Emilia Dobrin Movies

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened.

Sergiu, Laura and Smache are three high school graduates who make plans for the future. An idyll is born between Sergiu and Laura, but due to the opposition of the girl's parents and the fact that the young man is recruited, she will marry someone else. After...

Portrait of a Romanian bourgeois family.

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggl...

The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this question of heritage is connected to the name she shares with her grandmother, who was born into a traditional Arom...

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.

In this allegorical fairy-tale, peaceful and warlike knights vie for the hand of a beautiful princess, while a discussion of disco goes on around them. She favors a peaceful knight, while her father and his advisors like the ones carrying around a lot of weapo...

In Alexandru Tatos’s debut film, a young urologist is assigned to a town hospital with no urology ward and keeps bumping up against his superiors because of both ethical and medical problems.

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communi...

The search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman.

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

After surviving a shipwreck in the Caribbean, a captain returns home burdened by guilt and haunted by the past. Given command a ship bound for Singapore, he is treated with suspicion and hostility by his new crew.

Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts.

After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"

Corrupt ex-communist politicians in 90s Romania rule the country, with younger politicians vying to take their place.

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.

Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.

This film is about a functional alcoholic, who works as a lathe operator in a factory and is mentoring a young man.