Virgil Andriescu

Virgil Andriescu

Born: April 26, 1936
in Bucureşti, Romania

Movies for Virgil Andriescu...

War in the Kitchen
Title: War in the Kitchen
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Feature film.
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Point Zero
Title: Point Zero
Character: Generalul Duma
Released: March 8, 1996
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, two American spies are sent undercover to retrieve a list of East Bloc agents working in the west.
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Huntress: Spirit of the Night
Title: Huntress: Spirit of the Night
Character: Train Conductor
Released: December 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Tara returns to her ancestral estate only to have her clothes explode off her body and a white light enter her chest. Afterwards she’s tormented by strange desires and dreams of running through the woods. Her cave-dwelling boyfriend is no help to her. Meanwhile, false friends plot to steal her inheritance and a determined hunter seeks to slay the new werewolf in town.
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Ulysses' Gaze
Title: Ulysses' Gaze
Character: Riverboat Captain
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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Mincinosul
Title: Mincinosul
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The son of Pantalone, the honest Venetian merchant, Lelio Bisognosi, the liar, is a brilliant young man wandering the world. For twenty years he lived with an uncle in Naples, then returned to his native city with his servant Arlecchino. Here, he has the opportunity to meet Dr. Balanzoni's daughters, Rosaura and Beatrice, while, in the absence of their father, they enjoy being serenaded by an unknown admirer on the terrace of the house. The author of the serenade is Florindo, a student and tenant of the doctor, who shyly loves Rosaura, not daring to reveal his feelings. Lelio does not miss the opportunity: he introduces himself to the girls in the guise of a rich marquis and claims that he is the author of the serenade, without revealing which of the two he is in love with. But for the sake of the art of "spiritual inventions", Lelio delights in describing himself in various lies, not without undesirable consequences...
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Mirror
Title: Mirror
Released: February 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.
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Sundays on Leave
Title: Sundays on Leave
Released: May 26, 1993
Type: Movie
It is late in the Ceausescu era in Romania, and Cristina is having a difficult time with her boyfriend. He wants her to have sex with him before he goes off to do his obligatory stint in the army. She wants him to marry her first. She also gets involved with a slightly rebellious actor, a would-be ladies' man. He has some vague plans to defect - could those be the reason he is receiving mysterious phone calls? Or are they the work of his anonymous admirer?
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Look Ahead with Anger
Title: Look Ahead with Anger
Released: April 4, 1993
Type: Movie
After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.
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The Oak
Title: The Oak
Character: Truica
Released: September 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
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Divorț... din dragoste
Title: Divorț... din dragoste
Character: inginerul Dorel, cumpărătorii mașinii
Released: April 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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The Great Vacation
Title: The Great Vacation
Character: Bebe
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.
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The Beech Forest
Title: The Beech Forest
Character: Pascu
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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Niște băieți grozavi
Title: Niște băieți grozavi
Character: Mitrică
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A farm team-leader, Tudor, is accused for having failed the harvesting. Unhappy with what he considers an unfair verdict, he leaves the farm and moves to another village, getting a job as an ordinary worker in another farm. At first, he is upset by the very severe leader of that team, Mihai, but soon he discovers that his hard style is necessary to keep the work in good order and face all the problems. He also finds a bunch of great friends (the "Swell Guys" / "...baieti grozavi" in the title) and learns in what had consisted his own past mistakes. —Mihnea Columbeanu
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Bătălia din umbră
Title: Bătălia din umbră
Character: Ungureanu
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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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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An Item of News
Title: An Item of News
Character: Foarță
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.
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Passo Doble
Title: Passo Doble
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.
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Mireasma ploilor târzii
Title: Mireasma ploilor târzii
Character: Mitrică
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Paul Vasiliu, a geologist, returns to his native village. Excavating for irrigation works gives him the opportunity to discover some valuable minerals. Now he has to convince the villagers to postpone theirs lifelong dream of having irrigations in their fields to examine if the mineral deposits are economically viable. A common communist propaganda item of those times.
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Fatally Injured by Love of Life
Title: Fatally Injured by Love of Life
Released: November 16, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of two men working with the underground movement in 1934.
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Crew for Singapore
Title: Crew for Singapore
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Ulzana
Title: Ulzana
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.
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A Cloudless Vacation
Title: A Cloudless Vacation
Released: May 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Péter and Pál, two notorious skirt hunters competing in wooing Oana, a pretty Romanian girl on the beach at Tihany. A couple of days later the girl gets a telegram saying that she has to leave for Bucharest immediately. The party - which has increased with Piri, the interpreter, and Ági, the hitch-hiker - gets to a Romanian village by Peter's ramshackle car, a 1921 Colymne. The car, however, breaks down.