Poor Ioanide

Poor Ioanide

1980 · 142 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

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.

Directed by Dan Pița · Written by Eugen Barbu

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Gheorghe Dinică conferențiarul universitar Gonzalv Ionescu
Gheorghe Visu actorul Cioarec
Mircea Diaconu milițian
Ştefan Iordache Dumitru Dragavei „Botticelli”
Carmen Galin Pica, fiica lui Ioanide
Ion Besoiu colonelul Remus Gavrilcea
Florina Cercel dublaj voce Ioana „indolenta”
George Constantin dublaj voce Ioanide
Dorel Vișan Petrișor, fiul lui Bonifaciu Hagienuș
Marga Barbu Angela Valsamaky-Farfara
Olga Tudorache Prințesa Hangerliu, mama lui Max
Ion Caramitru Prințul Max Hangerliu, comandant legionar

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