Dorel Vișan

On a garbage dump, people try to make a living in the poorest of conditions.

Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian...

A single mother's struggle to support her child leads her into the surreal netherworld of illegal sexual enterprises, with her finally ending up in...

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama....

Communist activists have to let out steam due to increased pressure in their professional life.

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be...

All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.

Inspired by a true story, the film presents a TV reporter's journalistic investigation into alleged American "flying prisons" in Romania. Through a...

In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis....

The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is...

In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him...

In Communist Romania, an Orthodox priest, ex-political prisoner, becomes the only voice that can be heard in an oppressive silence. His sermons...

A construction site is set up next to a colony of forest workers. Murgu, a worker on the construction site, and Maria, a girl raised by foresters who...

Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei...

A parable about honor and true character, inspired by the reality of the 18th century. Constantin Brâncoveanu preferred to be beheaded in...

When a political turmoil brings a Romanian prosecutor into the spotlight, she is offered the position of attorney general.

Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her...

Story of a typical Romanian couple in crisis.

Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime...

Inspired by Lucian Blaga's eponymous dramatic work written in 1927, the story follows the life of the legendary master Manole and his team of...

In a shabby apartment somewhere in Romania, a man obsessively zap between his TV channels despite the wife's complaints and nagging. But where his...

Three overlapping stories take place over the course of a week in Bucharest, with characters whose life paths intersect and overlap; often...

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

This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned...

In order to make a living, old Nica turns her country house into an anemic, bankrupt "pension". Her only joys are her dog's chirping and the TV news...

In post-communist Romania, young prosecutor Dumitru Costa is sent to investigate a miner's suspicious death in the Jiu Valley. As he delves deeper,...

In a farmers’ cooperative in a village on the plains, the cooperative’s president rules with an iron fist, ably assisted by his sycophantic...

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.

This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never...

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an...

Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu.

Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to...

The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.

This is a film about love, crime of passion, revenge, happening in the Romanian countryside, late XIX century.

The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her.

Love story of 2 high school students with different social standards, Ioana and Alexandru. They are to form a couple with all the social and familial...

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity,...

Irina is married with a sea captain, that is away for the better part of the year. She is missing his company, so she is vulnerable to the advances...

Mihu and Filimon, two friends, are in love with the same girl, Carolina. Their rivalry takes the form of a bet. The girl knows that she is the one...

When a young girl is found dead in a Transylvanian village, a police investigator and his assistant arrive to reconstruct the mysterious events...

In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later...

Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to lower the financial deficit of his company. As the...

Hristea, a surgeon, spends his holidays at the seaside. While on the beach his belongings are stolen. The surgeon tells the policeman that the thief...

A collective farm president is deserted by his bride 2 days after the wedding. A comedic radiography of village life.

Love story between two engineers in the Bucharest subway system construction site.

Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale...

A nonconformist engineer challenges some stereotypical negative communist characters.

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 metaphor film, in which a group a pupils are going out on a trip. There are various happenings in which adults are interpreting in different ways...

This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly...

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...

Ship "Saturn" prepares to return home from the American west coast. The ship is damaged at a very bad time, when a severe storm comes their way, they...

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a...

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.

A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix...

A Romanian architect who married abroad reunites with his birthplace, with those he met, with the women he loved, with the echoes of what happened...

A compassionate fiction-documentary about an intelligent but handicapped boy who struggles to stand up against an overprotective father and find his...

The autopsy of a deceased girl finds that the victim had died long before the accident. Taking over the case, "Grandpa" and his assistant,...

Panoramic life of a Moldovan village in the second half of the twentieth century.

Several decades after the collapse of the communist system, nostalgia for the former regime has reached unimaginable proportions in almost all former...

The story of the film is inspired by Camil Petrescu's novel, The Last Night of Love, The First Night of War. The lives of two friends, intellectuals,...