The best Octavian Cotescu’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Octavian Cotescu’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 Octavian Cotescu.
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
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
8/10
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
Prea cald pentru luna mai
7.3/10
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
Bietul Ioanide
7.6/10
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
8.1/10
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
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.
Hidden Mountain
6.1/10
A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family.
Together Again
6.3/10
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.
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.
A Night Long Love
6.5/10
A psychological movie about the life of three sisters in a Romanian village.
The Court Adjourns the Sentencing
7/10
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
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.
Alone Amongst Friends
5.8/10
A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.
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.
The Green Grass of Home
7.3/10
After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
7.1/10
A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
Sword Swallower
7.5/10
The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".
A Swan in Winter
7.2/10
