Margareta Pogonat

Acting

Margareta Pogonat

Born 1933-03-06 · Iasi, Romania

Acting credits

The Convoy poster
6.1

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced transfer to another penitentiary.

The Convoy

1981

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

Meanders poster
6.5

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination, is very creative and daring, the latter is looking only for personal comfort and material satisfaction. They contend for the same woman – but even if she loves Petru, she marries Constantin for his material condition. Though he finds in Constantin an adversary who does not hesitate to remove him, Petru will surpass him professionally.

Meanders

1966

The Moment poster
5.4

This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed.

The Moment

1979

Pope Joan poster
6.1

Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.

Pope Joan

1972

Kingdom in the Clouds poster
6.2

A young man's quest for a kingdom promising eternal youth and immortality. To reach his goal he must fulfill the three wishes of the Emperor's daughter, retrieve three golden objects, answer three riddles set by the Lord of Time, and overcome an evil witch and escape the Kingdom of Lies ruled by an evil Emperor and the young man's nemesis, the Prince of Lies. In return for good deeds along the way, he is given a magical horn and feather to aid him in his quest and is served by a flying horse, All this before he can finally enter the Kingdom of Youth without Old Age and Life without Death and marry the Emperor's daughter.

Kingdom in the Clouds

1968

Two Lottery Tickets poster
8.1

1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella “Două loturi” (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directing belongs to Aurel Miheleş and Gheorghe Naghi, at that time both recently graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. This is the second feature film in colour from Romania. Despite the great public success, the film was often criticized by reviewers, mostly for its unhandy directing from the two debutants. Miheleş and Naghi would however continue their collaboration and release another two Caragiale adaptations, of which “Telegrame” (Telegrams, 1959) was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 edition of the Cannes festival.

Two Lottery Tickets

1959

The Dowry poster
8.0

Young engineer Doru is called to the Prosecutor's Office and questioned on his wife's unlawful ways of making money. Soon he'll learn about her true character and he'll regret having broken up with Livia, a woman who truly loved him.

The Dowry

1973

Reunited poster
6.3

A happily married teacher finds out that a child of hers she believed dead for 10 tears is alive. On the trail of her first lover, she reconnects with her lost daughter.

Reunited

1977

Happiness Is So Close poster
6.8

Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.

Happiness Is So Close

1977

Then the Legend was Born poster
6.3

Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle.

Then the Legend was Born

1969

Bless You, Prison poster
6.2

Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.

Bless You, Prison

2002

Three Secret Letters poster
6.2

A director of a shipyard abusively fires a foreman who has opposing ideas.

Three Secret Letters

1974

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

Love Begins on Friday poster
6.3

A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory.

Love Begins on Friday

1972

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

Memories of My Childhood poster
7.2

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

Memories of My Childhood

1964

Through Dusky Ways poster
8.5

When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but will she be able to seize this new oportunity for happiness?

Through Dusky Ways

1972

I Hope to See You Again poster
5.3

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an old mill.

I Hope to See You Again

1985

The Stone Cross poster
7.4

Andrei Blaier's film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of Bucharest before the Communist period, doomed to destruction under the new rules of proletarian morals that the Communists were trying to impose. The idea could be the start of a great film, with the prostitution being seen not so much from its destructive and exploitation perspective, but rather as a form of freedom in a time when the whole society was falling under the rule of propaganda, hypocrisy, and repression. In a world due to fall under tyranny for the coming decades prostitution becomes a metaphor of the old more free way of life.

The Stone Cross

1994

Lumina de iulie poster
10.0

even if you say you don't remember that summer light, it has been in your brain for a long time and you would recognize it immediately....in this communist-collectivist propaganda film of an artificially grotesque beauty to the point of absurdity....full-on lies and shots arranged idyllically, this is how people's perception of reality can be manipulated

Lumina de iulie

1963

The Actor and the Savages poster
7.9

At Bucharest’s famous revue theater “Vox,” director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite growing threats from the Iron Guard. As pressure and violence escalate, he and his collaborators face persecution, turning their artistic resistance into an act of courage and sacrifice.

The Actor and the Savages

1975

Margo poster
5.9

Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal.

Margo

2006

Personal Issues poster
7.2

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

Personal Issues

1981