The best Mihai Mereuţă’s drama movies
Today we present the best Mihai Mereuţă’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Mihai Mereuţă’s movies.
The Punishment
8/10
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 to the local landowner.
Michael the Brave
8.5/10
An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.
Codine
7.9/10
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Ecaterina Teodoroiu
7.1/10
The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1.
Snowfall Season
7.2/10
Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village.
The Thirst
6.7/10
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Eruption
7.2/10
The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.
Ora zero
6/10
In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI.
The Great Solitary
7.8/10
Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.
Mad Forest
6.6/10
A young communist returns to a small provincial town.
January Dream
7.4/10
Young Moldovan nobles try to overthrow King Mihail Sturdza. They plot an assassination and spread flyers. On this backdrop, there is a romance story between Franz Liszt, in tournament, and one of the noblemen's daughter, who is close to the plotters.
Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector
7.6/10
The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.
The Prodigal Father
7.8/10
This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.
The Snowstorm
4.4/10
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
Tragic Vacation
6.5/10
During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.
Then the Legend was Born
7.1/10
Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle.
Streets Have Memories
6.5/10
During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.
