Gheorghe Visu Movies
- 2004
In this short film by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, a man named Liviu wakes up one morning from a disturbing dream that he cannot remember. All he knows of his nighttime vision is that it has changed his view of the world, and has perhaps coincided with the birth of his child. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
- 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)
- 1993
Along the Black Sea coast, we see a man and a woman arguing. They are apparently vacationers. Before long, the man has gotten back into their car and driven off, stranding the woman in a remote area. She hitches a ride with a delivery truck driver. At one of his stops, she gets off his truck to go to get some water. When the driver comes back to his truck and sees her gone, he assumes she has found another ride, and leave her. Once again, she is stranded. This time, the location is a lighthouse. She and the keeper have no recourse but to become acquainted, and for the next few days, that is what they do. Eventually, the man who left her in the lurch comes back to look for her, and finds her at the lighthouse. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gheorghe Visu
- 1991
Not long after World War I, the politicians are back to business as usual in the lovely city of Bucharest. In this political melodrama, a journalist has his sights set on one of these politicians and hopes to get his paper to expose him as the scoundrel he is. However, when the politician and his allies get wind of the investigation, things become very difficult for him. In a parallel story, a sensitive poet has returned from serving in the war and has fallen in love with a very wealthy woman. He has no hope of getting anywhere with her, as he is desperately poor. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adrian Pintea, Gheorghe Visu, (more)
- 1984
Hampered by a low-budget, director Mircea Veroiu has still created an effective black-and-white film on the resistance movement in Romania in 1934. The story focuses on the exploits of Sarka (Gheorghe Visu), a circus performer, and Horatio (Claudio Bleont), a student, as they join forces to fight rising fascism in Romania -- but many viewers would read parallels to the situation in the country in the early 1980s (several years before the bloody dictator Ceausescu was ousted from his military rule and executed). Sarka and Horatio are shown risking life and limb; at one point, they hide submerged in a water tower to escape detection by Nazi soldiers, and at another point, Sarka is sprung from jail by one of his courageous circus friends. Eventually, Sarka and Horatio become separated, and although it might be easier for at least one to survive on his own, the odds against both surviving are very low indeed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Claudiu Bleont, Gheorghe Visu, (more)
- 1983
When a carpenter is unjustly accused of stealing a radio and some belongings on a beach, rather than justice prevailing as it should, a neurotic surgeon who saw the actual theft decides to testify against the carpenter and get him thrown in jail -- he just does not like the man. The worst happens, and the carpenter serves his time behind bars, yet even when he gets out of prison, the surgeon unrelentingly goes after him. Viewers who have paid bad carpenters might sympathize, but otherwise, the surgeon's behavior over a minor theft and an innocent man makes one wonder how he passed certification to cut people open. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Victor Rebengiuc, Marin Moraru, (more)
- 1981
A commuter who rides the train to his factory job every day happens to be conned, along with everyone else on the train, by a couple posing as a bride and groom who are newly married. The kindly people on the train give money to the fake couple, as an act of spontaneous generosity. Meanwhile, the factory worker finds out it was a con when he sees the "bride" on the train again, and she avoids him. In fact, she decides to avoid the whole business and sets to work as a waitress - she never did like her earlier existence. The factory worker eventually finds her in the restaurant after searching far and wide, for he has fallen in love with the woman. He also discovers that her ex-partner is working in a circus as a death-defying motorcyclist - a job that has a certain edge over work in the factory. Just when things were looking hopeful, the woman disappears from her waitressing job and the worker sets out again to find her on the trains, anxious to make an honest bride of her himself. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gheorghe Visu, Aurora Leonte, (more)
