Películas de Octavian Cotescu

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...

In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake...

This is about the lives of three sisters during the second World War in Romania. Based on the homonymous play by Horia Lovinescu.

The film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers'...

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...

When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but...

A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.

The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who...

The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled...

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

In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later...

In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family...

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,...

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.

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...

Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls.

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...

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering...

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...

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud...

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity,...

Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer.

In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...

A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and...

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

Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.

Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim.

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in...

Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.

This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in...

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.

A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.

A psychological movie about the life of three sisters in a Romanian village.

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

A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

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...

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the...

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

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...

During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.

A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.

A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.

A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.

At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.

Collection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made.