Draga Olteanu Matei

AKA: Draga Olteanu, Драга Олтяну Матей, Драга Олтяну-Матей

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1933-10-24

Bucureşti, Romania

Biography

Crew Roles

The Enchanted Grove

Writer

Cucoana Chirița

Screenplay

Intemperance

Screenplay

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {61}

Varga's wife

1963-02-11 6

Lupeni 29

Based on true events. In the Romanian town of Lupeni August 5, 1929, driven to despair by hard labor conditions miners under the leadership of Communists organized a strike. The miners demanded higher ...

Genre :Drama

1968-02-05 7.5

Împușcături pe portativ

In this cinematographic variety show, the strong point is the ballet: inventive, original, modern, pleasant, filmed with a great power of suggestion by the cinematographer Alexandru Întorsureanu, usin ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Ana Varga

1966-12-26 7.7

Golgotha

Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make the ...

Genre :Drama, History

Old Woman

1985-03-04 6.3

The Bet

Based on a 19th century tale, this self-referential fantasy, complete with musical and animated interludes plus a cast of fairytale characters, tells the story of a bet between an old man and a fairy ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, Music

Mother Superior

1955-01-01 6

Blanca

Adaptation after Fat Frumos din tei by Mihai Eminescu ...

Genre :

Cucoana Emilia

1980-01-01 5.938

The Enchanted Grove

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to ta ...

Genre :Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Veta

1979-02-05 7.938

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the ...

Genre :Comedy

Eleonora

1982-01-01 7.5

Bucharest Identity Card

A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to " ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-01-01 8

Cadavrul viu

Genre :Drama

Varvara

1975-01-09 7.2

Autumn of the Goslings

The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by most of th ...

Genre :Comedy

Saveta

1965-05-11 7

You Look Wild

Genre :Drama

1962-01-23 5.6

A Bomb Was Stolen

A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nucle ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy

Eleonora Popescu

1985-10-28 8.5

Repeated Wedding

This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

2005-07-11 8.5

Gaițele

Provincial atmosphere. The conflicts, customs and morals of a family of merchants from Craiova unwittingly destroy the love and even the life of a vulnerable young girl through her naivety and romanti ...

Genre :Comedy

Chirița

1986-05-11 8.2

Cucoana Chirița

The Bârzoi manor comes back to life when the lady of the house, Chirița, sends news that she will be soon coming back from Paris. As the City of Light has changed her views on the world, the family an ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Chirița

1988-12-12 8.2

Chirița în Iași

Genre :Comedy

1996-01-01 7.8

Dănilă Prepeleac

It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged ...

Genre :Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy

1973-07-01 6.4

The Poseidon Explosion

A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city ...

Genre :Drama, Action

carciumareasa Vestemeanca

1972-12-11 7

Bariera

In 1942, Nea' Vitu is in trouble with his children: a son is fascinated by the world of war profiteers, and the daughter is going around with the speculator "Treispemii" (Dan Nutu). On the evening of ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Responsabila

1975-02-17 6.4

Filip the Kind

Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption. ...

Genre :Drama

1964-01-06 8

Pisica de mare

The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a ...

Genre :Comedy

1966-04-21 7.7

The Outlaws

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 st ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, History

Catița

1960-10-20 6.4

The Thirst

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform. ...

Genre :Drama

Midwife Irina

1975-01-06 7.7

Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475

In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History, War

1960-03-01 7.4

Telegrams

Geared more for the home crowd with a good knowledge of their own history, this Romanian political comedy takes place at the turn of the 20th century, when two opposing factions are going at each othe ...

Genre :Comedy

1968-04-23 6.8

The Revenge of the Outlaws

Second 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 s ...

Genre :History, Action

1963-01-01 5.5

A Midsummer Day's Smile

Fanita, a young man desirous to earn money as a result of personals initiatives, will fail in all these businesses , is ultimately convinced to enter in the Agricultural Production Comradeship or Comm ...

