Ion Besoiu

Born: 1931-03-11

He was born in Sibiu in 1931 and graduated the city's Theater and Music Academy. After making his debut in 1957, he played for 16 years at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. He then moved to Bucharest, where he played at the Bulandra Theatre. He later served for 12 years as director of this well-known theatre.


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Subspecies

as Doctor
Released: 1991-08-08

Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the...

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The Dacians

as dublaj voce Severus
Released: 1967-05-31

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in...

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The Duel

as Zăvoianu
Released: 1981-06-14

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard...

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Michael the Brave

as Sigismund Báthory
Released: 1971-02-13

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai...

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The Immortals

as Costea
Released: 1974-12-23

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai...

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Loverboy

as Bunicul
Released: 2011-05-18

Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of...

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Mirror

as uncredited
Released: 1994-02-11

Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the...

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Astray

as Dinescu
Released: 1978-01-01

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

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Revenge

as Zavoianu
Released: 1978-11-12

"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar...

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Blackmail

as uncredited
Released: 1981-02-23

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later...

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Mercenaries' Trap

as Cpt. Resz Lemeni
Released: 1982-05-13

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned...

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Bariera

as pictorul Radulescu
Released: 1972-12-11

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The Thirst

as Baniciu
Released: 1960-10-20

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

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Bucharest Non-Stop

as Batran
Released: 2015-06-06

"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More...

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Ciprian Porumbescu

as Ioan Slavici
Released: 1973-04-19

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

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The Recruitment

as Martin
Released: 1985-01-01

Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of...

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Tudor

as Zoican
Released: 1963-11-18

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social...

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The Last Bullet

as secretar de partid
Released: 1973-05-26

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).

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White Gate

as Profesorul Panait
Released: 2014-06-06

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

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The Storm

as Vicu
Released: 1960-06-08

The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until...

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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

as Parintele Ioan
Released: 1972-01-24

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the...

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The Soimaresti Clan

as Ştefan Tomşa
Released: 1965-04-12

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a...

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Căruța cu mere

as Popa Șoimu
Released: 1983-10-24

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of...

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The Turquoise Necklace

as prințul Bibescu
Released: 1986-03-03

5th movie in the "Margelatu" series

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Last Night of Love

as Colonel Constantinescu
Released: 1980-03-30

In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor...

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Mad Forest

as Prof. Turtulă
Released: 1982-01-01

A young communist returns to a small provincial town.

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Cantemir

as De Syre
Released: 1975-06-11

Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes...

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Jacob

as uncredited
Released: 1988-10-03

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law,...

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The Bone Srewn Road

as uncredited
Released: 1980-05-19

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

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Eagle 101

as Luca Nicolae
Released: 1957-08-21

A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents...

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The Convoy

as Colțoiu
Released: 1981-08-21

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Strange Agent

as Simion
Released: 1974-11-04

This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia”...

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Păcală

as Thieves Leader
Released: 1974-01-09

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything...

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The Outlaws

as Amza
Released: 1966-04-21

First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of...

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François Villon: The Maverick Poet

as Poetul Fredet
Released: 1987-01-01

The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet,...

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Merriment Ward

as Alexandru Pietraru
Released: 1964-10-12

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

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Proud Heritage

as uncredited
Released: 1989-11-17

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a...

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Poor Ioanide

as colonelul Remus Gavrilcea
Released: 1980-04-28

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The Uprising

as Grigore Iuga
Released: 1966-06-08

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the...

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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

as Ion Belciug
Released: 1980-04-14

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion...

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Ashes and Blood

as Timos
Released: 2009-09-09

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille...

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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

as Vornicescu
Released: 1971-07-26

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

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Michael, the Dog That Sang

as Del Mar
Released: 1979-10-01

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The Romanian Musketeer

as Knight Desiree
Released: 1975-10-13

During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise...

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The Last Assault

as Col. Câmpeanu
Released: 1985-01-01

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.

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The Mysteries of Bucharest

as domnitorul Gheorghe Bibescu
Released: 1983-09-12

The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the...

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Your Part of the Blame

as Bejan
Released: 1963-11-28

This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He...

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Dangerous Turn

as Sorin Apostolescu
Released: 1983-04-25

A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of...

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A Police Inspector Calls

as Vișan Năvodeanu
Released: 1974-04-01

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and...

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Forest Fruit

as Clovică
Released: 1983-11-21

The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love...

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The Cyanide and the Raindrop

as Dr. Florian
Released: 1978-09-25

Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.

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Horea

as Arpad
Released: 1984-11-05

Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.

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The Actor and the Savages

as Guță Popescu
Released: 1975-01-20

Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor...

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Secretul lui Nemesis

as Virgil Cocean
Released: 1987-11-02

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Doctor Poenaru

as uncredited
Released: 1978-05-22

In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there...

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Everything is Paid

as Prince Bibescu
Released: 1987-12-12

Sixth "Margelatu" movie

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The Snowstorm

as Adam
Released: 1973-11-19

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

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Crew for Singapore

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

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At the Crossroads of Great Storms

as Prince Bibescu
Released: 1980-12-08

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its...

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Captain's Ion Arrow

as Andrei
Released: 1973-09-20

In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow...

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The Power and The Truth

as Duma
Released: 1972-02-15

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

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Amongst the Green Hills

as Racolțea
Released: 1971-01-01

Here the author makes a movie after his own novel. Following 3 murders, the investigations will...

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The Castle of the Condemned

as uncredited
Released: 1970-05-04

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to...

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Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor

as uncredited
Released: 1966-02-08

Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate,...

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The Silver Mask

as domnitorul Gheorghe Bibescu
Released: 1985-05-25

Margelatu has to clear his name.

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Shootings Under the Moonlight

as Coman
Released: 1977-12-12

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance...

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Chess to the King

as Cpt. Grigoraș
Released: 1966-01-26

When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a...

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Mult mai de preț e iubirea

as Mitrică
Released: 1982-01-01

A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the...

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I Hope to See You Again

as Director
Released: 1985-01-01

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend...

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Full Sail

as Anton Lupan
First aired: 1977-03-01

Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous...

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