Constantin Codrescu

Constantin Codrescu

Born: September 5, 1931
Died: November 14, 2022
in Huși, Vaslui, România

Movies for Constantin Codrescu...

The Ladder
Title: The Ladder
Character: Priest Necula
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.
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Family Album
Title: Family Album
Character: Titus
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to lower the financial deficit of his company. As the elections draw closer, attention is focused on the suspicions which arose shortly after Moraru stepped into the life of politics, regarding some financial misconducts. Moraru has to resist the siege, lead by two of his former friends and associates, who are trying to take advantage of the situation and remove him from his leading position in the company. This is yet another battle for Moraru, who sticks to his principles, even though they had cost him his family.
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Terente: The King of Swamps
Title: Terente: The King of Swamps
Character: Amiralul
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: Movie
The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta.
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Doi haiduci şi o crâşmăriţă
Title: Doi haiduci şi o crâşmăriţă
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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The Season of the Seagulls
Title: The Season of the Seagulls
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis. But when an important damage takes place in the factory where both of them work, the first one’s incompetence comes out.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Pană Vulpescu
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
At the end of XIX century, Romania, A boyar tries to send a trunk full of jewels to his daughter abroad. Only that the trunk doesn't make the trip, so the daughter comes in the country to recover it, enlisting the help of some outlaws.
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Everything is Paid
Title: Everything is Paid
Character: Eliade
Released: December 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Sixth "Margelatu" movie
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The Beech Forest
Title: The Beech Forest
Character: Telecom Director
Released: August 17, 1987
Type: Movie
In August 1944 Romania, a group of telephone operators are caught in the events in a new center placed in a forest to evade bombardment.
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Un oaspete la cină
Title: Un oaspete la cină
Character: Professor Pandrea
Released: November 24, 1986
Type: Movie
A love story between a worker and an architecture student from a well to do family that has to overcome prejudice.
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Bătălia din umbră
Title: Bătălia din umbră
Character: Mihai Cernăianu
Released: September 22, 1986
Type: Movie
In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.
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The Turquoise Necklace
Title: The Turquoise Necklace
Character: primul căuzaș
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: Movie
5th movie in the "Margelatu" series
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The Silver Mask
Title: The Silver Mask
Character: Ion Heliade-Rădulescu
Released: May 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Margelatu has to clear his name.
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Yellow Rose
Title: Yellow Rose
Character: Rosetti
Released: May 31, 1982
Type: Movie
The second movie in the "Margelatu" series.
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Mercenaries' Trap
Title: Mercenaries' Trap
Character: Mayer
Released: May 13, 1982
Type: Movie
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman
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At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Title: At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Character: Eliade-Rădulescu
Released: December 8, 1980
Type: Movie
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
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Poor Ioanide
Title: Poor Ioanide
Character: funcționarul de stat Dinu Gaittani
Released: April 28, 1980
Type: Movie
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Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula
Title: Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula
Character: Iunus Beg
Released: January 8, 1979
Type: Movie
Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.
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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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For Motherland
Title: For Motherland
Character: C.A. Rosetti
Released: May 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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The Redhead
Title: The Redhead
Character: Florica Potra
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: Movie
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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Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Title: Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Character: First Judge
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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Three Days and Three Nights
Title: Three Days and Three Nights
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
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Magic Circle
Title: Magic Circle
Character: Mihai Onu
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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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Vlăsceanu
Released: August 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia.
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Title: The Freckled Boy
Released: December 23, 1973
Type: TV
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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The Dowry of Lady Ralu
Title: The Dowry of Lady Ralu
Character: Ianuli
Released: April 9, 1972
Type: Movie
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Săptămâna nebunilor
Title: Săptămâna nebunilor
Character: Ianuli
Released: July 11, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Outlaws of Sevenhorses
Title: The Outlaws of Sevenhorses
Character: Lanuli
Released: March 27, 1971
Type: Movie
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Michael the Brave
Title: Michael the Brave
Character: Wallachian Prince Alexander the Bad
Released: February 13, 1971
Type: Movie
An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.
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Underneath the Surface
Title: Underneath the Surface
Character: Albu
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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Virgo Sign
Title: Virgo Sign
Released: January 23, 1967
Type: Movie
In the fall, under the sign of Virgo, in a Dobrogea village, the harvest festival is in progress. An amateur troupe is playing a scene with Afrodite, Dionysos and Neptune; but also dome old shamanic dances. Dița and Dionis are preparing for wedding. But the sins of their parents will weigh heavily on them.
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The Uprising
Title: The Uprising
Character: Baloleanu
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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The White Moor
Title: The White Moor
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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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Released: October 8, 1964
Type: Movie
The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.
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Your Part of the Blame
Title: Your Part of the Blame
Character: Banu
Released: November 28, 1963
Type: Movie
This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organization tries to convince him to improve his skills become a qualified worker but he refuses saying that he soon wants to go back to his village and be a shepherd.
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The Kid
Title: The Kid
Character: Cardiologist
Released: March 26, 1962
Type: Movie
A kid discovers he has heart disease, his mother was trying to keep that from him. He is depressed that he cannot play with the other children. For his mother there is a dilema: not to take any risks and have his boy lead an isolated life, or go with the risky heart surgery.
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Mîndrie
Title: Mîndrie
Released: March 31, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Mill of Good Luck
Title: The Mill of Good Luck
Character: Ghiță
Released: January 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Follows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost.
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Nepoţii gornistului
Title: Nepoţii gornistului
Character: Illes
Released: October 17, 1953
Type: Movie
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Pistruiatul 2: Ascunzișuri
Title: Pistruiatul 2: Ascunzișuri
Character: Potra
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie