Geo Saizescu
Geo Saizescu (14 November 1932 – 23 September 2013) was a Romanian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in 22 films between 1963 and 2009 and directed 16 films between 1956 and 2012. He was born in Prisăceaua, Mehedinți County in 1932, the twelfth child of his parents; his father was a notary in the village. After his secondary studies at the Traian High School in Turnu Severin, he studied at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in Bucharest, film directing department, graduating in 1957. He made his directorial debut in 1956 with the film Aventurile bravului soldat Svejk; in 1958 he wrote the script and directed the film Doi vecini [ro]. In 2002 he was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank. He died at the age of 80 in Bucharest and was buried in the cemetery at Cernica Monastery [ro], in nearby Pantelimon. Saizescu was the founder of the Faculty of Arts at the Hyperion University [ro] in Bucharest; the faculty now bears his name. His son, Cătălin Saizescu [ro] (born in 1976) is an actor, film director, and producer.
The Secret of Bacchus
as Ieronim StâncăVictor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming...
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Bucharest Identity Card
as AvocatulA provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on...
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Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
as The BizarroThe main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in...
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A Bomb Was Stolen
as uncreditedA dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism...
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Păcală
as The JudgePacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything...
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Căruța cu mere
as PretorRomania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of...
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Your Part of the Blame
as The TenorThis movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He...
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Blackmail
as SimionA gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later...
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The Migrant Birds Are Coming
as Foto BujorIn the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With...
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Harababura
as uncreditedA few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet...
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On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube
as Teodor 'Bobby' DavidescuThe search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman.
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Together Again
as LambruAn young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is...
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The Extras
as uncreditedAfter 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to...
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The Second Fall of Constantinople
as VasiliadeA romanian comedy from 1994
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Escapada
as uncreditedA bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting...
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