Ion Anghel
2021Codine
Henri Colpi
Alexandru Virgil Platon, Răzvan Petrescu
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
De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?
Lucian Pintilie
Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihuț
Based 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?
The Redhead
Francisc Munteanu
Costel Băloiu, Sebastian Papaiani
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
The Redhead
Bunicul și doi delicvenți minori
Maria Callas Dinescu
Octavian Cotescu, Elisabeta Jar
A police officer is investigating the disappearance of a colleague's young boy. His key seems to be the "dark skinned" friend of the boy about whom nobody cares, including the police.
Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Acțiunea Autobuzul
Virgil Calotescu
Mircea Albulescu, Costel Constantin
In 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'
Alarmă în munți
Dinu Negreanu
Iurie Darie, Emanoil Petruţ
Самолёт без опознавательных знаков нарушил воздушную границу Румынии. Парашютистам, выбросившимся с самолёта в районе лесопильного завода, удалось скрыться. Их возглавляет матёрый волк — бывший капитан королевской армии, фашист-легионер Ставреску, бежавший из страны вместе с гитлеровскими войсками в 1944 году. Ему известны все окрестные ущелья и пещеры — в этих местах когда-то хозяйничал его отец, крупный помещик. Но Ставреску не знает, где расположены сторожевые заставы. Это должна выведать его бывшая служанка, красавица Кодица, которой увлечён молодой солдат Миху. Борьба, которую ведут с хитрым, коварным, сильным врагом отряды пограничных войск и местные жители, и составляет содержание фильма.
Alarm in the Mountains
