Maria Rotaru

Bless You, Prison (2002)

Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation ...

Amen. (2002)

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit ...

Dark Asylum (2001)

Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her ...

Double Ecstasy (1998)

Constructed in the tone of a tragicomedy, the film, through the realistic situations it presents, excludes parody of any kind and leaves room for lyricism and humor. It also brings before the audience a story that will appear to us as something indifferent ...

A Dream's Bird Ashes (1989)

Five high school graduates are followed though their life altering decisions and their consequences. ...

O vară cu Mara (1988)

Six carpenters from Maramureș go to a village in Bărăgan to build some stables. These are the head of the family, 4 brothers and their sister, Mara. Her beauty attracts local suitors. ...

Missing Witnesses (1988)

At the end of XIX century, Romania, A boyar tries to send a trunk full of jewels to his daughter abroad. Only that the trunk doesn't make the trip, so the daughter comes in the country to recover it, enlisting the help of some outlaws. ...

The Extras (1987)

After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. ...

On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube (1983)

The search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman. ...

Like in Films (1983)

An untalented writer attempts to achieve a "lifelike" scenario fail in a dozen policier. ...

Prides (1982)

Professor Cristian conducts research on a citostatic. He is still dealing though with the unjust condemning he suffered in the 50s. Some of the people around him try to bring him down with same type of accusations. ...

The Silence of the Deep (1982)

In the times when communism was illegal, one young worker is sentenced to the capital punishment for crimes against the state. ...

Stele de iarnă (1980)

Last Days of Summer (1976)

Engineer Bunea, a site manager, neglects his personal life in favor of his professional duties. But going through a crisis of conscience, he wants to give up the responsibilities of his job and tries to find a more peaceful job. ...

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 Canary and the Blizzard (1970)

In the winter of 1933, an illegalist (a communist, member of a political party a party outlawed at the time) assumes the mission of a wounded colleague to transmit a secret message. ...