Movies: Emilia Dobrin

On the brink of counter-revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amidst protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime....

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu....

The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this question of heritage is connected to the name she shares with her grandmother, who was born into a tradit...

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as ...

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened....

In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them. She favors a peaceful knight, while her father and his advisors like the ones carrying around a lo...

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Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts....

A Romanian architect who married abroad reunites with his birthplace, with those he met, with the women he loved, with the echoes of what happened once, with the great transformations that are taking place in the Capitol, on construction sites and in...

The search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman....

At Radu Maligan's 94th anniversary the family members and the former colleagues of the old man come to his birthday party. Everything gets complicated when half of the guests try to convince Radu to confess his sins to a priest, while the others thin...

In Alexandru Tatos’s debut film, a young urologist is assigned to a town hospital with no urology ward and keeps bumping up against his superiors because of both ethical and medical problems....

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country....

A movie about the homoerotic relationship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu....

Here the author makes a movie after his own novel. Following 3 murders, the investigations will have some unexpected turns....

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Corrupt ex-communist politicians in 90s Romania rule the country, with younger politicians vying to take their place....

Sergiu, Laura and Smache are three high school graduates who make plans for the future. An idyll is born between Sergiu and Laura, but due to the opposition of the girl's parents and the fact that the young man is recruited, she will marry someone el...

Laur asks the owners’ association in the building he lives in to fix the elevator for his pregnant girlfriend. Throughout the meeting, we witness an absurd world, which imposes its own rules, outside of all that is humane and logical....

This film is about a functional alcoholic, who works as a lathe operator in a factory and is mentoring a young man....