Genre :Comedy

1966-06-08 6.8

The Uprising

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherou ...

Genre :History, Drama

1971-01-01 6.8

The Making of the World

Around the nationalization in 1948, a worker's daughter, as a student, is attracted by the social life offered by a breed horse owner. The relationship will sour by the cruelty with which he kills th ...

Genre :Drama

Ghicitoarea Raluca

1974-06-05 7.5

The Martens Brothers

Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. Ionut is the youngest son of Commissar Jder, a trusted man of Stephen the Great. He falls in love with Nasta, the d ...

Genre :History

Lăcrămioara

1972-04-17 7.077

Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family

The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates. ...

Genre :Comedy

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

Varvara

1977-09-10 7

Iarna bobocilor

Sequel of "Toamna bobocilor". Two years have passed since the first meeting with our heroes and something strange happened in Viisoara: the men disappeared! Because they were commanded by a woman, the ...

Genre :Comedy

Gypsy

1978-01-16 7

Operation 'The Bus'

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 p ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1985-01-01 8

Promisses

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life. ...

Genre :Comedy

Nurse Ana

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

Luța

1981-02-09 8

Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector

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. ...

Genre :History, Action, Drama

Luța

1981-09-02 8.1

Iancu Jianu, Outlaw

The movie is set in 1788-1843, a tumultuous era for Walla Wallachia, when the Phanariot regime was exercising its power over the people. In a world marked by oppression, the young Iancu Jianu becomes ...

Genre :Adventure, History

1999-11-09 5.8

The Famous Paparazzo

A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1968-03-12 7

The Kidnapping of the Maidens

In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

1966-02-14 4

White Trial

Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend. Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen Barbu. ...

Genre :Drama

Ana Varga

1961-01-01 6.3

A World Wihout Sky

A movie about miner strikes in 1292 Jiu Valley. It is made from re-cutting and combining two previous movies, "Lupeni '29" and "Golgota", that were shot much earlier. ...

Genre :Drama

Rafira

1971-09-20 7

The Brothers

Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization. ...

Genre :Drama

1979-01-01 8

The Man in the Overcoat

Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad? ...

Genre :Action

Midwife

1975-06-24 7

Postcards with Wildflowers

In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local gir ...

Genre :Drama

Păuna Varlam

1975-12-15 4.8

Intemperance

A war widower with two kids marries a rich tanner. Her greed tears the family apart, resulting in a lot of misfortune. Based on "Hiena" novel by Petru Vintilă. ...

Genre :

1969-12-02 4

Silent Friends

Two dogs and a duck are saving a family. ...

Genre :Drama

1976-01-01 6.7

The Last Night of Loneliness

The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village. ...

Genre :Drama

Frosinica

1976-12-27 3.7

Serenade for the 12th Floor

Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Haiduc

1972-03-21 4.5

Because They Are in Love

A judge falls in love with a married woman. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1966-01-09 6.7

The Teacher's Correspondence

A subpoena on perception turns the life of a teacher upside down when he finds himself taxed for what he never even had: two buffalo. Because of the aberrant bureaucracy, he can't even get rid of the ...

Genre :Comedy

Typist

1976-06-07 5.7

The Court Adjourns the Sentencing

A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident. ...

Genre :Drama

1978-01-01 7.3

Taste and Color of Happiness

A nonconformist engineer challenges some stereotypical negative communist characters. ...

Genre :Drama

Frusina

1978-12-11 6.7

Together Again

An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it. ...

Genre :Drama

Rodovica

1976-11-22 5.8

Grandpa and Two Young Offenders

A police officer is investigating the disappearance of a colleague's young boy. His key seems to be the "dark skinned" friend of the boy about whom nobody cares, including the police. ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

1967-06-19 7

The Major and Death

A police major is investigating a gangster. ...

Genre :Thriller, Action

1981-09-21 6.2

Ana and the Thief

A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him. ...

Genre :Drama

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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

Doamna Rozeanu

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. ...