
Acting
Ovidiu Schumacher
Born 1942-07-26 · Moreni, Dâmbovița, România
Acting credits
8.0In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.
The Son of the Stars
1988
6.5Several students spend their last days of high school in a cheerful and musical atmosphere. Petrica and 'Sunny Smile', who has become a fairy tale princess in the meantime, find their way back to each other, from the real world to the dream one and the other way around, in order to meet their love halfway between the two realms.
A Smile Of The Sun
1987
7.2Recreating 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
8.3A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.
Operation 'The Monster'
1976
5.4A local Romanian chieftain in 16th century Transylvania discovers a great treasure of Decebalus. He decides to send it for safekeeping in Moldavia, but he has to evade the Transylvanian prince and the king of Hungary, who get wind of it and want it for themselves.
Comoara
1983
NRThe film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers' rights and organizer of the trade union movement in Romania.
The Hope
1979
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
NRThe presentation of the team of Romanian socialist activists Ștefan Gheorghiu, I.C. Frimu, M.G. Bujor, and Gheorghe Cristescu, joined by the journalist and publicist N.D. Cocea.
Labirintul
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Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
I have an Idea
1981
4.8A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.
The Beheaded Rooster
2007
5.8Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
That Trip We Took with Dad
2016
6.2Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules. Love, inheritance games, decaying mansions, and fragile hearts collide in this elegant adaptation of George Călinescu’s novel Enigma Otiliei.
Felix and Otilia
1972
6.0Young Moldovan nobles try to overthrow King Mihail Sturdza. They plot an assassination and spread flyers. On this backdrop, there is a romance story between Franz Liszt, in tournament, and one of the noblemen's daughter, who is close to the plotters.
January Dream
1979
7.3A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru.
Tufă de Veneția
1977
The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal life.
Un petic de cer
1984
6.6Hristea, a surgeon, spends his holidays at the seaside. While on the beach his belongings are stolen. The surgeon tells the policeman that the thief is a young man he had seen nearby. Although the accused doesn't admit to the wrongdoing, Hristea insists he should be punished. His obstinance will affect his marriage with his beautiful wife.
Sand Cliffs
1983
7.0This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
We Do Not Film Just for Fun
1975
6.6In 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
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
6.5The "Sing the country's cities" contest organized on TV is sweeping the province. Facing her baccalaureate and enamored... by cybernetics, Gloria is pushed to take part in the contest. But Gloria doesn't sing.
Gloria nu cîntă
1977
6.8Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
Beyond the Sands
1974
7.0Maria 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
7.2At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.
The Mace with Three Seals
1977
7.0Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.
The Bone Srewn Road
1980