Sergiu Nicolaescu

AKA: Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu, Serge Nicolaescu, Serge Nicola
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1930-04-13

Târgu-Jiu, Gorj, Romania

Biography

Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (Romanian: [ˈserd͡ʒju floˈrin nikolaˈesku]; 13 April 1930 – 3 January 2013) was a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He was best known for his historical films, such as Mihai Viteazul (1970, released in English both under the equivalent title Michael the Brave and also as The Last Crusade), Dacii (1966, Les Guerriers), Razboiul Independenței (1977, War of Independence), as well as for his series of thrillers that take place in the interwar Kingdom of Romania, such as Un comisar acuză (1973, A Police Inspector Calls). Joanna Pacuła starred in his film Ultima noapte de dragoste (The Last Night of Love) in 1979 before eventually emigrating to the U.S. where she went on to very successful career. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crew Roles

The Prairie
Director
Memoria trandafirului
Director
Michael the Brave
Director
The Dacians
Director
Poker
Director
15
Director
The Immortals
Director
The Immortals
Writer
With Clean Hands
Director
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
Director
The Duel
Director
The Duel
Writer
Revenge
Director
The Last Bullet
Director
A Police Inspector Calls
Director
The Survivor
Director
Accident
Director
François Villon: The Maverick Poet
Director
A Police Inspector Calls
Writer
Revenge
Writer
The Survivor
Writer
Proud Heritage
Production Design
Mercenaries' Trap
Director
Ciuleandra
Director
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Director
Proud Heritage
Director
The Punishment
Director
The Last Assault
Director
Orient Express
Director
The Ring
Director
Mirror
Director
Mirror
Writer
François Villon: The Maverick Poet
Executive Producer
Carol I
Director
Carol I
Writer
Point Zero
Director
The Gold Diggers
Director
Hot Days
Director
The Fight for Rome
Second Unit Director
Michael, the Dog That Sang
Director
The Punishment
Writer
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Second Unit Director of Photography
The Death Triangle
Director
The Death Triangle
Writer
High schoolers on alert
Producer
William the Conqueror
Director
The Crown of Fire
Director
Shells Have Never Spoken
Director
Shells Have Never Spoken
Cinematography
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Director
The Crown of Fire
Writer
The Gold Diggers
Writer
Ciuleandra
Writer
Orient Express
Writer
Last Night of Love
Director
Last Night of Love
Writer
For Motherland
Director
For Motherland
Writer
The Encounter
Director
15
Writer
Dangerous Turn
Director
Assistant Director
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {43}

1982-11-02 7

William the Conqueror

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is ...
Genre :Documentary, History, War, Action

Capitanul Andrei

1974-12-23 7.7

The Immortals

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream". ...
Genre :History, Action, War, Adventure, Thriller

Self (archive footage)

2019-12-22 8

30 Years of Democracy

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of po ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Old man

2013-10-04 4.917

Wolf

Wolf is a lonely boy who surrounds himself by a world that responds to his desires. He brings Clara, the girl he loves, inside this world but when he can't be sure if she is still real or become imagi ...
Genre :Drama

Tudor Miclovan

1972-10-29 7.5

With Clean Hands

A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters. ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime

Comisarul Moldovan

1981-06-14 7.3

The Duel

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime, Mystery

Tudor Moldovan

1978-11-12 8.2

Revenge

"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once ag ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Comisarul Miclovan

1973-05-26 8.2

The Last Bullet

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, C ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Tudor Moldovan

1974-04-01 7.8

A Police Inspector Calls

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Comisarul Moldovan

2008-04-10 6.2

The Survivor

After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russia ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Colonel von Eck

1972-01-24 7.1

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

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 ki ...
Genre :War, Drama

Andrei

0

Pistruiatul 2: Ascunzișuri

In a small provincial town, members of the Illegalist Movement are feverishly preparing for Liberation Day. The Fre Freckle, a cute 14-year-old boy, becomes the hero of these events, which are being l ...
Genre :Adventure

