
Acting
Aurel Giurumia
Born 1931-03-14 · Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Acting credits
7.2Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.
The Cyanide and the Raindrop
1978
8.4A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.
Melodii, melodii
1978
8.2In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.
The Premiere
1976
5.6A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Circus Performers
1981
7.0In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
Operation 'The Bus'
1978
7.8In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
Circus Performers at the North Pole
1984
7.3An espionage agency is looking to kidnap Alina, the daughter of the Romanian engineer Muresan, to make her father divulge important secrets. On a trip, Muresan's wife and daughter know a young tourist who accompanies them up to a point where they are hosted by Matthew, a very agile little boy, hard-hitting the mountain.
Son of the Mountains
1981
7.7Resistance fighters blow up munitions depots on a Danube port in Romania, and attack an armament supply convoy for the German troupes.
The Dragonfly Bag
1981
NR'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the first part where the group of boys find themselves adrift at sea.
The Pirates of the Pacific
1975
7.9An important man, always in a hurry, but especially when behind the wheel, runs over a strange pedestrian: a young globe-trotting, absent-minded young man who is treading firmly, but in the wrong place, on the wide road. After hesitating for a moment, the man behind the wheel turns back to the scene and can't find his victim. Out of nowhere, however, the victim appears in the man's life, upsetting an entire family with dramatic and comic-sentimental entanglements.
Hurry Slowly
1981
6.8A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.
Ana and the Thief
1981
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
7.0A petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection.
Reach for the Sky
1990
5.2In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the casting repeatedly breaks and deadlines loom, he must overcome engineering hurdles and personal sacrifices to see the vessel launched with the home-forged propeller.
Hot Days
1976
8.4Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.
Repeated Wedding
1985
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
A group of students from an architectural institute, instead of going to the mountains, accidentally end up in a vacation home by the sea. Here, after a series of amusing adventures, they successfully perform with their amateur variety orchestra.
Vacanta la mare
1963
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
NRIn a small provincial town, members of the Illegalist Movement are feverishly preparing for Liberation Day. The Fre Freckle, a cute 14-year-old boy, becomes the hero of these events, which are being led from the shadows by his friend and comrade Andrei. With the help of his history teacher, his father and, more often than not, his dog Calu, the boy faces any challenge with ease and courage.
Pistruiatul 2: Ascunzișuri
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6.6Based 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
6.4After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.
The Trap
1974
7.8Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.
Hazelnut Chocolate
1979
7.8Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
Promisses
1985
6.7The favorite plot for communist propagandists: a new agronomist comes in the village and gets in conflict with the local cooperative president. Everything ends well. Sprinkled with jokes.
Sentimental Summer
1986