Florin Piersic, Jr. Movies
Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II looms ominously on the horizon. When the 70-year-old scholar is struck by lightning, his age begins to reverse as his mind grows infinitely more brilliant. Now determined to understand the origins of language and consciousness, the fugitive professor leads authorities on a wild chase through Romania, Switzerland, Malta, and India. Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, and Marcel Iures star in an ambitious low-budget drama trumpeted by Zoetrope as a "return to personal filmmaking" for the revered Godfather director. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, (more)
- 2003
Goran Rebic's drama Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunarea stars Robert Stadlober as Bruno, a young man who is attempting to grant his mother's dying wish. He convinces a sailor named Franz (Otto Sander) to take him out to sea so that she can be buried in the water. Bruno has selected Franz because he believes that Franz may be his father. As the two form a bond, they pick up a series of passengers, including an addict named Matilda (Annabelle Mandeng), who ends up becoming involved with a Romanian immigrant (Florin Piersic Jr.), who is desperate to stay in his new country. The film was screened at the 2003 San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Otto Sander, Robert Stadlober, (more)
- 1999
The first feature film of Benoit Peeters is a mystery drama involving a young director, an exiled writer, and the woman who comes between them. Virgil Iancu (Florin Piersic) is a Romanian director who arrives in Paris to make a documentary about Constantin Dolinescu (Mihai Dinvale), a famous dissident writer who fled to France in 1987 and had begun to make a film before disappearing without a trace. For his research, Virgil interviews several people and collects various documents. All this evidence plus the extracts from the two versions of the unfinished film of the exiled writer lead him to believe that the man had a tormented character. Dolinescu also seems to have encountered several problems with his film project. The meeting of Virgil Iancu with an actress from Dolinescu's unfinished film and finally Dolinescu himself reveal not only the mystery surrounding Dolinescu but also the motive behind the young man's quest and the close links which bind him to the writer. Le Dernier Plan was screened in the Filmmakers of the Present section of the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Florin Piersic, Jr., Manuela Servais, (more)
