Cornel Scripcaru Movies
- 1998
Romanian director Lucian Pintilie helmed this French-Romanian drama that opens on the outskirts of Budapest. Dimitri, aka Mitou (Costel Cascaval) raises pigs for a living, but he's due to begin two years of military service the next day. Clad in hot pants, waitress Elena, aka Norica (Dorina Chiriac) matches Mitou in knocking back shots of vodka. Although Norica is engaged to marry Gili, owner of the rundown roadside sausage stand where she works, she accompanies Mitou to his spare apartment. Resentful of his family and obsessed with Norica, the stubborn, headstrong Mitou is uncompromising and ready for a final showdown with authority figures. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, (more)
- 1994
A beautiful devil-girl tires of torturing the souls of the damned and so busts out of hell to visit the mortal plane. Finding it nearly as debauched and wicked as her home, the girl decides to take care of the villainous and evil before they get down to the Devil's domain. Soon the blood begins flowing like sacramental wine. During an accident she is seriously wounded, and a kindly young doctor helps her recover and as he does, she cannot help but fall in love with him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1994
A Romanian soldier must choose between family loyalty and political allegiance in this disturbing Romanian drama set in 1925. Capt. Petri Dumitriu has been reassigned to a lonely outpost on the Danube after his wife Marie Therese Von Debretsy refuses the advances of a highly ranked general. On the Danube, Dumitriu's life is thrown into turmoil after Romanian soldiers are brutally slain in an ambush by Macedonian bandits. In retaliation, Dumitriu is ordered to execute the innocent local Bulgarians who work in his family's garden. Marie Therese is appalled and Dumitriu must make a terribly painful decision. (aka Un Ete Inoubliable) ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont, (more)
