Ovidiu Schumacher

Acting

Ovidiu Schumacher

Born

1942-07-26 (84)

Place of birth

Moreni, Dâmbovița, România

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

The Son of the Stars poster
8.0

In 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

Comoara poster
5.4

A 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

The Season of Love poster
7.1

The 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

The Bone Srewn Road poster
7.0

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

The Bone Srewn Road

1980

No artwork available
5.4

Some party representatives want to make a new football team.

I have an Idea

1981

All Scores are Settled poster
7.1

Margelatu discovers and annihilates a plot by the Austrians by infiltrating the Fratia organization with a fake envoy of the French revolutionary Alphonse de Lamartine

All Scores are Settled

1987

A Smile Of The Sun poster
6.5

Several 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

No artwork available
6.5

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

Sand Cliffs poster
6.6

Hristea, 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

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

Cartea cu guturai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cartea cu guturai

1987

A Passage to the Moon poster
NR

Inspired from a short story by Marin Sorescu.

A Passage to the Moon

1988

Spring of the Goslings poster
7.0

Fifteen years later, Viișoara has not changed much: the shepherd remains the same lonely character, Varvara the same energetic woman caught in complicated administrative tasks, Toderaș with his palinca hidden in the barn and his fading authority, elders wise and active, young people enthusiastic—but not all of them.

Spring of the Goslings

1987

1970s · 17 titles

Operation 'The Monster' poster
8.3

A 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

The Hope poster
NR

The 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

The Man We Need poster
7.2

A 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

Felix and Otilia poster
6.2

Young 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

We Do Not Film Just for Fun poster
7.0

This 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

Too Little for Such a Big War poster
8.0

Inspired by true events, an orphaned boy raised by the regiment goes to the front in search of his best friend and faces terrifying experiences.

Too Little for Such a Big War

1970

Beyond the Sands poster
6.8

Bad 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

Totally Unprepared poster
7.3

A 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.

Totally Unprepared

1977

The Green Grass of Home poster
6.6

After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.

The Green Grass of Home

1977

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

The Mace with Three Seals poster
6.9

At 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

January Dream poster
6.0

Young 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

Gloria nu cîntă poster
6.5

The "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

A Summer Tale poster
8.0

The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.

A Summer Tale

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

Ora zero poster
7.2

In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI.

Ora zero

1979

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

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