Writing

Ioan Grigorescu

Born October 19, 1930 · Ploieşti, Prahova, România

Died March 26, 2011 · aged 80

No biography available.

Known For

The Canary and the BlizzardThe Canary and the Blizzard · 1970
The Canary and the Blizzard
6.51970
MovieDrama
In the winter of 1933, an illegalist (a communist, member of a political party a party outlawed at the time) assumes the mission of a wounded colleague to transmit a secret message.
The RingThe Ring · 1984
The Ring
7.01984
MovieDrama
Andrei is now a truck driver, but in one of his travels to Germany, he must become once again a boxer just for one night at the middleweight category.
Merriment WardMerriment Ward · 1964
Merriment Ward
6.71964
MovieComedy
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
Day DDay D · 1985
Day D
1985
MovieHistoryDrama
23 August 1944. The Romanian Army turns their weapons against Nazi Germany and allies with the Soviets. This is the original version of "The Mirror"(1994), made in the communist era.
OilOil · 1977
Oil
5.71977
MovieActionAdventure
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
Streets Have MemoriesStreets Have Memories · 1962
Streets Have Memories
6.01962
MovieDrama
During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.
Felix and OtiliaFelix and Otilia · 1972
Felix and Otilia
6.21972
MovieDrama
Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules. Love, inheritance games, decaying mansions, and fragile hearts collide in this elegant adaptation of George Călinescu’s novel Enigma Otiliei.
Operation 'The Bus'Operation 'The Bus' · 1978
Operation 'The Bus'
7.01978
MovieActionCrime
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.

Filmography

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Train of GoldTrain of Gold · 1986
Train of Gold
5.31986
MovieWarAdventure
First days of September 1939. The government decides to transport the Polish gold stored in the treasury of the National Bank of Poland out of the threatened Warsaw. A convoy is formed under the command of the man for special tasks, Major Bobruk. A string of trucks and city buses travel along crowded roads under relentless attack by aircraft. The convoy makes its way through Lublin to Romanian territory, where the gold will be reloaded onto a train. Prime Minister Calinescu, disregarding the threats of the Nazis, agrees to the transit of the precious bullion through his country. The evacuation of the gold is threatened all the time by a special German sabotage group under the command of Second Lieutenant Rudolf Lang.

Screenplay