The best Ion Finteşteanu’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ion Finteşteanu’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 Ion Finteşteanu.
The Protar Affair
7.5/10
The Protar Affair (Romanian: Afacerea Protar) is a 1956 Romanian comedy film directed by Haralambie Boroș. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
A Cloudless Vacation
6.3/10
Péter and Pál, two notorious skirt hunters competing in wooing Oana, a pretty Romanian girl on the beach at Tihany. A couple of days later the girl gets a telegram saying that she has to leave for Bucharest immediately. The party - which has increased with Piri, the interpreter, and Ági, the hitch-hiker - gets to a Romanian village by Peter's ramshackle car, a 1921 Colymne. The car, however, breaks down.
Titanic Waltz
8.6/10
Based on a play by Tudor Mușatescu, Titanic Vals is the essence of Romanian genius in comedy, with amazing performances and the beautiful absurd of the quotidian.
Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea
8.6/10
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
The Outlaws
7.6/10
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 and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.
Celebrul 702
7.9/10
Crumbled Citadel
5.9/10
This movie is a screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Horia Lovinescu. It follows a "bourgeois" family as it copes with the emerging communist regime. Different members of the family take different paths.
The Evening Party
6.1/10
At a party with diverse guests are dealing with the events os August 23rd, 1944. Guests are serving as metaphors for different parts of society.
A Lost Letter
8.3/10
The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who will be the "elected" representative to the national Senate. A love letter from the bachelor mayor to the wife of the local party chief, gets lost and found by a drunk party supporter. The letter finds its way to the opposition party, which decide to use the letter by blackmailing the powerful local "camarilla", and to get his own man to represent the county. What follows is not easy to guess....
