Virgil Andriescu

Acting

Virgil Andriescu

Born April 26, 1936 · Bucureşti, Romania

Died November 20, 2025 · aged 89

No biography available.

Known For

Ulysses' GazeUlysses' Gaze · 1995
Ulysses' Gaze
7.51995
MovieDramaHistory
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Look Ahead with AngerLook Ahead with Anger · 1993
Look Ahead with Anger
5.61993
MovieDrama
After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.
The OakThe Oak · 1992
The Oak
6.71992
MovieComedyDrama
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.
Huntress: Spirit of the NightHuntress: Spirit of the Night · 1995
Huntress: Spirit of the Night
4.11995
MovieHorror
An architect discovers the animal inside her after she falls prey to an ancient curse on a visit to her Welsh homeland.
Tales from the Golden AgeTales from the Golden Age · 2009
Tales from the Golden Age
7.02009
MovieComedyHistory
Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.
The Great VacationThe Great Vacation · 1988
The Great Vacation
4.71988
MovieDrama
Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.
UlzanaUlzana · 1974
Ulzana
5.11974
MovieWesternAdventure
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.
LabirintulLabirintul
Labirintul
Movie
The presentation of the team of Romanian socialist activists Ștefan Gheorghiu, I.C. Frimu, M.G. Bujor, and Gheorghe Cristescu, joined by the journalist and publicist N.D. Cocea.

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