Mircea Diaconu

Mircea Diaconu

Born: December 24, 1949
in Vlădești, Argeș, Romania
Born in Vlădești, Argeș County, he graduated high school in Câmpulung in 1967 and Bucharest's Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1971. He made his theatrical debut a year before graduating, at the Bulandra Theater, in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. His screen debut came in Dan Pița's Nunta de piatră (1972); he would later appear in the same director's Filip cel Bun (1975). Other directors with whom he has worked include Alexandru Tatos (Mere roșii, 1975; Secvențe, 1982; and Secretul armei secrete, 1988), Virgil Calotescu (Buletin de București, 1982; and Căsătorie cu repetiție, 1985), Nae Caranfil (Asfalt Tango, 1996; and Filantropica, 2002) and Cătălin Mitulescu (The Way I Spent the End of the World, 2006). In all, he has appeared in more than sixty films.

Diaconu worked with Lucian Pintilie both in film (the 1981 De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?) and in theater: Gogol's The Government Inspector at Bulandra, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Nottara Theater. Liviu Ciulei hired him at Bulandra in 1972, and he remained there for a decade, before moving on to Nottara. At Bulandra, he appeared in Twelfth Night and The Tempest, both under Ciulei's direction; and in Marin Sorescu's Răceala, directed by Dan Micu. At Nottara, he appeared in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest; Ultimul bal, after Liviu Rebreanu's Forest of the Hanged; and Mihai Ispirescu's Într-o dimineață. He became the director of Nottara Theater in 2004, working as such until his resignation in 2011.

Movies for Mircea Diaconu...

