Octavian Cotescu

Octavian Cotescu

Born: February 14, 1931
Died: August 22, 1985
in Dorohoi, Botoşani, Romania

Movies for Octavian Cotescu...

Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
Title: Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Collection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made.
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A Spare Moment
Title: A Spare Moment
Released: April 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.
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Repeated Wedding
Title: Repeated Wedding
Character: Costica Popescu
Released: October 28, 1985
Type: Movie
This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie.
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Promisses
Title: Promisses
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
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Prea cald pentru luna mai
Title: Prea cald pentru luna mai
Character: Teclu
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
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The Migrant Birds Are Coming
Title: The Migrant Birds Are Coming
Character: Joil
Released: March 25, 1984
Type: Movie
In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
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Circus Performers at the North Pole
Title: Circus Performers at the North Pole
Character: Marcelloni
Released: March 16, 1984
Type: Movie
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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The Secret of Bacchus
Title: The Secret of Bacchus
Character: Vladimir Cocea
Released: March 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
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A Swan in Winter
Title: A Swan in Winter
Character: Mirea
Released: December 5, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Story of the Voyages
Title: The Story of the Voyages
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.
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Escapada
Title: Escapada
Character: Director
Released: May 9, 1983
Type: Movie
A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
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Miezul fierbinte al painii
Title: Miezul fierbinte al painii
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Sword Swallower
Title: Sword Swallower
Character: The Mayor
Released: April 19, 1982
Type: Movie
The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".
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Stay with You
Title: Stay with You
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.
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Bucharest Identity Card
Title: Bucharest Identity Card
Character: Costică Popescu
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...
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The Computer Testifies
Title: The Computer Testifies
Character: Ștefan Spirescu
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim.
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Circus Performers
Title: Circus Performers
Released: September 24, 1981
Type: Movie
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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The Carpathian Castle
Title: The Carpathian Castle
Character: Impresarul
Released: March 23, 1981
Type: Movie
In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Released: February 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
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Poor Ioanide
Title: Poor Ioanide
Character: profesorul universitar Ion Pomponescu
Released: April 28, 1980
Type: Movie
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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Title: Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Character: Zaharia Herdelea
Released: April 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
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The Man We Need
Title: The Man We Need
Character: Nedelcu
Released: November 16, 1979
Type: Movie
A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
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Tragic Vacation
Title: Tragic Vacation
Character: Manole
Released: May 21, 1979
Type: Movie
During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.
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The Moment
Title: The Moment
Character: Arvinte Panait
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed.
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The Hope
Title: The Hope
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers' rights and organizer of the trade union movement in Romania.
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Alone Amongst Friends
Title: Alone Amongst Friends
Character: Adrianopol
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.
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Together Again
Title: Together Again
Released: December 11, 1978
Type: Movie
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.
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Shootings Under the Moonlight
Title: Shootings Under the Moonlight
Character: Brother Beldea
Released: December 12, 1977
Type: Movie
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
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The Green Grass of Home
Title: The Green Grass of Home
Character: inspectorul Ghimboașă
Released: December 5, 1977
Type: Movie
After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.
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Iarna bobocilor
Title: Iarna bobocilor
Character: Comentator
Released: September 10, 1977
Type: Movie
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Aurel Vlaicu
Title: Aurel Vlaicu
Character: Alexandru Vlahuță
Released: June 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer.
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A Lost Letter
Title: A Lost Letter
Character: Nae Catavencu
Released: June 7, 1977
Type: Movie
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 the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess...
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Gloria nu cîntă
Title: Gloria nu cîntă
Character: Leonard
Released: May 16, 1977
Type: Movie
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Tufă de Veneția
Title: Tufă de Veneția
Character: Povestitorul
Released: January 10, 1977
Type: Movie
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Serenade for the 12th Floor
Title: Serenade for the 12th Floor
Character: Professor ”Balaurul” (The Dragon)
Released: December 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood.
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Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Title: Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Character: Grandpa
Released: November 22, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The Court Adjourns the Sentencing
Title: The Court Adjourns the Sentencing
Character: Bârsan
Released: June 7, 1976
Type: Movie
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
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Penelope's Condition
Title: Penelope's Condition
Character: voce
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.
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Operation 'The Monster'
Title: Operation 'The Monster'
Character: Eugen
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.
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Magic Circle
Title: Magic Circle
Character: Mircea Vigu
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
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Autumn of the Goslings
Title: Autumn of the Goslings
Character: Comentator
Released: January 9, 1975
Type: Movie
The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by most of the people in the village, most of them believing that neither of them will stay there. However they will be proved wrong as the young graduates, except the French teacher, want to stay there,do their job the best they know how and try to get used to the ways of that community . After you see this movie you can't help loving all the characters.
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The Prodigal Father
Title: The Prodigal Father
Character: Boilă
Released: September 23, 1974
Type: Movie
This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.
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Păcală
Title: Păcală
Character: The Collector
Released: January 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: Movie
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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Hidden Mountain
Title: Hidden Mountain
Character: Sâmbotan
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family.
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Bariera
Title: Bariera
Character: muncitorul Vitu
Released: December 11, 1972
Type: Movie
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Through Dusky Ways
Title: Through Dusky Ways
Character: redactor sef
Released: October 2, 1972
Type: Movie
When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but will she be able to seize this new oportunity for happiness?
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The Power and The Truth
Title: The Power and The Truth
Character: Tiberiu Manu
Released: February 15, 1972
Type: Movie
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Title: Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Character: Doctorul Bunu
Released: January 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
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Asediul
Title: Asediul
Character: Trifu
Released: August 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people.
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The Castle of the Condemned
Title: The Castle of the Condemned
Character: Costăchel
Released: May 4, 1970
Type: Movie
After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.
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The Saturday Night Dance
Title: The Saturday Night Dance
Character: Toma
Released: May 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls.
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Boga Sisters
Title: Boga Sisters
Released: February 1, 1968
Type: Movie
This is about the lives of three sisters during the second World War in Romania. Based on the homonymous play by Horia Lovinescu.
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The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Title: The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Character: Stefan
Released: January 16, 1967
Type: Movie
A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
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A Night Long Love
Title: A Night Long Love
Character: Mihai
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A psychological movie about the life of three sisters in a Romanian village.
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Tanta si Costel - Iubirea e un lucru foarte mare
Title: Tanta si Costel - Iubirea e un lucru foarte mare
Released: April 5, 1962
Type: Movie