Silviu Stănculescu

Carol I (2009)

The last days of the first Romanian king, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the tough decisions he had to make in the summer of 1914 in order to please both Romanian Parliament and his relatives from the German Empire. ...

State of Things (1995)

A story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them. ...

Meurtres par procuration (1995)

Lionel suffers from severe memory loss as a result of an accident. Inspector Corona accuses him of the brutal murder of a law student with whom he had a relationship. ...

Nobody's Children (1994)

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child. ...

Proud Heritage (1989)

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks. ...

The Beech Forest (1987)

In August 1944 Romania, a group of telephone operators are caught in the events in a new center placed in a forest to evade bombardment. ...

Niște băieți grozavi (1987)

A farm team-leader, Tudor, is accused for having failed the harvesting. Unhappy with what he considers an unfair verdict, he leaves the farm and moves to another village, getting a job as an ordinary worker in another farm. At first, he is upset by the ver ...

François Villon: The Maverick Poet (1987)

The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he supported the free expression of people in a coercive climate. ...

The High Schoolers (1986)

The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, ...

Train of Gold (1986)

First days of September 1939. The government decides to transport the Polish gold stored in the treasury of the National Bank of Poland out of the threatened Warsaw. A convoy is formed under the command of the man for special tasks, Major Bobruk. A string ...

Sentimental Summer (1986)

The favorite plot for communist propagandists: a new agronomist comes in the village and gets in conflict with the local cooperative president. Everything ends well. Sprinkled with jokes. ...

The Last Assault (1985)

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2. ...

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. ...

Intoarcerea Vlasinilor (1984)

The action of the movie unfolds on two levels. On the one hand, the shepherds, displaced by the abuses of the Habsburg powers, are living in "the country". Here they run into other troubles, with the demands of the Phanariot authorities. At the same time, ...

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. ...

Vlashins' Leaving (1982)

In 18th century Hapsburg ruled Transilvania the Romanian shepherds from the village of Vlașini face the oppression and injustice of imperial authorities, being forced to flee from their place of birth or pay tribute to the Germans of Hermannstadt for graz ...

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. ...

Mountains in Flames (1980)

1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach. ...

At the Crossroads of Great Storms (1980)

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home. ...

The third deadly jump (1980)

Major Smith, a British intelligence officer, receives an assignment to transport to England a professor of the University of Bucharest, a geologist who has discovered a deposit of uranium ore in Romania. However, the professor suddenly disappears. To find ...

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 Man in the Overcoat (1979)

Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad? ...

Ora zero (1979)

In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI. ...

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. ...

Together Again (1978)

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

Operation 'The Bus' (1978)

In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap. ...

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. ...

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 Last Night of Loneliness (1976)

The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village. ...

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. ...

The Escape (1975)

Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia. ...

No Trespassing (1975)

In August 1944, students at the military school for officers must defend the country's border from the Nazis during the Battle of Păuliș in Romania's northwestern border. ...

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 ...

The Snowstorm (1973)

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

The Conspiracy (1973)

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

The Paratroopers (1973)

A harsh colonel of paratroopers neglects his family after falling in love with a chess player, the sister of one of his paratroopers that got injured because of the jumping punishment given by him. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Camera alba (1965)

A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the consequences of an accident and the implications that medicine catalogs in the name of science. ...

You Look Wild (1965)

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"). ...

Four Steps Away From Infinity (1964)

A young officer of the Romanian Army performs a sabotage mission against the Nazi regime. Seriously wounded, the officer can not reach the fixed place and finds shelter in a surgeon's home. ...

Your Part of the Blame (1963)

This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career ...

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. ...

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 ...