Ștefan Ciubotărașu

The War of the Princesses (1970)

Lured by the treasure of Moldavia and supplies, Sobieski, king of the Poles, orders the attack on the fortress of Neamț, and Captain Ghinda organizes the betrayal. In view of the overwhelming majority of the lezs, they send the young Ioana to the king, bu ...

Then the Legend was Born (1969)

Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle. ...

The Column (1968)

The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia. ...

Underneath the Surface (1967)

A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame. ...

The Mornings of a Sensible Youth (1967)

After graduating from high school and failing the university entrance exam, young Vive leaves his parents' home in order to find his own way in life and assert his independence. ...

Golgotha (1966)

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not ...

You Look Wild (1965)

The Soimaresti Clan (1965)

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612. ...

Forest of the Hanged (1965)

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines. ...

The Stranger (1964)

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. ...

Memories of My Childhood (1964)

Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood. ...

Your Part of the Blame (1963)

This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career ...

At the Age of Love (1963)

Mihai is expelled from college and sentenced to prison for a DUI accident. ...

Cerul n-are gratii (1963)

Based on the novel "The Artist" by Francisca Munteanu. Romania in the 30s. A young talented artist Mihai Strihan, a student at the Academy of Painting, sees how fascism is poisoning the social life of the country. But Mihai does not want to get involved in ...

Lupeni 29 (1963)

Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher wages and an eight-hour workday. They opposed the gover ...

The Man Next to You (1962)

A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she sacrifices her career to follow him to a big project away. ...

Celebrul 702 (1962)

In the imaginary country of "Allergica", a group of gangsters have made a fat hit by pinning the blame on the Kid, who awaits execution in the terrible "Bing-Bing" prison. At the last moment the electric chair is unplugged because the lawyer has persuaded ...

Porto-Franco (1961)

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America. ...

Mîndrie (1961)

The film centers on the story of two young specialists Andrei and Liviu, their different attitudes to work, to their authority and to friendship. ...

A World Wihout Sky (1961)

A movie about miner strikes in 1292 Jiu Valley. It is made from re-cutting and combining two previous movies, "Lupeni '29" and "Golgota", that were shot much earlier. ...

The Thirst (1960)

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform. ...

The Storm (1960)

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. ...

The Waves of the Danube (1960)

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 th ...

Telegrams (1960)

Geared more for the home crowd with a good knowledge of their own history, this Romanian political comedy takes place at the turn of the 20th century, when two opposing factions are going at each other tooth and nail to win an election. One candidate is a ...

The Avalanche (1959)

The story of the rescue of workers trapped in a snow avalanche in a remote mountain cabin. ...

O mica întîmplare (1957)

An obliging and resourceful peasant made a woodworking machine out of scrap metal bought for two ducks, unaware of the dangers that would await him at every turn. Having become an unwitting swindler, he had to go with the proper documents through many inst ...

Bird of the Storm (1957)

Adam, a young and poor fisherman, falls in love with Uliana, but the girl's parents want her to marry Simion. To get rid of him, Simion blames Adam of the drowning of his fellow fishermen he was with out in a storm. ...

Eruption (1957)

The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby. ...

Desfasurarea (1955)

Based on the story of the same name by Marin Preda. The movie tells about the struggle of poor peasants against the rural rich for the creation of collective farming. ...