Movies: Ernest Maftei

Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies....

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This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks....

After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years....

Paul Vasiliu, a geologist, returns to his native village. Excavating for irrigation works gives him the opportunity to discover some valuable minerals. Now he has to convince the villagers to postpone theirs lifelong dream of having irrigations in th...

Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his exe...

On New Years Eve, in an isolated mountain chalet, two robbers seek refuge, together with two lost tourists....

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 t...

In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on....

During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power....

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural mon...

A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troop as they march to join the Russians in fighting the Nazis. He watches as one of his friends dies af...

In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group....

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania....

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The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station....

Two dogs and a duck are saving a family....

First part of a series of five famous children novels. Adventures of a group of kids in a trip to explore a cave, where they have some surprises....

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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....