Ernest Maftei Movies

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Old man John Tarwater and young lawyer Elam Harnish, gripped by the "gold fever" leave for Alaska, embarking on the adventure of a new hard and...

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...

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.

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...

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

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination,...

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

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

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

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

It is 1944, german troops are in retreat. These troops were using a communication station and a cypher. The mission is to acquire the cypher...

The movie is about the historic moment in which the PNȚ political party has attempted to form a government in exile to counteract the Petru...

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...

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...

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

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine...

Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why...

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...