Jean Constantin

Jean Constantin

Born: August 21, 1928
Died: May 26, 2010
in Techirghiol, Constanța, România

Movies for Jean Constantin...

The Survivor
Title: The Survivor
Character: Limba
Released: April 10, 2008
Type: Movie
After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central European town where Goldberg, an old acquaintance of his is organizing an "improved" version of the game where two opponents are shooting each other. Step by step Moldovan meets lots of familiar faces, both friends and enemies. It looks like the whole Bucharest's underworld from the 40's chose to meet here.
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ROMing
Title: ROMing
Character: Somáli
Released: May 31, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Way I Spent the End of the World
Title: The Way I Spent the End of the World
Character: Uncle Florică
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
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Păcală se întoarce
Title: Păcală se întoarce
Character: The Gypsy
Released: June 9, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Meseriașii
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: TV
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Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh
Title: Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh
Character: Ismail
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Second Fall of Constantinople
Title: The Second Fall of Constantinople
Character: Ismail
Released: January 6, 1994
Type: Movie
A romanian comedy from 1994
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Attack in the Library
Title: Attack in the Library
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Andrei Mladin, a young investigative reporter, is set up for two murders by a criminal that he brought to justice earlier.
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Miss Litoral
Title: Miss Litoral
Character: Nea Mielu, căpitan de cursă lungă
Released: May 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Nea Costel and her consort, Didona, want their daughter, Tina, to participate in the Miss Litoral beauty contest. But Tina is in love with a shy and jealous boy who does not see in Tina a beauty of the kind that appears on the covers of magazines and wants to keep her only for himself.
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Every Day I Miss You
Title: Every Day I Miss You
Character: Gică
Released: May 23, 1988
Type: Movie
A young girl is cast for a musical comedy, but she refuses after her father doesn't let her play in it. After that, more offers emerge, along with a hit song dedicated to her from a infatuated admirer.
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Secretul lui Nemesis
Title: Secretul lui Nemesis
Character: James Giovanni Cocoloș
Released: November 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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Cucoana Chirița
Title: Cucoana Chirița
Character: Barabulă
Released: May 11, 1986
Type: Movie
The Bârzoi manor comes back to life when the lady of the house, Chirița, sends news that she will be soon coming back from Paris. As the City of Light has changed her views on the world, the family and the help must follow.
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The Turquoise Necklace
Title: The Turquoise Necklace
Character: Prof. Aurică
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: Movie
5th movie in the "Margelatu" series
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The Silver Mask
Title: The Silver Mask
Character: „profesorul” Aurică
Released: May 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Margelatu has to clear his name.
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The Migrant Birds Are Coming
Title: The Migrant Birds Are Coming
Character: Marin
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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The Secret of Bacchus
Title: The Secret of Bacchus
Character: Trandafir Bulbuc
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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Un petic de cer
Title: Un petic de cer
Character: Gică
Released: January 23, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Mysteries of Bucharest
Title: The Mysteries of Bucharest
Character: profesorul Aurică
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: Movie
The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societies are working to chase away the Prince Gheorge Bibescu from his throne, arms are transported on secret ways, preparing the first popular revolts in Bucharest, as the first act of the Revolution of 1848, which revolution is the first impulse of the later act of the Union of the Wallachia with Moldova (Romanian United Principalities in 1862, Kingdom of Romania in 1881 and Kingdom of Greater Romania 1918, with Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia).
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Mercenaries' Trap
Title: Mercenaries' Trap
Character: Corcodel
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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Iancu Jianu, Outlaw
Title: Iancu Jianu, Outlaw
Character: Corcodel
Released: September 2, 1981
Type: Movie
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The Duel
Title: The Duel
Character: Limbă (Tongue)
Released: June 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief.
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Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector
Title: Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector
Character: Corcodel
Released: February 9, 1981
Type: Movie
The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.
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The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
Title: The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
Character: Temistocles
Released: January 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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Crew for Singapore
Title: Crew for Singapore
Character: Cucu
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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I have an Idea
Title: I have an Idea
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
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The third deadly jump
Title: The third deadly jump
Character: Blufferini
Released: July 21, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Man We Need
Title: The Man We Need
Character: Coach
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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Arms of Afrodite
Title: Arms of Afrodite
Character: Jean
Released: March 26, 1979
Type: Movie
A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.
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Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
Title: Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
Character: Teach, șef de bandă
Released: February 5, 1979
Type: Movie
At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.
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Anything for Soccer
Title: Anything for Soccer
Character: Max, animatorul galeriei echipei de fotbal
Released: December 18, 1978
Type: Movie
In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Limba
Released: November 12, 1978
Type: Movie
"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together with the communist that fight to gain power, Moldovan takes out his enemies one by one.
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Melodii, melodii
Title: Melodii, melodii
Character: Grecu
Released: July 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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Expresul de Buftea
Title: Expresul de Buftea
Character: Jean
Released: July 13, 1978
Type: Movie
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September
Title: September
Character: Jorj
Released: April 3, 1978
Type: Movie
After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best one would be his father in Bucharest. To get there, he steals a motorcycle. In Bucharest he meets store clerk Anișoara, and he invites her to a seaside escapade. Their one day of love and future optimism is ended abruptly by a tragic motorcycle accident.
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I, You, and Ovidiu
Title: I, You, and Ovidiu
Character: Misica
Released: February 27, 1978
Type: Movie
A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime.
