Remus Margineanu Movies
- 1994
This Romanian family drama examines a modern family in turmoil as it is ripped asunder by social and economic problems caused by the demise of Communism. The film is set in a grim little burg on the Danube, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest. Fane, the main character, has just been fired from his factory job. He cannot find work, so begins to hit the bars. He also hangs out with his friends, former freedom fighters, out in the country. Fane's teenage daughter Vali wants to study in Bucharest; she works nights and saves her money. Nilu, his youngest son, has just joined a gang. The eldest brother Viorel discovers that Vali is earning money by hooking in a trashy bar, he destroys the place. He is sent to jail. Vali and Nilu take off for the capital. Fane tries to organize a strike against the factory bosses. The results are tragic. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Remus Margineanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, (more)
- 1983
In this melodramatic tale of adultery and war, a former policeman returns to the village in which he grew up, only to find that the woman he had loved as a young man is now married to a simple but honest peasant. Although he marries someone else, the ex-policeman starts a love affair with his old flame -- only interrupted when the conflagration of World War I calls both him and her husband off to battle. While at the front, the two men fight near each other and the peasant shows his innate selflessness when he sacrifices his own life to save that of his supposed friend -- an act that will have future consequences. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Remus Margineanu, Maria Ploae, (more)
- 1981
In the early 19th century the Rumanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "phalansteries" in Rumania. The film dramatizes the origins and demise of this effort, called the "Scaieni Phalanstery (the term is derived from "phalanx" and "monastery"). Among the socio-political commentary that is conveyed throughout, there is an important collusion between the army and the wealthy landowners of the time, and as the film points out in its own way, neither of these groups has ever been convicted of socialist/utopian tendencies. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adrian Pintea, Liviu Ciulei, (more)
