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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 billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.
Feb 1979
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, but will go through many trials.
May 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.
Jan 1986
Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.
Apr 1986
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 order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
Dec 1976
A young geologist who believes strongly in the existence of a huge copper deposit. He will fight to prove this, while his mentor suffers a serious accident.
Jan 1987
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...
Jan 1982
In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.
Sep 1986
Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.
Sep 1977
In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis. But when an important damage takes place in the factory where both of them work, the first one’s incompetence comes out.
Jan 1985
A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man.
The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the soldier refuses to admit that he is the father of the child to be born, as Amalia was just a fling in his eyes. Amalia decides to raise the kid all by herself, but she soon changes her mind…
Nov 1983
Virgil, the son of a director, fails to get into college and he is drafted in the army. This "forced" growing up is even more painful as he is followed by a "fata morgana", a lost love.
Jan 1981
A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.
Feb 1986
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
Jan 1978
Marina, a girl from a stunt team, passively assists to everyone's rush to choose the protagonist without whom the filming cannot begin. After weeks of nothing happening, the director, reviewing the footage on the screen, is struck by the photogenic photo of a young girl in an extras scene, which no one can identify. Marina doesn't want to reveal the secret to those on the set because, more pragmatically, her goal is different: admission to cybernetics!
Jan 1988
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.
Oct 1989
An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.
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.
Apr 1982
On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.