Magda Catone

Inspired by historical facts, this film is a story of love and survival against the background of the 1951 Communist ordered deportation of 40,000 landowners and people of non-Romanian origins to the Baragan Plain, the "Romanian Siberia".

At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the ...

The traditional Romanian typologies are finely satirized by the author Geo Saizescu, who is in full creative maturity. We thus find the opportunist politician, played by the master Geo Saizescu himself, three of the characters of the Romanian village: the mayor, the tavern keeper and the priest, played brilliantly by prominent personalities of the Romanian scene. Written by Canon y ...

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, ...