George Alexandru Movies
- 2002
Released from prison only to fall back once again into a bleak haze of murderous rage, country butcher Dumitru's (Dan Condurache) life has become a whirling cesspool of vodka, gambling, and killing. Following the rape of a woman whom he won in a poker game, Dumitru returns home to discover his wife has become pregnant by another man, setting off the trigger for an unending and inescapable spree of debauchery and death. Attempting to start his life anew as a butcher in another town, Dumitru seems doomed to repeat his past, though, just as all hope seems lost, it appears that a higher power has other things in store for the murderer who has lost his will to live. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dan Condurache, Ana Ciontea, (more)
- 1994
This spritely Romanian drama centers around the life of a 17-year-old boy living in a culturally mixed town beside the Danube in the latter 19th century. The town is called Braila; it is filled with an interesting mixture of Greeks, Turks, and Romanians; they have lived together for years. Young Dragomir, the film's protagonist, is a vain fellow who for years has observed his free-spirited mother and sister as they played in large orgies. His father and older brother were never there to witness the shenanigans. When the father did return, he would often beat his wife and daughter. After one such beating, his mother lost an eye. For revenge, Drogomire and his sister Kyra hire a hitman to kill their father and older brother. Only the brother gets murdered. Fearing for their lives, the little family leaves town. They are soon separated. Kyra is sold into prostitution and Dragomir finds himself drawn to Codin, a dashing, charismatic fellow who is also a serial killer. The two young men get involved although it is not clear whether they were sexually linked. They consider themselves "blood brothers." ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Frigyes Funtek, Tora Vasilescu, (more)
- 1993
In Romania, as in other communist countries, certain kinds of intellectuals were adopted in a fashion resembling the way people adopt house pets. They were fed, housed, and cossetted without any regard for their capacity to perform any useful function. In this movie, Stefan Sirbu (Claudiu Beont) is such an intellectual, a novelist who actually wrote a pretty decent first novel. He has been working on his next novel for quite a few years since then. Rather, he has been having writer's block on his next novel, and has been colorfully anguishing about that. No matter: the government feeds him anyway. So he sits around his apartment wearing only his underwear, being beastly to his wife and daughter, and carrying on an affair. After the fall of the Ceausescu government, however, he is no longer cherished and cossetted. Somehow he manages to throw off the rest of his clothing, and receives fresh inspiration to write, despite (or perhaps because of) his changed circumstances.. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Claudiu Bleont, Ruxandra Bucescu, (more)
- 1992
Lucian Pintilie wrote this dramatic tale of a woman who travels through Romania on a journey to bury her father's ashes, while the countryside lapses into chaos during the final days of the Ceausescu regime. ~ Nicole Gagne, Rovi
- Starring:
- Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, (more)
- 1989
In this basically uneventful film, a coach for a pentathalon team yells, shouts and cajoles to get them ready for competition. While the team is competing, he has a heart attack. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mihai Stan, George Alexandru, (more)
- 1986
Horia Lazar (George Alexander) is an inexperienced young lieutenant pressed into active service in World War II in this historical adventure saga. When he leads his platoon to victory by disobeying orders, he wins the respect of the troops and the top brass. Horia returns as a hero to his hometown that was saved by his actions at the Battle of Budapest. He then is assigned to capture a group of S.S. troops who barricade themselves in a remote castle in the woods at the end of the war. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- George Alexandru, Anda Onesa, (more)