Carol I al României

2009-01-01 8.2

Carol I

The last days of the first Romanian king, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the tough decisions he had to make in the summer of 1914 in order to please both Romanian Parliament and his relative ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Major Andrei

1982-05-13 7.3

Mercenaries' Trap

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when ...
Genre :War, Adventure

Leonida Pascalopol

1972-03-20 6

Felix and Otilia

Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules. Love, inheritance games, decaying mansions, and f ...
Genre :Drama

1989-11-17 7

Proud Heritage

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks. ...
Genre :History

Procurorul Tudor Marian

1976-09-13 7.1

The Punishment

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. ...
Genre :Drama

Andrei Morudzi

2004-09-24 5.6

Orient Express

At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folk, due to h ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Tudor Andrei

1984-02-20 6.667

The Ring

Andrei is now a truck driver, but in one of his travels to Germany, he must become once again a boxer just for one night at the middleweight category. ...
Genre :Drama

Recruiting Centre Sentry

1976-12-20 7.143

The Redhead

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 t ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Maiorul Petria

1977-01-24 7

Accident

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with ano ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Lawyer / Major Nicolau

1980-03-30 5.3

Last Night of Love

In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news fr ...
Genre :Drama, War

Hall-Raffy

1973-12-28 0

The Revenge

Sequel of "The Sea Wolf". The writer van Weyden, who escaped from Captain Larsen's ship, follows the trail of his enemy for years in order to take revenge. He finds him as a man who has been mentally ...
Genre :Adventure

1979-10-01 7

Michael, the Dog That Sang

The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here he was picked up by the steward of the schooner McCambo, Dag Daughtry. Dag decided to sell the pure ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Gral. Averescu

1999-05-21 5

The Death Triangle

The Romanian army faces the German army in the epic battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, marking a turning point in World War 1. ...
Genre :War, History

santinela la Scoala de Corectie

1976-12-20 7.143

The Redhead

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 t ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

1994-02-11 6.4

Mirror

Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup agains ...
Genre :History, Drama

Hilarion de Bois Rose

2005-03-28 3.25

L'homme pressé

An antiques dealer misses out on some of life's pleasures because of his obsession with doing everything fast. ...
Genre :TV Movie

Marcus

1967-05-31 7.5

The Dacians

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay o ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Capt. Gorun

1990-05-28 6.2

The Crown of Fire

In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire. ...
Genre :Adventure, History, War

Mihai Coman

1976-01-01 4.5

Hot Days

In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the castin ...
Genre :Action

General Marinescu

1985-01-01 7.5

The Last Assault

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2. ...
Genre :War

Filip

1982-08-16 6.5

The Encounter

This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII. ...
Genre :Action, Romance, War

Ottoman Vizier Selim Pasha

1971-02-13 7.227

Michael the Brave

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, Tran ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

King Carol of Romania

1977-05-07 8.3

For Motherland

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. ...
Genre :History, War

Col. Andrei Petria

1983-04-25 7.3

Dangerous Turn

A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead man found found on the side of the road. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Mihai Vișan

1972-01-01 6

Love Begins on Friday

A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dobre

1979-01-01 6

Uncertain Roads

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 bridg ...
Genre :Drama

(archive footage)

1978-07-13 6.3

Expresul de Buftea

Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - the conversations of cinephile travelers on their wa ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2007-04-09 5

Agentul VIP

Genre :Talk

Andrei

1973-12-23 8.1

The Freckled Boy

During the times of the Second World War in Royal Romania, a street smart kid accidentally becomes part of an organization which will eventually decide the future of his country. ...
Genre :Family, Action & Adventure

Kapitän Raffy

1971-12-05 7.682

The Sea Wolf

Writer Humphrey van Weyden is thrown overboard in a shipwreck in the Bay of San Francisco, and is rescued by the seal-hunting schooner 'Ghost' under the command of the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Self

1974-11-19 6.5

3 nach 9

Genre :Talk