Ernest Maftei Movies

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold...

It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice...

First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots...

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...

A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to...

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.

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine...

A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman....

It is 1944, german troops are in retreat. These troops were using a communication station and a cypher. The mission is to acquire the cypher...

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.

An epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia.

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...

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

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

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and...

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted...

Vitoria, a strong-willed peasant woman from the mountains, sets out on a relentless journey to find out what happened to her husband, the shepherd...

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on...