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PRODUCTION > MOTION PICTURES
AMERICAN FIANCEES
 >DVD-available
Director: Nicolae Margineanu
Script: Eva Sarbu
Director Of Photography: Mihai Sarbusca
Music: Petru Margineanu
Editing: Nita Chivulescu
Starring: Maria Ploae, Marcel Iures, Tamara Cretulescu, Horatiu Malaiele, Monica Ghiuta, Cornel Scripcaru, Oana Maria Margineanu, Andrei Runcanu
Brief Synopsis:
Seven characters, five adults and two teenagers, seem to be spending a peaceful weekend in the holiday house of Rodica and Radu Pana.
They are celebrating, in a manner of speaking, the return of Maria, Rodica’s one-time friend and Radu’s former fiancée. She has come back to her native country 16 years after having defected to America.
Maria is here to learn first-hand why in the States she was considered a false defector, why her fiancé failed to follow her as they had agreed, and especially who “recommended” her to the Securitate as a possible collaborator.
In a few hours things get dramatically sorted out. Maria learns that Irina, Rodica’s daughter, was conceived while she was still in the country. Also that Rodica had actually planned everything, including Maria’s enrollment with the Securitate. Radu discovers he is the father of Maria’s son, Petru, and that Rodica has known it all along. Irina will find that Petru, on whom she has a crash, is her brother.
Therefore, she is very close to shooting all those she thinks have let her down.
This is a story about love, friendship and betrayal in terrible times. It is a story about lies and their impact in time. About truth and its price tag.
A MERRY WORLD >VHS-available
Director: Malvina Ursianu
Script: Malvina Ursianu
Director Of Photography: Doru Mitran
Music: Petru Margineanu
Editing: Melania Oproiu
Starring:Tamara Cretulescu, Florin Piersic Jr., Ilinca Goia, Silviu Petcu, Ioan Niciu, Tania Popa
PRIZES: Special Prize of the Jury, Union of Filmakers 2000
Brief Synopsis:
“Gioconda without a smile”, “Soiree”, “Passing love”, “The Return of Voda Lapusneanu”, “Clamness from the deep”, “On the left bank of the Blue Danube”, “A light at the 10th floor”, “Figurants”, “No one lives here”, “A merry world”...Ten movies, between 1967 and 2003, on whos credit it’s written “Screen play and Director – Malvina Ursianu” and a basic obsession, that generated an impressive thematic coherence: the rapports of the individual with the history, the accord or the dramatic breach between the individual and the historical destiny. These are coordinates that places her in the family of some important european postbelic cineasts, authors, in the most profound sense of the word, whos films belong to them “like flesh and blood”.
“A merry world” is the director’s last film, a movie made in a tragi-comic manner about our romanian world that we hope it’s a transition one...
Magda Mihailescu
BLESS YOU PRISON >DVD-available
Director: Nicolae Margineanu
Script: Nicolae Margineanu, Catalin Cocris, Tudor Voican, based on the novel "Bless You Prison"
by Nicole Valery Grossu
Director Of Photography: Doru Mitran
Music: Petru Margineanu
Editing: Melania Oproiu
Starring: Maria Ploae, Dorina Lazar, Victoria Cocias, Maria Rotaru, Iulia Lazar, Romanita Ionescu
2003, aprox. 87 min. color, 35 mm
PRIZES:
Best Artistic Contribution Award and Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury at The World Film Festival Montreal 2003
Christian Visual Media’s Crown Awards (Atlanta, SUA, 2004):
Silver Award – Best Screenplay
Silver Award - Best International Film
Bronze Award – Best Picture
Silver Award – Best Drama
Best Actress Award, Romanian Filmakers Union 2003
Brief Synopsis:
A young intellectual woman, Nicole, is arrested in the years of Stalinism simply for being an active member of an opposition party. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics. She proceeds to an in-depth soul-searching that helps her discover the power of faith and steels her to put up resistance. Nicole goes through the ordeal of communist prisons, conflicts and risky activities, and manages to provide a heartening example for the other inmates. Daily prison life is not drab but full of unexpected happenings like a story. This is an extremely objective film that scans with warmth and sensitivity a woman's emotional testimony of faith.
THE FAMOUS PAPARAZZO >DVD-available
Director: Nicolae Margineanu
Script: Rasvan Popescu
Director Of Photography: Doru Mitran
Music: Petru Margineanu
Editing: Nita Chivulescu
Starring: Marvel Iures, Maria Ploae, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Repan, Victoria Cocias, Valeriu Popescu
1999, aprox. 84 min. color, 35 mm
Brief Synopsis:
Gary, 30, an extremely ambitious scandal reporter, has to make compromising photographs of an opposition's deputy, who is suspected to have intimate relations with un underage girl. Gary moves to Miss's attic, an at the limit of despair, over 45, suburb prostitute, where from he can watch the deputy's hotel room. Risking very much, he succeeds to make those photographs. For one month, offering Miss a solution for surviving, Gary covers all the expenses. After accomplishing his mission, he leaves the same way he came. Not being capable to make a new start, Miss commits suicide. Gary is arrested...
WAR IN THE KITCHEN
Director: Marius Barna
Script: Rasvan Popescu
Director Of Photography: Doru Mitran
Music: Petru Margineanu
Editing: Cristina Bratescu
Settings: Ioan Olaru
Costumes: Eugenia Botanescu
Starring: Gheorghe Dinica, Ovidiu Niculescu, Imola Kezdi, Tora Vasilescu, Virgil Andriescu
Brief Synopsis:
On
the background of the events that took place in the spring of 1990
in Tirgu Mures, a young man deserts from the military service. Exhausted
and starved, the deserter arrives to a block station, where he finds
a hungarian line inspector, who lives there together with his beautifull
daughter. The diserter hides in one of the block station's ware-houses
but hei s discovered by the line inspector's daughter and finally
by the line inspector himself. The tension between the young man
and the line inspector announces a dramatic evolution of the facts... |
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