Horațiu Mălăele

Horațiu Mălăele

Born: August 1, 1952
in Târgu-Jiu, Gorj, Romania
Horațiu-Valentin Mălăele (born 1 August 1952) is a Romanian actor, cartoonist, writer, and theater and film director. In this last capacity his is often associated with the Romanian New Wave.

Born in 1952 Târgu-Jiu, he had a public art exhibit in his final year of secondary school, the first of over 30 as of 2016.

Mălăele graduated in 1975 from the Institute of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest and first became a professional actor with the National Theater of Romania in Piatra Neamț. He returned to Bucharest, where he became a prominent actor, working in many of Romania's leading theaters including Nottara, Odeon, and Bulandra. He then became a director, directing such plays as O sărbătoare princiară ("A Princely Feast") by Theodor Mazilu (1982 at Nottara Theatre), A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau (1993 at Nottara Theatre), and Carlo contra Carlo ("Carlo against Carlo") by Paul Ioachim (1994 at the Odeon), which won him that year's Romanian Comedy Festival Prize. He has since directed over a dozen other stage productions.

He first appeared as a film actor in 1974, appearing in two films that year: Păcală ("Caution") and Muntele Ascuns ("The Hidden Mountain", and has gone on to act in over two dozen other films. He also directed Palaria ("The Hat", 2004, TV movie), Nunta mută ("Silent Wedding", 2008) and Funeralii fericite ("Happy Funerals", 2013).

He has also written two books: the autobiographical Horaţiu despre Mălăele ("Horatiu about Malaele", ISBN 9731812172, and Wanderings, a collection of short episodes, aphorisms, and memories.

Movies for Horațiu Mălăele...

