Ștefan Bănică

Harababura (1990)

A few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet by chance in Poiana Brașov. ...

Fourth Fence, by the Wharf (1988)

Mișu and Mitică are two best friends. Everything changes when Cornelia shows up. ...

Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? (1981)

Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosph ...

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979)

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billi ...

Alone Amongst Friends (1979)

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

The Cyanide and the Raindrop (1978)

Investigation into the death of a modest cashier. ...

September (1978)

After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best one would be his father in Bucharest. To get there, he steals a motorcycle. In Bucharest he meets store cle ...

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 ...

Fair-Play (1977)

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 Snowstorm (1973)

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

The Cyclists Are Coming (1968)

The humorous adventures of an all-male team of cyclists training for an upcoming important bike race. ...

Împușcături pe portativ (1968)

In this cinematographic variety show, the strong point is the ballet: inventive, original, modern, pleasant, filmed with a great power of suggestion by the cinematographer Alexandru Întorsureanu, using superimpositions to enhance the movement. ...

Chief of the Souls Sector (1967)

Magdalena, a young chemist, imagines how the perfect man should look like. Gore, a meteorologist, former friend who was in love with her identifies in the end with the true love imagined by Magdalena. ...

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 ...

The Tunnel (1966)

Romania, 1944. Six intelligence agents, Russians and Romanians, at the cost of their own lives, prevented the Nazis from destroying a strategically important object — a tunnel on the path of the Soviet Army. ...

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 ...

Across de Lifting Gate (1965)

Vulpașin is desperatley in love with Nastasia, but she is partial to Luca, which works at a factory outside the slum they live in ("accros the lifting gate"). ...

Vacanta la mare (1963)

A group of students from an architectural institute, instead of going to the mountains, accidentally end up in a vacation home by the sea. Here, after a series of amusing adventures, they successfully perform with their amateur variety orchestra. ...