Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila

Acting

Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila

Born — Died

1925-02-03 — 1996-09-19

Place of birth

Braila, Romania

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Dănilă Prepeleac poster
8.0

It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.

Dănilă Prepeleac

1996

The Duel poster
7.5

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief.

The Duel

1981

In the Dust of the Stars poster
4.7

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on this strange land.

In the Dust of the Stars

1976

No artwork available
6.0

A 12-year-old boy recalls his friendship with Matei, a man who profoundly influenced his childhood and helped him build a closer relationship with his father.

He was my friend

1963

Herodot's Mystery poster
7.5

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman settlement Lisidava. They are trying to locate it.

Herodot's Mystery

1976

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire poster
8.0

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

1979

Film credits

1980s · 7 titles

The Duel poster
7.5

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief.

The Duel

1981

Hurry Slowly poster
7.9

An 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

Bucharest Identity Card poster
7.7

A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...

Bucharest Identity Card

1982

Romantic Destinies poster
7.0

On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.

Romantic Destinies

1981

The Secret of Bacchus poster
7.8

Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.

The Secret of Bacchus

1984

Son of the Mountains poster
7.3

An 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

The Migrant Birds Are Coming poster
7.0

In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...

The Migrant Birds Are Coming

1984

1970s · 23 titles

In the Dust of the Stars poster
4.7

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on this strange land.

In the Dust of the Stars

1976

Herodot's Mystery poster
7.5

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman settlement Lisidava. They are trying to locate it.

Herodot's Mystery

1976

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire poster
8.0

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

1979

No artwork available
5.4

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people.

The Siege

1971

The Hussy poster
7.5

An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.

The Hussy

1978

Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family poster
6.8

The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.

Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family

1972

Păcală poster
7.1

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.

Păcală

1974

No artwork available
7.5

Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.

The Brothers

1971

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

Alarm in the Delta poster
6.3

During the 1970s a foreign smuggler is taking hostages and threatening to sabotage a river pumping station if he is not aided in his attempt to smuggle ancient artifacts out of Romania.Two young local boys foil his plans.

Alarm in the Delta

1976

Accident poster
7.0

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.

Accident

1977

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

Two Men for One Death poster
7.8

The story of a love triangle, in which a romanian and a hungarian love the same woman. Happening during WWII, the two hate each other. The movie was banned shortly after the release.

Two Men for One Death

1970

A Police Inspector Calls poster
7.7

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...

A Police Inspector Calls

1974

September poster
7.2

After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best one would be his father in Bucharest. To get there, he steals a motorcycle. In Bucharest he meets store clerk Anișoara, and he invites her to a seaside escapade. Their one day of love and future optimism is ended abruptly by a tragic motorcycle accident.

September

1978

With Clean Hands poster
7.4

A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.

With Clean Hands

1972

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

Alone Amongst Friends poster
5.0

A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.

Alone Amongst Friends

1979

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

The Prodigal Father poster
7.4

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

The Prodigal Father

1974

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

The Youth Elixir poster
6.2

An old geriatrics professor accidentally discovers after a high-school reunion a potion that can rejuvenate anybody and uses it on him and his friends. They all go their new youthful ways but, for most of them, things don't go according to plan.

The Youth Elixir

1975

Hazelnut Chocolate poster
7.8

Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.

Hazelnut Chocolate

1979

1960s · 13 titles

No artwork available
6.0

A 12-year-old boy recalls his friendship with Matei, a man who profoundly influenced his childhood and helped him build a closer relationship with his father.

He was my friend

1963

Porto-Franco poster
7.0

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.

Porto-Franco

1961

The White Room poster
8.0

A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the consequences of an accident and the implications that medicine catalogs in the name of science.

The White Room

1965

Comoara din Vadul Vechi poster
6.8

In a poverty stricken village in 1947 Moldavia, the obsession for getting rich of Prisac turns the community against him. Based on "La Răzeși" (Yeomans) novel by Valeriu Emil Galan.

Comoara din Vadul Vechi

1965

Darclée poster
6.2

Darclee is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want.

Darclée

1960

Titanic Waltz poster
8.0

Based on a comedy play by Romanian playwright Tudor Mușatescu and first performed in 1932, Titanic Waltz satirises political ambition, familial coercion, and the absurdities of electoral politics through the travails of an incorruptible bureaucrat hounded by his relatives to run for office

Titanic Waltz

1965

The Major and Death poster
7.6

A police major is investigating a gangster.

The Major and Death

1967

The Uprising poster
7.3

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.

The Uprising

1966

Snowfall Season poster
5.7

Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village.

Snowfall Season

1966

The Teacher's Correspondence poster
6.8

A subpoena on perception turns the life of a teacher upside down when he finds himself taxed for what he never even had: two buffalo. Because of the aberrant bureaucracy, he can't even get rid of the fictitious cuckolds...

The Teacher's Correspondence

1966

Who Is Going to Open the Door? poster
7.7

Ovidiu, a 13-year-old boy, is released from a correctional school and, on his way home, recalls the series of events that inexorably led to his being sent to that correctional institution.

Who Is Going to Open the Door?

1967

The Man Next to You poster
7.0

A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she sacrifices her career to follow him to a big project away.

The Man Next to You

1962

Politica cu… delicatese poster
10.0

Adapted from the sketch by Ion Luca Caragiale. A fine irony on pre-war politicism, which manages, through gastronomic means, to ridicule an entire political class.

Politica cu… delicatese

1964