Movies: Nicolae Praida

Romania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and poverty. Now, their problem is mostly poverty - and plenty of it. In this grim comedy (to call it a...

The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers....

A young communist returns to a small provincial town....

Some party representatives want to make a new football team....

Three sisters that had a tranquil life in a town suffer dramatic life changes at the end of WW2....

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In a small village in the Danube Delta, where traditions are confronted with new material purposes, a teenage girl is becoming a woman. This is the story of Ryna, a 16 year old girl, working as an motor mechanic in Sulina, who strives to find her ide...

Laura (Carmen Galin) comes from a small town on the Danube to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. She is addressing Irina (Elena Albu) and her mother (Eliza Petrachescu) for a miscarriage following her death. Overwhelmed by a blame not belonging to her...

Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu....

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks....

Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoica....

A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating....

An untalented writer attempts to achieve a "lifelike" scenario fail in a dozen policier....

A successful boxer has a difficult time due to the fact that his family feels neglected....

Professor Cristian conducts research on a citostatic. He is still dealing though with the unjust condemning he suffered in the 50s. Some of the people around him try to bring him down with same type of accusations....

An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania....

Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel-man, having Mihai Solca - a sort of communist industrial hero- as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he so...

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America....

Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"...

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