The best Gina Patrichi’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gina Patrichi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Gina Patrichi.
The Moromete Family
8.8/10
Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.
The Immortals
7.7/10
It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
Astray
6.9/10
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
Circus Performers
7.2/10
A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Bariera
7.4/10
The Inn Among the Hills
6.3/10
In order to obtain a title, Iordache, recently becoming wealthy, marries his daughter with a noble on hard times, Ștefan. On his way to Iordache's estate, he stops an Mânjoalâ's inn, where he discovers a mysterious world and falls for the innkeeper. Based on Caragiale's novel, "La Hanul lui Mânjoală”. Last film role for Gina Patrichi.
Burebista
7.4/10
The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.
Felix and Otilia
7/10
In this monumental Romanian film, a large family and its many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. This movie is based on a very long and popular novel by George Calmescu, and is similar in some ways to England's BBC television series, The Forsythe Saga, based on Galsworthy's books. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge. In one story, a poor young man is disappointed in love as his girl chooses lucre over love in selecting a mate.
Fleeting Loves
7.7/10
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 Romanian villages. Condemned by an incurable disease, but also overwhelmed by these realities and by the irrepressible longing for his homeland, the hero decides to return home for good.
Merriment Ward
6.8/10
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube
7.6/10
Circus Performers at the North Pole
6.7/10
In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
We Do Not Film Just for Fun
7/10
This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
The Extras
6.8/10
After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"
Sunday Father
7.4/10
Beyond the Sands
6.9/10
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 Silence of the Deep
6.2/10
In the times when communism was illegal, one young worker is sentenced to the capital punishment for crimes against the state.
