Ernest Maftei Movies

Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold...

In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then...

Old man John Tarwater and young lawyer Elam Harnish, gripped by the "gold fever" leave for Alaska, embarking on the adventure of a new hard and...

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to...

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination,...

The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and...

A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.

During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.

In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers...

Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why...

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice...

In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

On New Years Eve, in an isolated mountain chalet, two robbers seek refuge, together with two lost tourists.