Aurel Giurumia

A petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection.

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A computer programmer falls in love with an architect, which, after her parents died, is responsible for her 4 younger siblings. He conquers her by first befriending her brothers and sisters.

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The favorite plot for communist propagandists: a new agronomist comes in the village and gets in conflict with the local cooperative president. Everything ends well. Sprinkled with jokes.

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Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.

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Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.

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In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.

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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.

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A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.

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A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.

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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.

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Resistance fighters blow up munitions depots on a Danube port in Romania, and attack an armament supply convoy for the German troupes.

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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.

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Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.

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In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing.

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An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.

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Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.

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A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.

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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.

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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.

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Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures of two friends, the Romanian Anton Lupan and the French Pierre Vaillant. Anton Lupan tries to find the L'Esperance schooner, which belonged to them, wiyhout knowing that it was a victim of a pirate attack. But he hopes in particular to find Pierre, so they can start on a trip to an uncharted land, which they attempted several times to explore unsuccessfully. He found the ship, but his friend was nowhere to be found. Anton was forced to leave on a trip across Atlantic, to Tierra del Fuego.

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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.

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In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.

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In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the casting repeatedly breaks and deadlines loom, he must overcome engineering hurdles and personal sacrifices to see the vessel launched with the home-forged propeller.

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Maria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record.

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'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the first part where the group of boys find themselves adrift at sea.

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After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.

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During the times of the Second World War in Royal Romania, a street smart kid accidentally becomes part of an organization which will eventually decide the future of his country.

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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.

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A group of students from an architectural institute, instead of going to the mountains, accidentally end up in a vacation home by the sea. Here, after a series of amusing adventures, they successfully perform with their amateur variety orchestra.

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In a small provincial town, members of the Illegalist Movement are feverishly preparing for Liberation Day. The Fre Freckle, a cute 14-year-old boy, becomes the hero of these events, which are being led from the shadows by his friend and comrade Andrei. With the help of his history teacher, his father and, more often than not, his dog Calu, the boy faces any challenge with ease and courage.

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