Andrei Blaier

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Andrei Blaier

Born May 16, 1933 · Braila, Romania

Died December 1, 2011 · aged 78

Andrei Blaier (15 May 1933 – 1 December 2011) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 1958 film The Ball was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Born in Bucharest, he attended the Ion Luca Caragiale High School and then graduated in 1956 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts. In 2002, Blaier was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, …

Known For

The Mornings of a Sensible YouthThe Mornings of a Sensible Youth · 1967
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
6.51967
MovieDrama
After 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.
The Lost ForestThe Lost Forest · 1972
The Lost Forest
7.21972
MovieDramaRomance
In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on.
The Moment of TruthThe Moment of Truth · 1989
The Moment of Truth
7.31989
MovieDrama
An epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia.
A Certain Kind of HappinessA Certain Kind of Happiness · 1973
A Certain Kind of Happiness
6.51973
MovieDrama
A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.
The StormThe Storm · 1960
The Storm
6.31960
MovieActionWar
The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
Steps in the SkySteps in the Sky · 1977
Steps in the Sky
7.41977
MovieDramaRomance
Ion is the head of workers' team who install high-voltage lines in the mountains. He discovers a design error that could put many lives in jeopardy and knows that the chief designer is Valeria, his ex-girlfriend from adolescent days.
The FuryThe Fury · 1978
The Fury
7.01978
MovieDrama
A village celebrates being granted the title of city. During the festivity an old, sick, beat down man shows up. No one seems to recognise him but he claims to be a villager that everyone thought had died in the war 30 years earlier.
Ora HOra H · 1957
Ora H
9.01957
Movie
An adventure movie for children and young people about the solidarity of a group of schoolboys who help their schoolmate to foil an attempt to compromise his father, who was about to be involved in a theft of timber from the warehouse where he was a guard. Based on a novel by Nicuta Tanase.

Filmography

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Through the Ashes of the EmpireThrough the Ashes of the Empire · 1976
Through the Ashes of the Empire
5.91976
MovieDramaHistory
A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect – silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all – fragments of an old way to discover reality. all – words of a new world.

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