Luca
Title: Luca
Character: regizor
Released: November 13, 2020
Type: Movie
He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.
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Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time
Title: Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time
Character: Ilie Moromete
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A sequel to Moromeții (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with Romania being overpowered by Communism.
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Happy Funerals
Title: Happy Funerals
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian - are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at "The Happy Immigrant", a joint kept by a Turk. The fauna of this venue is made up out of the Babel Tower's survivors: immigrants who had chosen Romania, as a country where everything is possible. The predictions included... A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. The three professional boozers stop from running just in front of a fortune teller expert in a niche field: death prediction. The rest is entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. They don't want to die when it was written for them. Or just predicted...
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Somewhere in Palilula
Title: Somewhere in Palilula
Character: Postman
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.
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Title: Las Fierbinţi
Character: Mos Peleus
Released: March 1, 2012
Type: TV
A rural comedy where the intrigues caused by the upcoming elections in a small village give rise to a ridiculous war between the mayor and deputy mayor. Unfortunately, they have no clue that their struggle will prove to be in vain at the end of the election day.
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Ultimul Corupt din Romania
Title: Ultimul Corupt din Romania
Character: Titel Pangica
Released: February 17, 2012
Type: Movie
The latest film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, 'The last corrupt in Romania,' is Nicolaescu's first movie after 'Poker,' which became a great box-office success in Romania. The recent film continues the events of 'Poker,' with a cast that brings together many popular Romanian actors - Horatiu Malaele, Vladimir Gaitan, Valentin Teodosiu, Ion Ritiu, Catalina Grama (Jojo) and Mircea Diaconu – who embody the same main characters as in Poker
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Les Amants naufragés
Title: Les Amants naufragés
Character: Liviu Ionescu
Released: June 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Stan Mirkine would have everything to be happy. Now, he is sure of it: his wife is cheating on him. Too much in love, possessive to the extreme, he is haunted every day by the only fear of discovering that Mathilde is unfaithful. Day after day, week after week, suspicions precipitate Stan in an infernal spiral driven by jealousy. The existence of Mathilde and Stan rocking after an irreparable act: Stan kills the one he thinks is his rival. Soon, doubt settles, jealousy resurfaced. What if Stan was abused by his paranoia? Could it be that his jealousy is only the result of a mad scheme? Who would then draw the strings? ...
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Poker
Title: Poker
Character: Titel
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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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: Pompi
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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Family Album
Title: Family Album
Character: Horațiu
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to lower the financial deficit of his company. As the elections draw closer, attention is focused on the suspicions which arose shortly after Moraru stepped into the life of politics, regarding some financial misconducts. Moraru has to resist the siege, lead by two of his former friends and associates, who are trying to take advantage of the situation and remove him from his leading position in the company. This is yet another battle for Moraru, who sticks to his principles, even though they had cost him his family.
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Damen tango
Title: Damen tango
Character: Mircea
Released: May 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Nothing seems to threaten the quiet and happy life of Alexandra and Mircea, a couple who's both admired and envied: love, successful careers, and wealth. And nothing seems to ever threaten the very special relation between a renowned university teacher and one her most gifted student, Alexandra and Corina: two women, two friends who, against the age gap, share the same goals, the same interests. Even the same love interests. Until one day, when the sensibility is stronger than the reason. And all of a sudden, everything that seemed certain, such as friendship, loyalty, love and devotion, turns into a terrible hate.
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Maria
Title: Maria
Character: Milco
Released: November 21, 2003
Type: Movie
When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.
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Ambassadors Seek Country
Title: Ambassadors Seek Country
Character: Titi
Released: November 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Titi and Marius, two friends who fought together during the revolution of 1989, follow very different social and political paths in its aftermath.
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Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth
Title: Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth
Released: October 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30
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The Wackos
Title: The Wackos
Character: Pépé
Released: July 31, 2002
Type: Movie
When his credit card has just been swallowed by distributor Bruno Lussac, State Inspector Débé crosses the limits of home ethics when he learns that he has just been banned from banking. Disguised as a Southerner for a costume party where he was supposed to arrest drug dealers, he lures his colleagues into robbing a bank; he causes a bloodbath but comes out victorious of this heist. For his accomplices, the informant, and pretty peacekeeper Cécile Barko, known as Cyborg, this is the start of a crazy run.
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Amen.
Title: Amen.
Character: Fritsche
Released: February 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
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Noro
Title: Noro
Released: February 15, 2002
Type: Movie
A compassionate fiction-documentary about an intelligent but handicapped boy who struggles to stand up against an overprotective father and find his place in the world.
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Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Title: Fii cu ochii pe fericire
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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Mincinosul
Title: Mincinosul
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The son of Pantalone, the honest Venetian merchant, Lelio Bisognosi, the liar, is a brilliant young man wandering the world. For twenty years he lived with an uncle in Naples, then returned to his native city with his servant Arlecchino. Here, he has the opportunity to meet Dr. Balanzoni's daughters, Rosaura and Beatrice, while, in the absence of their father, they enjoy being serenaded by an unknown admirer on the terrace of the house. The author of the serenade is Florindo, a student and tenant of the doctor, who shyly loves Rosaura, not daring to reveal his feelings. Lelio does not miss the opportunity: he introduces himself to the girls in the guise of a rich marquis and claims that he is the author of the serenade, without revealing which of the two he is in love with. But for the sake of the art of "spiritual inventions", Lelio delights in describing himself in various lies, not without undesirable consequences...
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Fed Up
Title: Fed Up
Character: Bebe
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still alive. Wishing to save its life, the doctor puts the mother on artificial life support. Just then, Bebe, the supposed father of the unborn child, enters the scene. A former teacher and mountain climber, Bebe will soon fall in love with the doctor...
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Divorț... din dragoste
Title: Divorț... din dragoste
Character: matematicianul Dan Cantemir
Released: April 5, 1992
Type: Movie
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Casa din vis
Title: Casa din vis
Character: Babalete
Released: January 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu.
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Miss Litoral
Title: Miss Litoral
Character: maestrul Mugurel, președintele juriului
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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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Dinu Carp
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.
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The Secret of the Secret Weapon
Title: The Secret of the Secret Weapon
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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Secretul lui Nemesis
Title: Secretul lui Nemesis
Character: Tudor
Released: November 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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Spring of the Goslings
Title: Spring of the Goslings
Character: studentul Ionuț, fiul Varvarei și a lui Toderaș
Released: April 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Following the intervention of his mother, Barbara ( Tamara Buciuceanu-baptism ), the young Ionut ( Horatiu ), a graduate student at the Faculty of Agronomy, is assigned to perform summer practice Viişoara village. His parents, Barbara and Toderaş ( Dem Radulescu ) waits at the train station in Pogoanele fanfare announced the day of arrival, but the young man down from Mocăniţă the previous station and walk over the hills, through the Aries River and through the woods. He enters the village astride the colt Valjean, causing laughter villagers and shame to his mother.
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Acțiunea Zuzuc
Title: Acțiunea Zuzuc
Character: Busolă
Released: April 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Story of a boy that disappears and the militia officer that investigates the case.
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The Kid
Title: The Kid
Character: Panaitescu
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A metaphor film, in which a group a pupils are going out on a trip. There are various happenings in which adults are interpreting in different ways and give different meanings to everything.
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The Secret of Bacchus
Title: The Secret of Bacchus
Character: Nelu
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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Melodii la Costinesti
Title: Melodii la Costinesti
Released: November 7, 1983
Type: Movie
The film describes the journeys through which the members of a light music band pass in their attempt to be selected for the Costinesti Labor Festival.
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Mad Forest
Title: Mad Forest
Character: Filipache
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A young communist returns to a small provincial town.
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Romantic Destinies
Title: Romantic Destinies
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.
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Hazelnut Chocolate
Title: Hazelnut Chocolate
Character: Victor Alexe
Released: April 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.
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Ora zero
Title: Ora zero
Character: Titișor Căruntu
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI.
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Alone Amongst Friends
Title: Alone Amongst Friends
Character: Robert
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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September
Title: September
Character: The camel
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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Gloria nu cîntă
Title: Gloria nu cîntă
Character: Matei
Released: May 16, 1977
Type: Movie
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For Motherland
Title: For Motherland
Character: Lieutenant Hartell
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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Happiness Is So Close
Title: Happiness Is So Close
Character: Mihai
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.
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Hidden Mountain
Title: Hidden Mountain
Character: Petru
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family.
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The Moromete Family 3
Title: The Moromete Family 3
Character: Ilie Moromete
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion.