Ion Besoiu Movies

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.

In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's...

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to...

A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the consequences of an accident and the implications that...

In 18th-century Transylvania, peasants rise against oppressive nobles under the leadership of Horea, Cloșca, and Crișan. Hoping for...

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity,...

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,...

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part...

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician...

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too...

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the...

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an...

Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his...

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the...

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

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