To Paris with the Identity Card
Title: To Paris with the Identity Card
Character: Drăgan Niță
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei every day.
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In-laws
Title: In-laws
Character: Ştefan Vrânceanu
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Ionut and Mariana will get married soon. It's time to meet their families and to plot the happy event. In-laws seem to understand perfectly: passion for TV series unites luxury, Romanian music of the '80s and brandy. Especially brandy. As the bottles are emptied, misunderstandings begin to appear. Three couples, three visions on marriage: fast and opulence (with white doves and Holograf Fuego), traditional wedding (with musicians and tent), or a youthful? Different options, different camps. No one fails. Moreover, the two parents-in-law remember that they met once, 25 years ago. They were in different camps. Now that miraculously brought back to life to face. Follow great challenge. It takes a miracle that this wedding is to be held.
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A Love Story, Lindenfeld
Title: A Love Story, Lindenfeld
Released: June 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Klaus Bernath, a wealthy German citizen, decides, after many years, to visit his birthplace, of the Banat Swabian village Lindenfeld, in Romania. Since the village has been deserted for many decades, his son and his biographer decide to reconstruct the whole space from scratch and present it as a populated place.
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Poker
Title: Poker
Character: Calabrezu
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu's name stands for "prolific, highly commercial and professional". At the age of 80, the director launched his latest production, which is also his second comedy in a long row of action and historic films. "Poker" is a cinema adaptation of Adrian Lustig's theatre play with the same name, and focuses on four male friends, representatives for the social canvas: a doctor without a moral conscience, an unscrupulous politician, a chief of the local mafia, and a businessman who made a fortune in America. Made by MediaPro Pictures, 'Poker' looks at immorality and intrigues in politics, hinting at the fact that contemporary Romania is a day to day jungle where strings are pulled by those in power, so everything turns into a poker round, where those who have the right aces in their sleeve can win.
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Kino Caravan
Title: Kino Caravan
Character: Tanasie
Released: July 22, 2009
Type: Movie
On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a small village with film and a projector in their car. No one from the village comes to meet them. What happened? Who are they? The not knowing relays no small amount of interest at times through tension as in a horror movie, and at times through compassionate laughter.
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One-Day Adventures
Title: One-Day Adventures
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Vlad is a famous actor in Bucharest, married to Alina, who has always been tempted to have extra-conjugal relations.
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Ticăloșii
Title: Ticăloșii
Character: Mircea Prejbeanu
Released: March 15, 2007
Type: Movie
All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.
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Tache
Title: Tache
Character: Tache
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Tacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a glamorous funeral service in the cemetery's « downtown » area, where he had spotted for a long time an splendidly situated burial site. Everything goes smoothly, especially that the town's luxury funeral home has just acquired Lady Di's hearth. Tacke has some money for the funeral ceremony, he also has some friends who would mourn for him, but he is out of luck: the funeral site he was hoping to acquire was just given to somebody else.
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Happy End
Title: Happy End
Released: December 1, 2006
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: Grigore Matei
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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Love Sick
Title: Love Sick
Character: Mr. Dragnea
Released: March 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories.
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Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
Title: Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Collection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made.
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Philanthropy
Title: Philanthropy
Character: Ovidiu Gorea
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob.
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The Firemen's Choir
Title: The Firemen's Choir
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Title: Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Character: Titi
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.
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Asphalt Tango
Title: Asphalt Tango
Character: Andrei
Released: November 13, 1996
Type: Movie
A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
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Dănilă Prepeleac
Title: Dănilă Prepeleac
Character: Dănilă Prepeleac
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.
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The Telephone
Title: The Telephone
Character: Radu
Released: August 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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Reach for the Sky
Title: Reach for the Sky
Character: Mircea
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A story about young gymnasts in Romania.
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Happenings with Alexandra
Title: Happenings with Alexandra
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Secret of the Secret Weapon
Title: The Secret of the Secret Weapon
Character: Zmeul Zmeilor
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them. She favors a peaceful knight, while her father and his advisors like the ones carrying around a lot of weapons.
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Flames Over Treasures
Title: Flames Over Treasures
Character: Barkeeper
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Deep in the Transylvanian Alps, the Archangels gold mine is the stage for an epic battle of characters. The arrogant owner is struggling with perceptions of ghosts in the mind of the miners. A maverick free-lance miner is helping him to find the source of terrifying noises that frightened his workers.
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O vară cu Mara
Title: O vară cu Mara
Character: Ilieș Calancea
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Six carpenters from Maramureș go to a village in Bărăgan to build some stables. These are the head of the family, 4 brothers and their sister, Mara. Her beauty attracts local suitors.
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Starting Over
Title: Starting Over
Character: Mircea
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Drama directed by Visarion Alexa.
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A Smile Of The Sun
Title: A Smile Of The Sun
Character: Împăratul
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Several students spend their last days of high school in a cheerful and musical atmosphere. Petrica and 'Sunny Smile', who has become a fairy tale princess in the meantime, find their way back to each other, from the real world to the dream one and the other way around, in order to meet their love halfway between the two realms.
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Repeated Wedding
Title: Repeated Wedding
Character: Radu Petrescu
Released: October 28, 1985
Type: Movie
This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie.
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Promisses
Title: Promisses
Character: Petruș
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
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Horea
Title: Horea
Character: Candrea Alexa Kendy
Released: November 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.
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O lumină la etajul zece
Title: O lumină la etajul zece
Character: zidarul Trică
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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Un petic de cer
Title: Un petic de cer
Character: Ion Panait
Released: January 23, 1984
Type: Movie
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Căruța cu mere
Title: Căruța cu mere
Character: Garofiță
Released: October 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists.
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Sequences
Title: Sequences
Character: motel keeper
Released: November 29, 1982
Type: Movie
Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
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Waiting for a Train
Title: Waiting for a Train
Character: Zarzalin
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
After Romania changed alliances in August 23rd, 1944, a group of soldiers have the mission to stop a military train.
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The End of the Night
Title: The End of the Night
Character: Prosecutor Matei
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man.
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The Computer Testifies
Title: The Computer Testifies
Character: V. Vișan
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim.
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Bucharest Identity Card
Title: Bucharest Identity Card
Character: Radu Petrescu
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...
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Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
Title: Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
Character: Iordache
Released: September 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.
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The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
Title: The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
Character: Romulus Brad
Released: January 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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The Sign of the Serpent
Title: The Sign of the Serpent
Character: Flondor
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.
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Fox Hunting
Title: Fox Hunting
Character: Pătru cel scurt
Released: December 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A Romanian village in the 50s. Năiţă Lucean, a cunning and stubborn peasant, opposes the collectivization process using all possible artifice. He instinctively feels that signing his land and cattle over to the state can only bring bad times for him. His only certainty is the ownership of this insufficient and barren plot of land. Although he strongly opposes it, the idea of the collective good is forcibly enforced.
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The House Between the Fields
Title: The House Between the Fields
Character: Ilarie
Released: October 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Fresh out of university, agricultural engineer Voica Teodorescu returns to her native village where she joins a local team of engineers in the planning of a dam and an irrigation mega project.Although Voica is engaged to be married to Ilarie she also is romantically attracted to local engineer Radu. Radu doesn't agree with local boss Vasile Axente's management style and deems Vasile incompetent.Therefore, Radu tries to form an alliance with the village vice-mayor Dumitru Vardaru but when a large sum of money from the public works budget goes missing Radu is investigated by authorities for embezzlement of public funds.His relationship with Voica and the villagers gets sourly tested.
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Poor Ioanide
Title: Poor Ioanide
Character: milițian
Released: April 28, 1980
Type: Movie
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Tragic Vacation
Title: Tragic Vacation
Character: Sandu
Released: May 21, 1979
Type: Movie
During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.
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The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Title: The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Character: Romulus Brad
Released: December 22, 1978
Type: Movie
The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank.
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Together Again
Title: Together Again
Character: Bănuță
Released: December 11, 1978
Type: Movie
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.
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Before the Silence
Title: Before the Silence
Character: Pvt. Dumitru
Released: October 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"
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The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
Title: The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
Character: Romulus Brad
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: Movie
Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.
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Operation 'The Bus'
Title: Operation 'The Bus'
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: Sgt. Marin Văduva
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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A Lost Letter
Title: A Lost Letter
Character: Iordache Branzovenescu
Released: June 7, 1977
Type: Movie
The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess...
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Oil
Title: Oil
Character: Grigore
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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A Summer Tale
Title: A Summer Tale
Released: October 25, 1976
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
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Red Apples
Title: Red Apples
Character: Dr. Irod
Released: January 8, 1976
Type: Movie
In Alexandru Tatos’s debut film, a young urologist is assigned to a town hospital with no urology ward and keeps bumping up against his superiors because of both ethical and medical problems.
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Filip the Kind
Title: Filip the Kind
Character: absolventul de liceu Filip
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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The Actor and the Savages
Title: The Actor and the Savages
Character: Radu Toma
Released: January 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Oarca
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: Movie
After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.
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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 Stone Wedding
Title: The Stone Wedding
Character: dezertorul
Released: January 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
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Farewell, Dear Nela!
Title: Farewell, Dear Nela!
Character: Bibi
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.