Gheorghe Dinica Movies

An athlete recalls his troubled youth while helping to coach a talented but headstrong youngster in this drama from Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu. Miklos Dongo (Miklos Zoltan Hajdu) is a world class gymnast who competed in the Olympics before taking on his current career as a performer with Cirque du Soleil. Miklos has been hired to help coach some contenders for the Canadian Olympic team, and finds himself working with Kyle Manjak (Kyle Shewfelt), an unusually talented young man whose mood swings make him difficult to work with. As Miklos tries to help Kyle focus his talents and come to terms with his demons, he finds himself frequently looking back on his own early career as a gymnast in Hungary -- his brutal coach Puma (Gheorghe Dinica), his domineering parents (Andor Lukats and Oana Pellea), and the grim regimen that led him to run away from home to join an acrobatics troupe. Coaching brings some of Miklos's personal issues back to the surface and he is confronted by the violent side of his nature while training Kyle. Miklos Zoltan Hajdu, who plays Miklos Dongo, is the brother of director Szabolcs Hajdu as well as an Olympic-class gymnast; he's played as a younger man by Orion Radies and Silas Radies. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Between 1965 and 1989, Nicolae Ceausescu was the absolute dictator of Romania, and under his regime some 1,700 people were employed in the business of torturing political dissidents. After Ceausescu's rule came to an end in 1989 (following a coup that led to the dictator's execution), only one man who participated in Ceausescu's crimes against his people, Franz Tander, was willing to come forward and tell the truth about his horrific deeds. This film, based on a novel by Doina Jela, offers a fictionalized version of Tander's efforts to clear his conscience, and the world's unexpectedly blasé reaction to his statements. A journalist (Ioana Macaria) and an academic who is an authority on political torture (Radu Beligan) visit the rural home of Frant Tandara (Gheorghe Dinica), who was a willing participant in the barbarous acts of Romania's Communist leadership and wishes to tell his story for the record. However, as Tandara tries to relate his horrific tales of torture and mayhem, one thing or another keeps stopping him -- from a faulty tape recorder to Tandara's wife (Coca Bloos), who believes such things should be left in the past -- and he discovers that hardly anyone seems especially interested in learning the truth about his nation's awful legacy. However, in time Tandara finds someone is interested in his crimes after all -- his son, who leads a group of over-zealous patriots who want to execute him for his crimes against the people. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Romania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and poverty. Now, their problem is mostly poverty - and plenty of it. In this grim comedy (to call it a black comedy would be to paint too perky a picture of it), Vasile (Gheorghe Dinica)has a wife whom he's fond of, and a mistress, whom he's fonder of. He manages a nearly abandoned movie theater, and makes just about nothing doing it. When his wife announces she's pregnant, he nearly goes frantic trying to find money to get her an abortion. However, what truly sends him over the edge is when his mistress decides to become a prostitute because, after all, the money is good. These two situations send him straight to the loony bin, and when he gets out, he discovers that his wife has rented their apartment to pornographic filmmakers, and guess who's starring in them? ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Two decades of dedicated service to his rural populace have convinced the people affected by the doctor's clinic to join him in his crusade for political justice in this Rumanian film. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Death stalks a Rumanian patriot who killed a man during a 1907 uprising. After spending 10 years in prison for this crime, he finds his wife has remarried and his lands have been confiscated. He serves in World War I and returns to his beloved mountains to try to live peaceably, but official suspicion remains, and he is pursued by the police for crimes committed by others. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Director Sergiu Nicolaescu also stars in this film about a police inspector in Rumania who is sent to discover the truth about a prison massacre of communists by a visiting delegation of fascist dignitaries. The inspector makes the mistake of caring more about the truth and the injustice of the massacre than the genuine wishes of his bosses, and pays for his dedication with his life. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this monumental Rumanian film, a large family and its many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. This movie is based on a very long and popular novel by George Calmescu, and is similar in some ways to England's BBC television series, The Forsythe Saga, based on Galsworthy's books. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge. In one story, a poor young man is disappointed in love as his girl chooses lucre over love in selecting a mate. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi