Acting
Andrei Codarcea
Born August 4, 1925 · Miercurea Ciuc, Transylvania Romania
Died January 16, 2003 · aged 77
No biography available.
Known For
Accident · 1977Accident
★ 7.01977
MovieCrimeThriller
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.
The Avalanche · 1959The Avalanche
★ 7.01959
MovieDramaAdventure
The story of the rescue of workers trapped in a snow avalanche in a remote mountain cabin.
Nepoţii gornistului · 1953Nepoţii gornistului
★ 8.01953
MovieAction
The story of three generations of the Dorobantsu peasant family, who fought bravely and selflessly against the oppressors of their homeland. The viewer sees the people who took an active part in the peasant uprisings of 1907 and their descendants who won the war against fascism.
In Our Village · 1951In Our Village
★ 6.81951
MovieDrama
The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
Sunday Father · 1975Sunday Father
★ 6.31975
MovieDramaComedy
Mircea, an auto-mechanic engineer who has left his wife, attends his son's pioneering Sunday go-kart rallies. There he meets the father of his colleague and rival, a prosecutor. The situation becomes tense and a work accident is investigated by the prosecutor himself...
Mitrea Cocor · 1952Mitrea Cocor
★ 8.71952
MovieDrama
Mitrea Kocor, a young butler, gives up his work in the fields to join Antonescu's Romanian army, which fought alongside Nazi forces during World War II. After spending time in Soviet captivity and a prisoner-of-war camp, he returns to his home village to participate in post-war reconstruction.
Beyond the Sands · 1974Beyond the Sands
★ 6.81974
MovieDrama
Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
The Storm · 1960The 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.
Movies
Accident · 1977Accident
★ 7.01977
MovieCrimeThriller
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.
The Avalanche · 1959The Avalanche
★ 7.01959
MovieDramaAdventure
The story of the rescue of workers trapped in a snow avalanche in a remote mountain cabin.
Nepoţii gornistului · 1953Nepoţii gornistului
★ 8.01953
MovieAction
The story of three generations of the Dorobantsu peasant family, who fought bravely and selflessly against the oppressors of their homeland. The viewer sees the people who took an active part in the peasant uprisings of 1907 and their descendants who won the war against fascism.
In Our Village · 1951In Our Village
★ 6.81951
MovieDrama
The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
Sunday Father · 1975Sunday Father
★ 6.31975
MovieDramaComedy
Mircea, an auto-mechanic engineer who has left his wife, attends his son's pioneering Sunday go-kart rallies. There he meets the father of his colleague and rival, a prosecutor. The situation becomes tense and a work accident is investigated by the prosecutor himself...
Mitrea Cocor · 1952Mitrea Cocor
★ 8.71952
MovieDrama
Mitrea Kocor, a young butler, gives up his work in the fields to join Antonescu's Romanian army, which fought alongside Nazi forces during World War II. After spending time in Soviet captivity and a prisoner-of-war camp, he returns to his home village to participate in post-war reconstruction.
Beyond the Sands · 1974Beyond the Sands
★ 6.81974
MovieDrama
Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
The Storm · 1960The 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.
A Certain Kind of Happiness · 1973A 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 Gold Diggers · 1986The Gold Diggers
★ 6.51986
MovieAdventure
Old man John Tarwater and young lawyer Elam Harnish, gripped by the "gold fever" leave for Alaska, embarking on the adventure of a new hard and torturous life, which, due to famine, John Tarwater falls victim to.
The Man Next to You · 1962The Man Next to You
★ 7.01962
MovieDrama
A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she sacrifices her career to follow him to a big project away.
Bătălia din umbră · 1986Bătălia din umbră
★ 7.01986
MovieAction
In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.
Soldiers without Uniform · 1961Soldiers without Uniform
★ 7.51961
MovieWar
An engine driver is taken prisoner in 1944 and ends up in a camp behind enemy lines. He escapes together with a soviet prisoner and a professor and make their way back to Romania.
Mingea · 1960Mingea
★ 8.31960
MovieDrama
With his nose pressed against the glass, four-year-old Ionel watches the kids playing ball in the street with great interest. His father, a schoolteacher, has lost his job. Now he goes to various institutions in vain, because in bourgeois Romania it is not easy to find a job. Ionel waits for his father every night and while waiting for him he dreams of getting a real yellow ball for his birthday. His father realizes that it is necessary to get the money and buy the ball. After all, the boy is crippled, and the ball is the only hope for him to get well...
Poor Ioanide · 1980Poor Ioanide
★ 7.01980
MovieDrama
Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has "on file" the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.
Fox Hunting · 1980Fox Hunting
★ 7.11980
MovieDrama
A Romanian village in the 50s. Năiţă Lucean, a cunning and stubborn peasant, opposes the collectivization process using all possible artifice. He instinctively feels that signing his land and cattle over to the state can only bring bad times for him. His only certainty is the ownership of this insufficient and barren plot of land. Although he strongly opposes it, the idea of the collective good is forcibly enforced.
Saint Teresa and the Devils · 1972Saint Teresa and the Devils
★ 7.51972
MovieDramaAdventure
September, 1944. A group of soldiers and resistance fighters set to blow up a viaduct of strategic value.