Emil Botta

Emil Botta

Born: September 17, 1911
Died: July 24, 1977
in Adjud, Vrancea, Romania

Movies for Emil Botta...

The Premiere
Title: The Premiere
Character: Vasilică Savu
Released: November 8, 1976
Type: Movie
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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Beyond the Sands
Title: Beyond the Sands
Character: Printul Ipsilanti
Released: February 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
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The Column
Title: The Column
Character: Marele Preot al dacilor
Released: October 18, 1968
Type: Movie
The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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Reconstruction
Title: Reconstruction
Character: Paveliu
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
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Underneath the Surface
Title: Underneath the Surface
Character: Barbu
Released: October 31, 1967
Type: Movie
A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.
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The Dacians
Title: The Dacians
Character: mare preot dac
Released: May 31, 1967
Type: Movie
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
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Faust XX
Title: Faust XX
Character: Faust
Released: December 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A terminally ill professor gets an immoral offer.
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The Uprising
Title: The Uprising
Character: Anton Nebunul
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
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Chess to the King
Title: Chess to the King
Character: Deliu
Released: January 26, 1966
Type: Movie
When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring.
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The White Moor
Title: The White Moor
Character: Roșu Împărat
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Adapted from a folk legend, it tells the story of a bad-tempered nobleman and his chronically useless younger son - who dreams of being the mythical hero Harap Alb.
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Forest of the Hanged
Title: Forest of the Hanged
Character: Cervenko
Released: March 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
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Steps to the Moon
Title: Steps to the Moon
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An aspiring astronaut prepares his ship for take-off, plugs in a razor and causes a blackout. In the deep darkness the boy imagines himself meeting the literary characters who have enthralled readers past with their stories of space travel.
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Poveste sentimentala
Title: Poveste sentimentala
Character: Dr. Pantazi
Released: May 28, 1962
Type: Movie
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A Bomb Was Stolen
Title: A Bomb Was Stolen
Character: Somerhot
Released: January 23, 1962
Type: Movie
A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.
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Life Doesn't Spare
Title: Life Doesn't Spare
Released: June 4, 1960
Type: Movie
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 conflicts against their will, of lives violently ruined or ended – a story about the devastating consequences of war. Interweaving past and present, the flashback narrative depicts the war as a perpetual situation where the „little people” always turn out to be on the losing side.
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Family Jewels
Title: Family Jewels
Character: Mișu Vorvoreanu
Released: April 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.