Jean Lorin Florescu

Jean Lorin Florescu

Born: May 5, 1924
in Bucharest, Romania

Movies for Jean Lorin Florescu...

The Season of Love
Title: The Season of Love
Released: August 4, 1987
Type: Movie
The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers.
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The Extras
Title: The Extras
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"
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The Turquoise Necklace
Title: The Turquoise Necklace
Character: Pater Fortunatos
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: Movie
5th movie in the "Margelatu" series
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Călifar's Mill
Title: Călifar's Mill
Character: Kirim
Released: October 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoica.
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Surorile
Title: Surorile
Released: August 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Three sisters that had a tranquil life in a town suffer dramatic life changes at the end of WW2.
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The Story of the Voyages
Title: The Story of the Voyages
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.
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Comoara
Title: Comoara
Character: Martinuzzi
Released: January 10, 1983
Type: Movie
A local Romanian chieftain in 16th century Transylvania discovers a great treasure of Decebalus. He decides to send it for safekeeping in Moldavia, but he has to evade the Transylvanian prince and the king of Hungary, who get wind of it and want it for themselves.
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Life Like Laughing
Title: Life Like Laughing
Character: Vilas
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Three youngsters are sent to "re-education through labor" on a hydro dam construction site. They prove in the end to fare much better than some of their colleagues.
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Yellow Rose
Title: Yellow Rose
Released: May 31, 1982
Type: Movie
The second movie in the "Margelatu" series.
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Stefan Luchian
Title: Stefan Luchian
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.
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At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Title: At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Character: Aga Manu
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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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Title: Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Character: Avrum the Bartender
Released: April 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
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Alone Amongst Friends
Title: Alone Amongst Friends
Character: Captain
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.
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Operation 'The Bus'
Title: Operation 'The Bus'
Character: Willy Cristodul
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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The Great Solitary
Title: The Great Solitary
Character: inginer zootehnist
Released: September 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.
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Gloria nu cîntă
Title: Gloria nu cîntă
Released: May 16, 1977
Type: Movie
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Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Title: Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
Character: Gogu Pomișor
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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Alarm in the Delta
Title: Alarm in the Delta
Released: January 5, 1976
Type: Movie
During the 1970s a foreign smuggler is taking hostages and threatening to sabotage a river pumping station if he is not aided in his attempt to smuggle ancient artifacts out of Romania.Two young local boys foil his plans.
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Filip the Kind
Title: Filip the Kind
Released: February 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
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Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
Title: Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
Character: Benedetto Dei
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
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No Trespassing
Title: No Trespassing
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The film follows the stories of a handful of characters: Andrei (Radescu), who finds himself in conflict with his peers; Colonel Maxineanu (Stanculescu), the school commander; and Adrian (Mavrodineanu), a young villager who is inspired by the bravery of the cadets. The Hungarians arrive and launch a series of attacks against the Romanians. The Axis are pushed back again and again, despite superior numbers and weaponry. At the end of the film, they launch one last attack, which seems to momentarily begin breaking through. Just at that moment, reinforcements from the Soviet and Romanian armies arrive, pushing the Hungarians back.
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A Police Inspector Calls
Title: A Police Inspector Calls
Character: Alexandru Dincă
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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With Clean Hands
Title: With Clean Hands
Character: Bleoarcă
Released: October 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.
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Farewell, Dear Nela!
Title: Farewell, Dear Nela!
Character: Arghir
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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Felix and Otilia
Title: Felix and Otilia
Character: Toader Rațiu
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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Săptămâna nebunilor
Title: Săptămâna nebunilor
Released: July 11, 1971
Type: Movie
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Michael the Brave
Title: Michael the Brave
Character: Archduke Maximilian
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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The War of the Princesses
Title: The War of the Princesses
Released: July 10, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Kidnapping of the Maidens
Title: The Kidnapping of the Maidens
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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Seven Guys and a Gal
Title: Seven Guys and a Gal
Character: Pastagnac
Released: March 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
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The Soimaresti Clan
Title: The Soimaresti Clan
Character: Corecki
Released: April 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
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Merriment Ward
Title: Merriment Ward
Character: Rahova Jr.
Released: October 12, 1964
Type: Movie
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
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Celebrul 702
Title: Celebrul 702
Released: October 22, 1962
Type: Movie
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Porto-Franco
Title: Porto-Franco
Character: Strike Breaker
Released: December 28, 1961
Type: Movie
The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
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On My Responsibility
Title: On My Responsibility
Released: May 11, 1956
Type: Movie
A fashion designer creates an ugly model and he won't back down against all advice.
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Alarm in the Mountains
Title: Alarm in the Mountains
Character: Miopul
Released: December 22, 1955
Type: Movie
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Gelozia bat-o vina
Title: Gelozia bat-o vina
Character: Ionita
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie