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Complete Filmography
The Survivor
2008
as Limba
After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge...
ROMing
2007
as Somáli
Jura, a reluctant university student already smitten with someone else, is swept off by his father’s eccentric friend Stano to fulfill an age-old prom...
The Way I Spent the End of the World
2006
as Uncle Florică
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and...
Păcală se întoarce
2006
as The Gypsy
Păcală, a young man without too many expectations from life, is tired of wandering around the world and driven by the longing for his parental home he...
Sexy Harem Ada-Kaleh
2001
as Ismail
After the mysterious disappearance of the island of Ada-Kaleh, the site of an incendiary love affair, Ismail flees to Istanbul, leaving behind a great...
The Second Fall of Constantinople
1994
as Ismail
Caught up in the crazes of the "transition", Suflețel also dreams of great adventure. When he learns that his old friend Ismail is his son's real fath...
Attack in the Library
1993
Andrei Mladin, a young investigative reporter, is set up for two murders by a criminal that he brought to justice earlier.
Miss Litoral
1991
as Nea Mielu, căpitan de cursă lungă
Nea Costel and her consort, Didona, want their daughter, Tina, to participate in the Miss Litoral beauty contest. But Tina is in love with a shy and j...
Every Day I Miss You
1988
as Gică
A young girl is cast for a musical comedy, but she refuses after her father doesn't let her play in it. After that, more offers emerge, along with a h...
Secretul lui Nemesis
1987
as James Giovanni Cocoloș
The administrator of a huge apartment block in Bucharest, a former great Communist Party activist, now in disgrace, eliminated from politics and perch...
Cucoana Chirița
1986
as Barabulă
The Bârzoi manor comes back to life when the lady of the house, Chirița, sends news that she will be soon coming back from Paris. As the City of Light...
The Turquoise Necklace
1986
as Prof. Aurică
The kidnapping of a Viennese banker and his daughter threatens to trigger a diplomatic scandal, which could result in the entry of Austrian armies int...
The Silver Mask
1985
as „profesorul” Aurică
Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure collected in order to buy the throne. However, the go...
The Migrant Birds Are Coming
1984
as Marin
In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
The Secret of Bacchus
1984
as Trandafir Bulbuc
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed...
Un petic de cer
1984
as Gică
The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal...
The Mysteries of Bucharest
1983
as profesorul Aurică
The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societ...
Mercenaries' Trap
1982
as Corcodel
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of...
Iancu Jianu, Outlaw
1981
as Corcodel
The movie is set in 1788-1843, a tumultuous era for Walla Wallachia, when the Phanariot regime was exercising its power over the people. In a world ma...
The Duel
1981
as Limbă (Tongue)
Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catc...
Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector
1981
as Corcodel
The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the ...
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
1981
as Temistocles
The third part of the trilogy focuses on June and Romulus, who are having a baby. The misfortune delays the family's plans to move back to Transylvani...
I have an Idea
1981
Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
Crew for Singapore
1981
as Cucu
A ship captain loses his ship and most of his crew in a shipwreck in the Caribbean. Returning home, he has a guilty conscience and nightmares about wh...
The third deadly jump
1980
as Blufferini
Major Smith, a British intelligence officer, receives an assignment to transport to England a professor of the University of Bucharest, a geologist wh...
The Man We Need
1979
as Coach
A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
Arms of Afrodite
1979
as Jean
A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
1979
as Teach, șef de bandă
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...
Anything for Soccer
1978
as Max, animatorul galeriei echipei de fotbal
In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones respo...
Revenge
1978
as Limba
"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we mee...
Melodii, melodii
1978
as Grecu
A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.
Expresul de Buftea
1978
as Jean
Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - th...
September
1978
as Jorj
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 o...
I, You, and Ovidiu
1978
as Misica
A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime. The Black Sea coast and the city of Constanta, in the height of the summer season...
Operation 'The Bus'
1978
as Gypsy
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 an...
Shootings Under the Moonlight
1977
as Badea Cîrleci
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
Gloria nu cîntă
1977
as Fane
The "Sing the country's cities" contest organized on TV is sweeping the province. Facing her baccalaureate and enamored... by cybernetics, Gloria is p...
Oil
1977
as Jean
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are ca...
The Redhead
1976
as Thief Achim / Tungsram
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in o...
Grandpa and Two Young Offenders
1976
as Vârlan
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 no...
The Court Adjourns the Sentencing
1976
as Cârlig
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
Hot Days
1976
as Cristea
In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal r...
The Escape
1975
as Ion Ion
Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia.
We Do Not Film Just for Fun
1975
as Painter / Petrică
This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
The Immortals
1974
as Scurtu
It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
The Martens Brothers
1974
as Zailic
Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. Ionut is the youngest son of Commissar Jder, a trusted man of Ste...
A Police Inspector Calls
1974
as Limbă
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose ...
The Poseidon Explosion
1973
A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city
The Last Bullet
1973
as Floacă, zis Stampă
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. ...
Stejar, extremă urgență
1973
The secret plan "Margareta II", drawn up by the German General Staff for the intervention of German troops in case of Romania's exit from the war, is ...
Farewell, Dear Nela!
1972
as The Italian tourist
When a rich Romanian lawyer aims to find his 2 long-lost sons and inheritors he places an ad in the newspaper but many crooks show up instead.
The Dowry of Lady Ralu
1972
as Parpanghel
Part two of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 5 of the Outlaws series. After a spectacular escape plotted by Anița, Răspopitul...
Felix and Otilia
1972
Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules....
Asediul
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 b...
Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
1971
as Patraulea
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
Săptămâna nebunilor
1971
as Parpanghel
The last part of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Șaptecai and episode 6 of the Outlaws series. In the Week of Fools, Anghel's band exchanges Lady...
The Outlaws of Sevenhorses
1971
as Parpanghel
The third movie in the Haiducii series, set in Muntenia during the Phanariote period. Lady Ralu needs a million galbeni to buy a jewelry collection fr...
Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea
1971
as Patraulea
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
The Canary and the Blizzard
1970
as Animal Tamer
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 colleagu...
Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In
1970
as Patraulea
Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.
Too Little for Such a Big War
1970
A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troo...
The Axe
1969
A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
The Revenge of the Outlaws
1968
as Parpanghel
Second 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 an...
The Kidnapping of the Maidens
1968
as Parpanghel
In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers do...
The Major and Death
1967
as Driver
A police major is investigating a gangster.
The Outlaws
1966
as Parpanghel
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 Boss of Champignol
1966
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him fo...
White Trial
1966
as Gică Hau Hau
Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend. Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen B...
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960
as Fourak
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, an...
The Baron of the Locks
1960
as Prince Héliakim Sadokkan
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town...