident. Inspector Corona accuses him of the brutal murder of a law student with whom he had a relationship.

Meurtres par procuration

1995

Earth poster
NR

During their internship at an archaeological site, two students from the Faculty of History find ancient coins that support the nationalist thesis on the continuity of the Romanian people throughout the centuries in Romania. One of them is determined to present the discovery at an important international historical conference organized in Adamclisi, but his lazier colleagues look at him with envy.

Earth

1977

Red Rats poster
7.7

Stunt coordinator Stefan is forced out of the Institute of Fine Arts for voicing anti-regime views, is pursued and interrogated by the Securitate, and suffers the loss of his friend Stavros during the 1977 earthquake rescue. After illegally emigrating, he returns post-1989 to uncover shocking truths about the very officials who once investigated him.

Red Rats

1991

Love and Warm Water poster
7.3

Angela (Liliana Pană) and Dorina (Magda Catone), working at the Match Factory, live in the home and dream of marriage and spouses to give them a decent living. But the illusions are shattered when the men encountered prove their lack of character: Titi (the boy whom Angela is in love with, appears at a time with a kid and is raped), a vendor, is pimp, Emil, an engineer, is a And Radu, an emigrant in Australia, is undistinguished by his Collie dog.

Love and Warm Water

1992

Proud Heritage poster
7.3

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.

Proud Heritage

1989

15 poster
5.3

A love story that happens in the background Revolution in Timișoara.

15

2005

Maria poster
8.4

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

Maria

2003

Burebista poster
7.4

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Burebista

1980