Ernest Maftei

Păcală se întoarce (2006)

Păcală, a young man without too many expectations from life, is tired of wandering around the world and driven by the longing for his parental home he decides to return to his homeland, from somewhere "outside" - a timeless space located outside the bord ...

Dănilă Prepeleac (1996)

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 the sta ...

The Stone Cross (1994)

Andrei Blaier's film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of Bucharest before the Communist period, doomed to destruction under the new rules of proletarian morals that ...

America Abracadabra (1993)

A group of young Egyptians are planning to immigrate to the United States from Bucharest. But, when the man they hired steals their money and leave them on the Hungarian border, they are forced to work together to overcome adversity. ...

The Toothless War (1992)

An old man and an old woman each have a girl. Influenced by old woaman, the old man compared to banish their home, and it goes in the world. Because of its virtues, she will gain from Holy Friday a box full of riches. Jealous, old woman's daughter and she ...

The Moment of Truth (1989)

An epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia. ...

The Miracle (1988)

An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania. ...

Bătălia din umbră (1986)

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

The Gold Diggers (1986)

Old man John Tarwater and young lawyer Elam Harnish, gripped by the "gold fever" leave for Alaska, embarking on the adventure of a new hard and torturous life, which, due to famine, John Tarwater falls victim to. ...

Repeated Wedding (1985)

Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond. ...

I Hope to See You Again (1985)

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an old mill. ...

The Cherry Blossoms (1984)

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. ...

Mușchetarii în vacanță (1984)

Three children each plan to bring an extraordinary event from their vacation. Their adventures are not necessarily extraordinary, but the children have something to learn from them and they will be left with fond memories. ...

The Migrant Birds Are Coming (1984)

In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise... ...

Mireasma ploilor târzii (1984)

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 their fi ...

Im Wald der Feen (1981)

The Convoy (1981)

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted escape during their forced transfer to another penitentiary. ...

Burebista (1980)

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast. ...

The Bone Srewn Road (1980)

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities. ...

Last Night of Love (1980)

In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding officer, Captain ...

The Enchanted Grove (1980)

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile w ...

Michael, the Dog That Sang (1979)

The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here he was picked up by the steward of the schooner McCambo, Dag Daughtry. Dag decided to sell the purebred dog at the nearest port, secretly brought Michael o ...

Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula (1979)

Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court. ...

The Threshold (1979)

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

Uncertain Roads (1979)

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges. ...

The Green Grass of Home (1977)

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. ...

The Mace with Three Seals (1977)

At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities. ...

For Motherland (1977)

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. ...

Accident (1977)

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 ...

Fair-Play (1977)

Grandpa and Two Young Offenders (1976)

A police officer is investigating the disappearance of a colleague's young boy. His key seems to be the "dark skinned" friend of the boy about whom nobody cares, including the police. ...

The Punishment (1976)

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. ...

Red Apples (1976)

In Alexandru Tatos's debut film, a young urologist is assigned to a town hospital with no urology ward and keeps bumping up against his superiors because of both ethical and medical problems. ...

Through the Ashes of the Empire (1976)

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empi ...

Hot Days (1976)

In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the casting repeatedly breaks and deadlines loom, he must overcom ...

Herodot's Mystery (1976)

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman settlement Lisidava. They are trying to locate it. ...

Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 (1975)

In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome. ...

Lust for Gold (1974)

The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness. ...

The Martens Brothers (1974)

Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. Ionut is the youngest son of Commissar Jder, a trusted man of Stephen the Great. He falls in love with Nasta, the daughter of a boyar, and competes for her affections wit ...

Beyond the Sands (1974)

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 execution ...

The Snowstorm (1973)

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s. ...

A Certain Kind of Happiness (1973)

A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life. ...

Long Way to Tipperary (1973)

The movie is about the historic moment in which the PNȚ political party has attempted to form a government in exile to counteract the Petru Groza Russian puppet government. Obviously this is seen through the lenses of communist propaganda. ...

The Conspiracy (1973)

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

The Last Bullet (1973)

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, Commissioner Roman wants to see his murderer, a very powe ...

The Lost Forest (1972)

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. ...

The Power and The Truth (1972)

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

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)

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 threate ...

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 ...

Too Little for Such a Big War (1970)

Inspired by true events, an orphaned boy raised by the regiment goes to the front in search of his best friend and faces terrifying experiences. ...

Silent Friends (1969)

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

The Axe (1969)

Vitoria, a strong-willed peasant woman from the mountains, sets out on a relentless journey to find out what happened to her husband, the shepherd Nechifor, who disappeared without a trace after leaving to buy sheep. ...

The Revenge of the Outlaws (1968)

Second 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 the ...

The Kidnapping of the Maidens (1968)

In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them. ...

The Castellans (1967)

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 monument, ...

The Uprising (1966)

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 are ...

The Outlaws (1966)

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 thei ...

Meanders (1966)

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination, is very creative and daring, the latter is looking only for personal comfort and material satisfaction. They ...

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. ...

Merriment Ward (1964)

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement. ...

Tudor (1963)

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. ...

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. ...

Streets Have Memories (1962)

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. ...

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 Secret Code (1960)

It is 1944, german troops are in retreat. These troops were using a communication station and a cypher. The mission is to acquire the cypher... ...

The Thistles of The Bărăgan (1958)

The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan, in reference to a band of beleaguered feudal Rumanian peasants. But these are no fools: instead, they are fearless freedom fighters, organizing a brave (though foredoomed) revolt against the tyranny of the landow ...

Family Jewels (1958)

A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907. ...

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. ...