Margareta Pogonat

Visul unei nopți de iarnă

Dan Necșulea

Florin Piersic, Rodica Mandache

A romantic comedy of the 80s, a remake of a 1946 well-known movie with the same title. He - known writer, mature, tall, handsome, courted women meets her - young, sprightly, naive, dreamy love for him after she read all his books.

The Actor and the Savages

Manole Marcus

Toma Caragiu, Mircea Albulescu

Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world.

Două lozuri

Aurel Miheleș, Gheorghe Naghi

Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic, Dorina Done

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.

Amintiri din copilărie

Elisabeta Bostan

Ștefan Ciubotărașu, Ion Bocancea

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

Bless You, Prison

Nicolae Mărgineanu

Maria Ploae, Dorina Lazăr

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.

Sper să ne mai vedem

Dumitru Dinulescu

Valentin Mihail, Ileana Harșa-Negru

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.

Meanders

Mircea Săucan

Ernest Maftei, Margareta Pogonat

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.

The Stone Cross

Andrei Blaier

Gheorghe Dinică, Florina Cercel

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.

Gloria nu cîntă

Alexandru Bocăneț

Jean Constantin, Octavian Cotescu

Dragostea începe vineri

Virgil Calotescu

Adina Popescu, Virgil Ogășanu

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.

E atît de aproape fericirea

Andrei Cătălin

Diana Lupescu, Horațiu Mălăele

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

Regăsire

Ștefan Roman

Violeta Andrei, Emil Hossu

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.

Convoiul

Mircea Moldovan

Emil Hossu, Mircea Cosma

Then the Legend was Born

Andrei Blaier

Ilarion Ciobanu, Margareta Pogonat

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

Tinerețe fără bătrânețe

Nicolae Codrescu, Elisabeta Bostan

Mircea Breazu, Anna Széles

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.

Margo

Ioan Cărmăzan

Cristina Cioran, Marius Florea Vizante

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