Ernest Maftei Movies

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...

Two dogs and a duck are saving a family.

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...

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...

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

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...

First part of a series of five famous children novels. Adventures of a group of kids in a trip to explore a cave, where they have some surprises.

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...

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.

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

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

A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian...

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

Andrei Blaier's film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of...

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

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...

A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she...