Movies: Lazăr Vrabie

Ciulei’s second feature recalls the best of Fritz Lang and Michael Curtiz in its WWII-era espionage tale, set on a barge transporting Nazi munitions up the Danube. Ciulei himself givers a superb performance as Mihai, the barge captain forced to navig...

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform....

A director of a shipyard abusively fires a foreman who has opposing ideas....

Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption....

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural mon...

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks....

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 commissio...

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania....

The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby....

In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta....

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Dying in the trenches during World War II, Stefan looks back at his own life and that of his father. Through his memories, the film presents a story that embraces two generations and various eras. It is a film about the tragedy of lives dragged into ...

When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring....