Octavian Cotescu
Actor · 1931 – 1985 · Dorohoi, Botoşani, Romania
Movies20
Movie7.1ThrillerCrimeA gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Movie8.3ComedyA 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.
Movie7.0ComedyA bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
Escapada
1983 · 4 votes
Movie7.5CrimeTwo murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
Movie5.8FantasyAdventureIn 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.
Movie7.1WarDramaA 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 threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
Movie6.5DramaAfter 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.
Movie7.8DramaRomanceAt a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
- Movie5.4Drama
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.
Movie7.7ComedyA 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...
Movie7.1ComedyPacala 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 beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.
Păcală
1974 · 12 votes
Movie7.2ComedyA concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
Movie7.5ActionThrillerDuring 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
Movie6.1FamilyFantasyIn 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 by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.
Movie7.3ComedyA 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.
Movie8.2ComedyRomanceSequel 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.
Movie5.6AdventureDramaA circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Movie8.2DramaThis is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Movie7.7DramaFamilyIn 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.
Movie6.2DramaThe 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".