The best Nucu Păunescu’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Nucu Păunescu’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 Nucu Păunescu.
The Redhead
7.1/10
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
Three Days and Three Nights
5.2/10
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
The Snowstorm
4.4/10
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
Bariera
7.4/10
The Thirst
6.7/10
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
The Stranger
7.7/10
The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.
Porto-Franco
7.1/10
The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
Uncertain Roads
6/10
Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.
Mitrea Cocor
5.4/10
Darclée
7.5/10
In this undistinguished drama, Darclee (Silvia Popovici) is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want. Matei Jacob directs.
Desfasurarea
8/10
Through the Ashes of the Empire
7.7/10
A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect - silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all - fragments of an old way to discover reality. all - words of a new world.
The Power and The Truth
7.2/10
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Operation 'The Bus'
7.3/10
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
Nufărul roșu
8.9/10
In Our Village
5.2/10
The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
