Movies: Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic

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 dir...

Geared more for the home crowd with a good knowledge of their own history, this Romanian political comedy takes place at the turn of the 20th century, when two opposing factions are going at each other tooth and nail to win an election. One candidate...

The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to th...

TV adaptation after I.L. Caragiale play....

Mofturi 1900 is a 1964 Romanian comedic film directed by Jean Georgescu and based on Ion Luca Caragiale's many Moments and Sketches. The sketches used are "Diplomatie" ("Diplomacy"), "Amicii" ("Pals"), "O lacuna" ("A gap"), "Bubico", "C.F.R." (abbrev...

Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel-man, having Mihai Solca - a sort of communist industrial hero- as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he so...

"Post Restant" is about two engineers: Puiu (Iurie Darie), a quite shy character, and Dan (Ion Dichiseanu) an alpha male type. They receive a letter from Liliana, a letter which is actually meant for the former apartment owner. Puiu replies to the le...

Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity....

Adaptation based on the sketch "Doi vecini" by Tudor Arghezi....

The tranquility of a Romanian village is shattered by the arrival of a beautiful unknown coinciding with the discovery of a new star by a modest professor of astronomy ......

Movie adaptation after Carlo Goldoni`s "I rusteghi" comedy, written in 1760....

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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.......

A star of a small town soccer team gets involved with the pretty sister of his main rival in the team....

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Two awarded bakers try to make out with girls by lying about their profession, but when they pretend to be doctors they get caught....

Bing and Bang, two dreamy unemployed people, wandering through Cismigiu, receive a lottery ticket as a gift from a friend. Looking for work in Snagov, they find a musical show there, then decide to return to Bucharest where they end up hungry and tir...