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Operation 'The Bus'
Title: Operation 'The Bus'
Character: Gypsy
Released: January 16, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
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Shootings Under the Moonlight
Title: Shootings Under the Moonlight
Character: Badea Cîrleci
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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Gloria nu cîntă
Title: Gloria nu cîntă
Character: Fane
Released: May 16, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Full Sail
Character: Ismail
Released: March 1, 1977
Type: TV
Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures of two friends, the Romanian Anton Lupan and the French Pierre Vaillant. Anton Lupan tries to find the L'Esperance schooner, which belonged to them, wiyhout knowing that it was a victim of a pirate attack. But he hopes in particular to find Pierre, so they can start on a trip to an uncharted land, which they attempted several times to explore unsuccessfully. He found the ship, but his friend was nowhere to be found. Anton was forced to leave on a trip across Atlantic, to Tierra del Fuego.
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Oil
Title: Oil
Character: Jean
Released: February 28, 1977
Type: Movie
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
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The Redhead
Title: The Redhead
Character: Thief Achim / Tungsram
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: Vârlan
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: Cârlig
Released: June 7, 1976
Type: Movie
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
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Hot Days
Title: Hot Days
Character: Cristea
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Ion Ion
Released: August 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia.
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We Do Not Film Just for Fun
Title: We Do Not Film Just for Fun
Character: Painter / Petrică
Released: March 24, 1975
Type: Movie
This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
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The Immortals
Title: The Immortals
Character: Scurtu
Released: December 23, 1974
Type: Movie
It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
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The Martens Brothers
Title: The Martens Brothers
Character: Zailic
Released: June 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
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A Police Inspector Calls
Title: A Police Inspector Calls
Character: Limbă
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...
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The Poseidon Explosion
Title: The Poseidon Explosion
Released: July 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city
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The Last Bullet
Title: The Last Bullet
Character: Floacă, zis Stampă
Released: May 26, 1973
Type: Movie
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).
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Stejar, extremă urgență
Title: Stejar, extremă urgență
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Farewell, Dear Nela!
Title: Farewell, Dear Nela!
Character: The Italian tourist
Released: June 30, 1972
Type: Movie
When a rich Romanian lawyer aims to find his 2 long-lost sons and inheritors he places an ad in the newspaper but many crooks show up instead.
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The Dowry of Lady Ralu
Title: The Dowry of Lady Ralu
Character: Parpanghel
Released: April 9, 1972
Type: Movie
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Felix and Otilia
Title: Felix and Otilia
Released: March 20, 1972
Type: Movie
In this monumental Romanian film, a large family and its many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. This movie is based on a popular novel by George Calinescu, and is similar in some ways to England's BBC television series, The Forsythe Saga, based on Galsworthy's books. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge. In one story, a poor young man is disappointed in love as his girl chooses lucre over love in selecting a mate.
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Asediul
Title: Asediul
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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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
Title: Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
Character: Patraulea
Released: July 26, 1971
Type: Movie
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
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Săptămâna nebunilor
Title: Săptămâna nebunilor
Character: Parpanghel
Released: July 11, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Outlaws of Sevenhorses
Title: The Outlaws of Sevenhorses
Character: Parpanghel
Released: March 27, 1971
Type: Movie
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Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea
Title: Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea
Character: Patraulea
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
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The Canary and the Blizzard
Title: The Canary and the Blizzard
Character: Animal Tamer
Released: September 21, 1970
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1933, an illegalist (a communist, member of a political party a party outlawed at the time) assumes the mission of a wounded colleague to transmit a secret message.
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Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In
Title: Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In
Character: Patraulea
Released: June 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.
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Too Little for Such a Big War
Title: Too Little for Such a Big War
Released: February 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troop as they march to join the Russians in fighting the Nazis. He watches as one of his friends dies after destroying a German machine gun nest. He is slapped by a Rumanian soldier who is livid over the boy's nonchalance of his friend's death. He becomes a mascot of the advancing unit as they proceed to a castle in Czechoslovakia. When the men dress in armor for a group picture, they are killed by the Nazis. The boy returns to find the men have been wiped out and he is taken prisoner by a German soldier. The Nazi falls victim to marauding peasants seeking revenge. They rescue the young warrior and escort him back to his home in Rumania.
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The Axe
Title: The Axe
Released: October 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
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The Revenge of the Outlaws
Title: The Revenge of the Outlaws
Character: Parpanghel
Released: April 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Second of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.
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The Kidnapping of the Maidens
Title: The Kidnapping of the Maidens
Character: Parpanghel
Released: March 12, 1968
Type: Movie
In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them.
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The Major and Death
Title: The Major and Death
Character: Driver
Released: June 19, 1967
Type: Movie
A police major is investigating a gangster.
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The Outlaws
Title: The Outlaws
Character: Parpanghel
Released: April 21, 1966
Type: Movie
First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.
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The Boss of Champignol
Title: The Boss of Champignol
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
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White Trial
Title: White Trial
Character: Gică Hau Hau
Released: February 14, 1966
Type: Movie
Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend. Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen Barbu.
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Title: Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Character: Fourak
Released: December 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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The Baron of the Locks
Title: The Baron of the Locks
Character: Prince Héliakim Sadokkan
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.