The best Eliza Petrăchescu’s movies
Today we present the best Eliza Petrăchescu’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Eliza Petrăchescu’s movies.
The Stone Wedding
7.8/10
Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
Memories of My Childhood
8.1/10
Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
8/10
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
Codine
7.9/10
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Felix and Otilia
7/10
In this monumental Romanian film, a large family and its many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. This movie is based on a very long and popular novel by George Calmescu, and is similar in some ways to England's BBC television series, The Forsythe Saga, based on Galsworthy's books. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge. In one story, a poor young man is disappointed in love as his girl chooses lucre over love in selecting a mate.
The Thirst
6.7/10
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Last Night of Childhood
7.5/10
Teenager Lucian is at the life crossroads. Just graduated high school, college and first love awaits.
Family Jewels
7.4/10
A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.
Tănase Scatiu
7.2/10
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
Postcards with Wildflowers
7.4/10
Laura (Carmen Galin) comes from a small town on the Danube to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. She is addressing Irina (Elena Albu) and her mother (Eliza Petrachescu) for a miscarriage following her death. Overwhelmed by a blame not belonging to her, Irina suicides.
