Vasile Popa

Vasile Popa

Born: March 23, 1947
in Bucureşti, Romania

Movies for Vasile Popa...

The Gentleman from the Courtyard
Title: The Gentleman from the Courtyard
Character: Gypsy
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to burn it down. But he locks himself in a courtyard by mistake. He stays trapped for days, the neighborhood being deserted. He tries communicating with the few remaining residents and changes from a civilized being to a beast, until finding new perspectives. Will he leave the courtyard, or not?
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Umilință
Title: Umilință
Character: Milică
Released: February 25, 2011
Type: Movie
In a forgotten village with lazy people and corrupt leadership, Pacoste must suffer for a mistake made in his past. His only friend is a young boy who finds in him a father figure.
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Red Gloves
Title: Red Gloves
Character: Securitate Plainclothes 4
Released: June 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.
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Sindromul Timișoara
Title: Sindromul Timișoara
Released: December 17, 2004
Type: Movie
A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.
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Point Zero
Title: Point Zero
Character: Terrorist Leader
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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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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Un oaspete la cină
Title: Un oaspete la cină
Character: Pavel
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
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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Dommnișoara Aurica
Title: Dommnișoara Aurica
Released: December 15, 1985
Type: Movie
This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind.
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Forest Fruit
Title: Forest Fruit
Released: November 21, 1983
Type: Movie
The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the soldier refuses to admit that he is the father of the child to be born, as Amalia was just a fling in his eyes. Amalia decides to raise the kid all by herself, but she soon changes her mind…
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On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube
Title: On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube
Released: July 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Encounter
Title: The Encounter
Character: Ifrim
Released: August 16, 1982
Type: Movie
This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII.
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Blue Bird
Title: Blue Bird
Character: 1. Kidnapper
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name "Blue Bird." The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians.
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The Punishment
Title: The Punishment
Character: Lamplighter
Released: September 13, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
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The Last Bullet
Title: The Last Bullet
Released: May 26, 1973
Type: Movie
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).