Irina Petrescu

Irina Petrescu

Born: June 19, 1941
Died: March 19, 2013
in Bucureşti, Romania

Movies for Irina Petrescu...

The Human Resources Manager
Title: The Human Resources Manager
Character: Grandmother
Released: December 15, 2010
Type: Movie
A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
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Luxury Hotel
Title: Luxury Hotel
Released: April 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.
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Miss Christina
Title: Miss Christina
Character: Mrs. Moscu
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Christina's ghost haunts the mansion where she was born.
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives
Title: Those Who Pay with Their Lives
Character: Irena
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: Movie
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.
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Fourth Fence, by the Wharf
Title: Fourth Fence, by the Wharf
Released: April 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Mișu and Mitică are two best friends. Everything changes when Cornelia shows up.
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O lumină la etajul zece
Title: O lumină la etajul zece
Character: inginera Maria Dinu
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Impossible Love
Title: The Impossible Love
Character: Sorana
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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The Carpathian Castle
Title: The Carpathian Castle
Character: Dora D'Istria
Released: March 23, 1981
Type: Movie
In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
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Operation 'The Bus'
Title: Operation 'The Bus'
Character: Dominique Franga
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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Three Days and Three Nights
Title: Three Days and Three Nights
Character: Hermina
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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Beyond the Bridge
Title: Beyond the Bridge
Character: Sister Aegidia
Released: February 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Mara, a hard-working widow woman brings up his two children in a developing idustrial Transylvanian town.
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Seven Days
Title: Seven Days
Character: Lena
Released: September 24, 1973
Type: Movie
This movie presents 7 days of a secret agent's life. Unlike most other movies that glamorize secret agents, this one shows the routine, nitty gritty work.
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Stejar, extremă urgență
Title: Stejar, extremă urgență
Character: Corina
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Making of the World
Title: The Making of the World
Character: Eva Filipache
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Around the nationalization in 1948, a worker's daughter, as a student, is attracted by the social life offered by a breed horse owner. The relationship will sour by the cruelty with which he kills the horses, rather then give them away.
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A Woman for a Season
Title: A Woman for a Season
Character: Ana
Released: August 21, 1969
Type: Movie
The film presents the drama of a proud man, full of himself, proud of his physical and intellectual qualities. Palaloga, whose life had been an uninterrupted succession of gallant, professional and spiritual successes, finds out at one point that he is seriously ill and is approaching death. In full dying delirium, almost like a confession, he realizes that his life until then was just an empty lie, in which he never lived something true, pure and beautiful and asks an imaginary Mephistopheles to give him another month of life, because in the meantime to achieve something great to stay after him…
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Chief of the Souls Sector
Title: Chief of the Souls Sector
Character: Magdalena
Released: June 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena.
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The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Title: The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Character: Mariana
Released: January 16, 1967
Type: Movie
A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
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The White Moor
Title: The White Moor
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Adapted from a folk legend, it tells the story of a bad-tempered nobleman and his chronically useless younger son - who dreams of being the mythical hero Harap Alb.
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Story of My Foolishness
Title: Story of My Foolishness
Character: Jacqueline
Released: June 6, 1965
Type: Movie
The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
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Sunday at Six
Title: Sunday at Six
Character: Anca
Released: March 16, 1965
Type: Movie
Romania, 1940. A boy meets a girl. They fall in love without suspecting anything about their real identities. They chose an eventful, tense and dangerous life as underground anti-fascists fighters. The significance of their activity is manifest in the consequences it has on the tormented progress of their love. Reality is against it. Two parallel lines which meet for a second, only to drift apart for ever.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Sonia
Released: October 8, 1964
Type: Movie
The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.
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Poveste sentimentala
Title: Poveste sentimentala
Character: Neli
Released: May 28, 1962
Type: Movie
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I Don't Want to Get Married
Title: I Don't Want to Get Married
Character: Rodica Barbu
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Waves of the Danube
Title: The Waves of the Danube
Character: Ana
Released: May 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Ciulei’s second feature recalls the best of Fritz Lang and Michael Curtiz in its WWII-era espionage tale, set on a barge transporting Nazi munitions up the Danube. Ciulei himself givers a superb performance as Mihai, the barge captain forced to navigate the heavily mined waters along with his new bride, Ana (Irina Petrescu). As the journey wears on, Mihai becomes increasingly suspicious of one of his crew, ex-convict Toma (Lazar Vrabie), and his intentions towards Ana. But Toma has a far graver—and potentially deadly—secret to conceal.