Ilinca Manolache

Acting

Ilinca Manolache

Born 1985-08-01 · Bucharest, Romania

Ilinca Manolache (born 1 August 1985) is a Romanian actress. Manolache is a frequent collaborator of director Radu Jude. She first appeared in his 2018 feature I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, followed in 2021 by Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and the short film Caricaturana. In 2021, Manolache created the character of Bobiță, a misogynist with a penchant for foul language and a distinctive appearance achieved using a Snapchat filter. While her Instagram videos as Bobiță were initially poorly received among her theater world contemporaries, the character was incorporated into her next collaboration with Jude, the 2023 film Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.

Acting credits

Bunraku poster
5.8

In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.

Bunraku

2010

Kontinental '25 poster
6.5

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.

Kontinental '25

2025

The Diary of a Chambermaid poster
NR

Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.

The Diary of a Chambermaid

2026

What Happens at Night poster
NR

An American couple travels to a remote, snowbound European town to adopt a child in hopes of saving their marriage. Stranded in an eerie hotel, they encounter a cast of unsettling figures as reality begins to fracture around them.

What Happens at Night

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World poster
6.9

On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023

Dracula poster
6.2

In modern-day Transylvania, vampire hunts and labor strikes collide with sci-fi twists, romance, and AI-crafted tales, as multiple storylines blend folklore, classic horror, and contemporary elements into a fresh take on Dracula's legend.

Dracula

2025

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians poster
6.7

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA. Represents Radu Jude's feelings of "creative obligation" to Romania and channels Roberto Rossellini's 1948 film 'L'amore' while exploring sociopolitical tensions in Europe.

Love Diptych

I Don't Know poster
5.1

Invited by the goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden (Germany), Radu Jude created a self-portrait. A confinement diary made of his thoughts, his relationship to cinema, his inspirations or the streets, objects and people that surround him.

I Don't Know

2021

The Future Is in Your Hands, But Why Not Lend It to the Specialists? poster
NR

Influenced by the media and current beauty standards, Beatrice undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries, under the watchful eye of her husband.

The Future Is in Your Hands, But Why Not Lend It to the Specialists?

2026

Cinema Almanac: Six Short Films by Radu Jude poster
NR

A compilation of short films by director Radu Jude: "The Marshal’s Two Executions" (2018), "Punish and Discipline" (2019), "Semiotic Plastic" (2021), "Caricaturana" (2021), "The Potemkinists" (2022), and "Memories from The Eastern Front" (2022).

Cinema Almanac: Six Short Films by Radu Jude

2022

Bucharest Non-Stop poster
6.9

A night in the life of a 24-hour ‘Non-Stop’ store located in a neighborhood of apartment buildings. Four people lead different stories connected by a key character, Achim, the owner of the Non-Stop.

Bucharest Non-Stop

2015

Jackpot poster
NR

Nelu works at a pawn shop, and Ilinca is employed at a travel agency in the same busy intersection. Their daily routine includes having a quick lunch together while making various life plans.

Jackpot

2024

Alișveriș poster
6.0

Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal things in order to survive. Today she has an important deadline and she might end up selling a piece of her body in order to keep a roof over her head.

Alișveriș

2025

No artwork available
NR

At the end of summer, Laura, aged 60, goes on vacation with an old friend to a village on the Bulgarian coast. The appearance of a stranger disturbs what was supposed to be a peaceful vacation.

Morski Briz

2018

No artwork available
NR

Upcoming project set for 2027 with Ilinca Manolache and Raluca Aprodu.

Untitled Radu Muntean Project

Caricaturana poster
5.3

Inspired by an idea from Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, director Radu Jude silently flips through satirical lithographs by 19th-century French artist Honoré-Victorin Daumier. Soon, the caricatures’ original texts are read out. Finally, the caricatures are used as commentary for actual news.

Caricaturana

2021

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn poster
6.4

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

2021