Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic

Expresul de Buftea (1978)

Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - the conversations of cinephile travelers on their way to the film studios in Buftea - account for about 40% ...

The Nameless Star (1966)

The tranquility of a Romanian village is shattered by the arrival of a beautiful unknown coinciding with the discovery of a new star by a modest professor of astronomy ... ...

Mofturi 1900 (1966)

Mofturi 1900 is a 1964 Romanian comedic film directed by Jean Georgescu and based on Ion Luca Caragiale's many Moments and Sketches. The sketches used are "Diplomatie" ("Diplomacy"), "Amicii" ("Pals"), "O lacuna" ("A gap"), "Bubico", "C.F.R." (abbreviation ...

The Teacher's Correspondence (1966)

A subpoena on perception turns the life of a teacher upside down when he finds himself taxed for what he never even had: two buffalo. Because of the aberrant bureaucracy, he can't even get rid of the fictitious cuckolds... ...

Doi Băieți ca Pâinea Caldă (1965)

Two awarded bakers try to make out with girls by lying about their profession, but when they pretend to be doctors they get caught. ...

Titanic Waltz (1965)

Based on a comedy play by Romanian playwright Tudor Mușatescu and first performed in 1932, Titanic Waltz satirises political ambition, familial coercion, and the absurdities of electoral politics through the travails of an incorruptible bureaucrat hounde ...

Lumina de iulie (1963)

even if you say you don't remember that summer light, it has been in your brain for a long time and you would recognize it immediately....in this communist-collectivist propaganda film of an artificially grotesque beauty to the point of absurdity.... ...

General Delivery (1962)

"Post Restant" is about two engineers: Puiu (Iurie Darie), a quite shy character, and Dan (Ion Dichiseanu) an alpha male type. They receive a letter from Liliana, a letter which is actually meant for the former apartment owner. Puiu replies to the letter, ...

Close to the Sun (1961)

Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soo ...

The Boors (1960)

Movie adaptation after Carlo Goldoni`s "I rusteghi" comedy, written in 1760. ...

Our Lads (1960)

A star of a small town soccer team gets involved with the pretty sister of his main rival in the team. ...

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 ...

Doi vecini (1959)

Adaptation based on the sketch "Doi vecini" by Tudor Arghezi. ...

Two Lottery Tickets (1959)

1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella "Două loturi" (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directin ...

D'ale carnavalului (1958)

Nae Girimea, a barber from a late 19th-century Bucharest neighborhood, finds a new mistress, Didina. This event sparks the insane jealousy of his 'soulmate' mistress, Mita Baston, as well as that of the violent Pampon, Didina's official lover. Caught in th ...

Our Director (1955)

Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity. ...

A Lost Letter (1954)

The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife ...

Romanian Farmer (1952)

Chain of Weakness (1952)

Viaţa învinge (1951)

In his struggle to innovate in an industrial plant, Professor Oltenu discovers, through laboratory research, a new technique that could be very useful in turning iron ore into better steel and products made from it. His experiments don't always yield the b ...

Bing-Bang (1935)

Bing and Bang, two dreamy unemployed people, wandering through Cismigiu, receive a lottery ticket as a gift from a friend. Looking for work in Snagov, they find a musical show there, then decide to return to Bucharest where they end up hungry and tired. Th ...