Lazăr Vrabie
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Lazăr Vrabie.
Born: August 24, 1924
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Known For
The Power and The Truth
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Mingea
With his nose pressed against the glass, four-year-old Ionel watches the kids playing ball in the street with great interest. His father, a schoolteacher, has lost his job. Now he goes to various institutions in vain, because in bourgeois Romania it is not easy to find a job. Ionel waits for his father every night and while waiting for him he dreams of getting a real yellow ball for his birthday. His father realizes that it is necessary to get the money and buy the ball. After all, the boy is crippled, and the ball is the only hope for him to get well...
The Waves of the Danube
Ciulei’s second feature recalls the best of Fritz Lang and Michael Curtiz in its WWII-era espionage tale, set on a barge transporting Nazi munitions up the Danube. Ciulei himself givers a superb performance as Mihai, the barge captain forced to navigate the heavily mined waters along with his new bride, Ana (Irina Petrescu). As the journey wears on, Mihai becomes increasingly suspicious of one of his crew, ex-convict Toma (Lazar Vrabie), and his intentions towards Ana. But Toma has a far graver—and potentially deadly—secret to conceal.
The Castellans
Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural monument, so an expert is summoned, but foolish beliefs betray them.
Babusca's Adventures
In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
The Conspiracy
A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.
Filip the Kind
Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
The Thirst
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Eruption
The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.
The Trap
After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.
Filmography
as Atanasiu, fost coleg cu tatal lui Filip
as Crețu
as Mahu
as Mahu
as Police Major Vlad
as Col. Olariu
as Crevete (Shrimp)
as Col. Dinu
as Crișan
as Toma
as Father
as The Silent One