Eliza Petrăchescu

Acting

Eliza Petrăchescu

Born — Died

1911-06-14 — 1977-03-04

Place of birth

Vaslui, Romania

Known for

Acting

Credits

14 titles

Eliza Petrăchescu (1911–1977) was a Romanian stage and film actress, renowned especially for her powerful presence in tragic roles. She graduated from the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Iași, where she was the favorite student of the great actress Agatha Bârsescu. Between 1929 and 1941, Petrăchescu performed in over 40 roles at the “Vasile Alecsandri” National Theatre in Iași, establishing herself as one of the most promising actresses of her generation. In 1941, she was recommended by director Ion Sava to novelist and theatre director Liviu Rebreanu at the National Theatre “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest. After transferring to the capital, she rose to prominence as a tragedienne, noted for…

Known for

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

Bird of the Storm poster
7.8

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.

Bird of the Storm

1957

The Last Night of Childhood poster
6.3

Teenager Lucian is at the life crossroads. Just graduated high school, college and first love awaits.

The Last Night of Childhood

1969

Postcards with Wildflowers poster
8.3

In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind.

Postcards with Wildflowers

1975

Codine poster
7.0

An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

Codine

1963

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death poster
7.1

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

1972

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

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

Postcards with Wildflowers poster
8.3

In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind.

Postcards with Wildflowers

1975

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death poster
7.1

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

1972

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

Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 poster
7.0

In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475

1975

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

Lust for Gold poster
7.3

The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.

Lust for Gold

1974

1960s · 5 titles

The Last Night of Childhood poster
6.3

Teenager Lucian is at the life crossroads. Just graduated high school, college and first love awaits.

The Last Night of Childhood

1969

Codine poster
7.0

An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

Codine

1963

The Thirst poster
6.5

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

The Thirst

1960

Memories of My Childhood poster
7.3

Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.

Memories of My Childhood

1964

Sentimental Story poster
6.5

Georgie, a young talented and respected doctor, leaves his job at a hospital in the capital and goes to work in a remote fishing village. Georgie has a hard time in the new place, where the fishermen prefer the witch doctor to the doctor. Boredom and unsettled life irritate his wife Irina, and she returns to the city. After some time, when Georgie managed to defeat the distrust of the fishermen, win their respect and love, he persuaded Irina to return. During a noisy and merry celebration, Irina carelessly climbed a precipitous bank and fell to her death.

Sentimental Story

1962