Amza Pellea

Amza Pellea

Born: April 7, 1931
Died: December 12, 1983
in Băileşti, Dolj, Romania

Movies for Amza Pellea...

Golden Moments - Amza Pellea
Title: Golden Moments - Amza Pellea
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Collection of some of the best clips, Amza has made.
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The Impossible Love
Title: The Impossible Love
Character: Dan
Released: March 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by the engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".
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Un petic de cer
Title: Un petic de cer
Character: Ministrul
Released: January 23, 1984
Type: Movie
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William the Conqueror
Title: William the Conqueror
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: Movie
William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III
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Sfântul Mitică Blajinul
Title: Sfântul Mitică Blajinul
Character: Ion Cristea
Released: July 12, 1982
Type: Movie
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Mercenaries' Trap
Title: Mercenaries' Trap
Character: Frank
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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Stay with You
Title: Stay with You
Character: Alecu
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.
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Ana and the Thief
Title: Ana and the Thief
Character: Crijan
Released: September 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.
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Title: "Concordia" Team
Character: Gl. Matei
Released: April 27, 1981
Type: Movie
A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Colonel
Released: February 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
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The House Between the Fields
Title: The House Between the Fields
Character: Vasile Axente
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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Gently Was Anastasia Passing
Title: Gently Was Anastasia Passing
Character: Costaiche
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill a Serbian, and throw his body into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it. Anastasia refuses to obey the order…
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Michael, the Dog That Sang
Title: Michael, the Dog That Sang
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Thing in the Castle
Title: The Thing in the Castle
Character: Wenzel
Released: July 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth.
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Arms of Afrodite
Title: Arms of Afrodite
Character: Marin
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: Nea Mărin / Mr. Juvett
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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Ecaterina Teodoroiu
Title: Ecaterina Teodoroiu
Character: Gral. Dragalina
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Pârvu
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: Nea Marin
Released: July 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Hussy
Title: The Hussy
Character: Yakata
Released: May 6, 1978
Type: Movie
An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.
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Shootings Under the Moonlight
Title: Shootings Under the Moonlight
Character: Badea Aron
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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For Motherland
Title: For Motherland
Character: General Alexandru Cernat
Released: May 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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Accident
Title: Accident
Character: Colonel de Militie
Released: January 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.
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The Punishment
Title: The Punishment
Character: țăranul Manolache Preda
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 Light on the Gallows
Title: The Light on the Gallows
Character: Debuisson
Released: May 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the island very well, his old friend Sasportas, and the sailor Galloudec. After having established contact with the fragmented rebel groups, they receive the surprising news of Napoleon′s takeover in France. Whereas Debuisson, who by now has gotten used to his role as a rich heir, wants to wait for new instructions from home, his companions are determined to press ahead with the revolt. When a slave kills a British guard, the situation escalates.
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Three Days and Three Nights
Title: Three Days and Three Nights
Character: Grigorescu
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
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The Romanian Musketeer
Title: The Romanian Musketeer
Character: The Sultan Ahmed
Released: October 13, 1975
Type: Movie
During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder.
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Cantemir
Title: Cantemir
Character: Sultanul Ahmed
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empire" and the jewels of the ruler's wife.
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Sunday Father
Title: Sunday Father
Character: inginerul automecanic Mircea Danu
Released: April 28, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Mock Doctor
Title: The Mock Doctor
Released: February 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Sganarelle, mistakenly considered a famous doctor because of a prank, is brought in M. Geronte's house to cure his daughter, who went mute overnight.
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Cadavrul viu
Title: Cadavrul viu
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Immortals
Title: The Immortals
Character: Dumitru
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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Ulzana
Title: Ulzana
Character: General Crook
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 Police Inspector Calls
Title: A Police Inspector Calls
Character: Ion Pîrvu
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 Blue Gates of the City
Title: The Blue Gates of the City
Character: Col. Cristescu
Released: March 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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Captain's Ion Arrow
Title: Captain's Ion Arrow
Character: Ali Beg
Released: September 20, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Handsome.
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Babusca's Adventures
Title: Babusca's Adventures
Character: One-eye
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
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The Last Bullet
Title: The Last Bullet
Character: fratele lui Semaca
Released: May 26, 1973
Type: Movie
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).
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Ciprian Porumbescu
Title: Ciprian Porumbescu
Character: profesorul Carol Miculi
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.
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Stejar, extremă urgență
Title: Stejar, extremă urgență
Character: Toma
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Power and The Truth
Title: The Power and The Truth
Character: Petre Petrescu
Released: February 15, 1972
Type: Movie
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Title: Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Character: Ipu
Released: January 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
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Michael the Brave
Title: Michael the Brave
Character: Mihai Viteazul
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
Character: Ștefan
Released: July 10, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Column
Title: The Column
Character: regele dac Decebal
Released: October 18, 1968
Type: Movie
The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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The Dacians
Title: The Dacians
Character: Decebal
Released: May 31, 1967
Type: Movie
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
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The Uprising
Title: The Uprising
Character: Comandantul trupelor
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
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The Outlaws
Title: The Outlaws
Character: Sârbu
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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Camera alba
Title: Camera alba
Character: Simion
Released: December 29, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Soimaresti Clan
Title: The Soimaresti Clan
Character: Simion Bârnovă
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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Pisica de mare
Title: Pisica de mare
Released: January 6, 1964
Type: Movie
The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.
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Tudor
Title: Tudor
Character: Gîrbea fiul
Released: November 18, 1963
Type: Movie
Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians.
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Celebrul 702
Title: Celebrul 702
Released: October 22, 1962
Type: Movie
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Darclée
Title: Darclée
Released: November 29, 1960
Type: Movie
In this undistinguished drama, Darclee (Silvia Popovici) is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want. Matei Jacob directs.
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The Thirst
Title: The Thirst
Character: Adam Adam
Released: October 20, 1960
Type: Movie
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
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Alarm in the Mountains
Title: Alarm in the Mountains
Released: December 22, 1955
Type: Movie
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Blanca
Title: Blanca
Character: Craiul
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Adaptation after Fat Frumos din tei by Mihai Eminescu