Geo Saizescu

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Geo Saizescu

Born November 14, 1932 · Prisăceaua, Mehedinţi, România

Died September 23, 2013 · aged 80

Geo Saizescu (14 November 1932 – 23 September 2013) was a Romanian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in 22 films between 1963 and 2009 and directed 16 films between 1956 and 2012. He was born in Prisăceaua, Mehedinți County in 1932, the twelfth child of his parents; his father was a notary in the village. After his secondary studies at the Traian High School in Turnu Severin, he…

Known For

Iubire ElenăIubire Elenă · 2012
Iubire Elenă
★ 8.02012
MovieDramaRomance
EscapadaEscapada · 1983
Escapada
★ 7.01983
MovieComedy
A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
Doi veciniDoi vecini · 1959
Doi vecini
★ 7.81959
MovieComedy
Adaptation based on the sketch "Doi vecini" by Tudor Arghezi.
HarababuraHarababura · 1990
Harababura
★ 6.21990
MovieComedy
A few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet by chance in Poiana Brașov.
Căruța cu mereCăruța cu mere · 1983
Căruța cu mere
★ 5.81983
Movie
Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists.
BlackmailBlackmail · 1981
Blackmail
★ 7.11981
MovieThrillerCrime
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Bucharest Identity CardBucharest Identity Card · 1982
Bucharest Identity Card
★ 7.71982
MovieComedy
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...
Hurry SlowlyHurry Slowly · 1981
Hurry Slowly
★ 7.91981
MovieComedy
An important man, always in a hurry, but especially when behind the wheel, runs over a strange pedestrian: a young globe-trotting, absent-minded young man who is treading firmly, but in the wrong place, on the wide road. After hesitating for a moment, the man behind the wheel turns back to the scene and can't find his victim. Out of nowhere, however, the victim appears in the man's life, upsetting an entire family with dramatic and comic-sentimental entanglements.

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PăcalăPăcală · 1974
Păcală
★ 7.11974
MovieComedy
Pacala 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.

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