Eliza Petrăchescu
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 14, 1911
Place of Birth: Vaslui, Romania
Known For
A Summer Tale
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
The Stone Wedding
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.
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
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.
Lust for Gold
The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.
Memories of My Childhood
Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.
Postcards with Wildflowers
In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind. A quiet, devastating portrait of control, shame, and the cost of forbidden choices.
Family Jewels
A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.
Codine
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.
The Thirst
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Filmography
as Profira, Tănase's mother
as The Intermediate
as Marina
as Fumegoaia
as Mrs. Hora
as Aunt Mărioara
as Catrina
as Doctor
as Soţia lui Gavrilă Ursu
as Eleonora