Ernest Maftei Movies

Based on the story of the same name by Marin Preda. The movie tells about the struggle of poor peasants against the rural rich for the creation of...

In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on.

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an...

Rumania's entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Bărăganului. The title translates as Fools of...

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.

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill communist prisoners under the pretext of attempted...

An old man and an old woman each have a girl. Influenced by old woaman, the old man compared to banish their home, and it goes in the world. Because...

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the...

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman...

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of...

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination,...

The movie is about the historic moment in which the PNȚ political party has attempted to form a government in exile to counteract the Petru...

A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.

An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the...

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...

It is 1944, german troops are in retreat. These troops were using a communication station and a cypher. The mission is to acquire the cypher...