Octavian Cotescu

Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur (2003)

Collection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made. ...

A Spare Moment (1986)

Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into. ...

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. ...

Promisses (1985)

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life. ...

Too Hot for May (1984)

At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows. ...

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... ...

Circus Performers at the North Pole (1984)

In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film. ...

The Secret of Bacchus (1984)

Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cro ...

A Swan in Winter (1983)

Adapted from the play "The Fifth Swan" by Paul Everac, the movie depicts the love story between Dufy, a talented ballerina but cast as an extra, and Mirea, an engineer at the height of his career. The love story between the two proves impossible because of ...

The Story of the Voyages (1983)

In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type ...

Escapada (1983)

A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps. ...

Miezul fierbinte al painii (1983)

Sword Swallower (1982)

The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower". ...

Bucharest Identity Card (1982)

A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband... ...

Stay with You (1982)

A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned. ...

The Computer Testifies (1982)

Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim. ...

Circus Performers (1981)

A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub. ...

The Carpathian Castle (1981)

In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances. ...

Blackmail (1981)

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage. ...

Poor Ioanide (1980)

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened com ...

Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love (1980)

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curs ...

The Man We Need (1979)

A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating. ...

Tragic Vacation (1979)

During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village. ...

The Moment (1979)

This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed. ...

Alone Amongst Friends (1979)

A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places. ...

The Hope (1979)

The film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers' rights and organizer of the trade union movement in Romania. ...

Together Again (1978)

An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it. ...

Shootings Under the Moonlight (1977)

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania. ...

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. ...

Winter of the Goslings (1977)

A strange phenomenon is taking place in the village of Viișoara: the men have disappeared! Because they couldn't stand the tyranny of Varvara, who runs the agricultural cooperative, they preferred to get a job in a factory, but things don't go according t ...

Aurel Vlaicu (1977)

Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer. ...

A Lost Letter (1977)

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 ...

Gloria nu cîntă (1977)

The "Sing the country's cities" contest organized on TV is sweeping the province. Facing her baccalaureate and enamored... by cybernetics, Gloria is pushed to take part in the contest. But Gloria doesn't sing. ...

Tufă de Veneția (1977)

A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru. ...

Serenade for the 12th Floor (1976)

Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood. ...

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 Court Adjourns the Sentencing (1976)

A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident. ...

Operation 'The Monster' (1976)

A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations. ...

Penelope's Condition (1976)

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, "the most faithful of wives", who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy ...

Magic Circle (1975)

Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different. ...

Autumn of the Goslings (1975)

After graduating from college, three graduates, French teacher Mariella , doctor Ovidiu, and agricultural engineer Geo, set off without knowing each other for the village of Viișoara, 599 km from Bucharest, where they have been assigned jobs. ...

The Prodigal Father (1974)

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens. ...

Păcală (1974)

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So ...

The Trap (1974)

After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner wh ...

Hidden Mountain (1974)

A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family. ...

Bariera (1972)

In 1942, Nea' Vitu is in trouble with his children: a son is fascinated by the world of war profiteers, and the daughter is going around with the speculator "Treispemii" (Dan Nutu). On the evening of her engagement, Vitu is denounced by his son for hiding ...

Through Dusky Ways (1972)

When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but will she be able to seize this new oportunity for happiness? ...

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 Siege (1971)

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. ...

The Castle of the Condemned (1970)

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets. ...

The Saturday Night Dance (1968)

Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls. ...

Boga Sisters (1968)

This is about the lives of three sisters during the second World War in Romania. Based on the homonymous play by Horia Lovinescu. ...

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. ...

A Night Long Love (1963)

A psychological movie about the life of three sisters in a Romanian village. ...

Tanta si Costel - Iubirea e un lucru foarte mare (1962)

Tanta and Costel are two ordinary citizens, whose destinies will change completely after an unforeseen meeting at the train station in Medgidia. ...