Mircea Veroiu
Directing
Biography
Mircea Veroiu was born on April 29, 1941 in Tirgu Jiu, Romania. He was a director and actor, known for Nunta de piatra (1972), Craii de Curtea Veche (1995) and Duhul aurului (1974). He died in December 1997.
Born: April 29, 1941
Place of Birth: Tirgu Jiu
Known For
The Actor and the Savages
Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world.
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.
Evening Guests
Two couriers from a camp show up to communicate with the communists, when there should be only one. Which one is the impersonator sent by Germans?
The Conspiracy
A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.
Stefan Luchian
Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.
Phalanstery
In the early 19th century the Romanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "phalansteries" in Rumania. The film dramatizes the origins and demise of this effort, called the "Scaieni Phalanstery (the term is derived from "phalanx" and "monastery"). Among the socio-political commentary that is conveyed throughout, there is an important collusion between the army and the wealthy landowners of the time, and as the film points out in its own way, neither of these groups has ever been convicted of socialist/utopian tendencies.
Armed and Very Dangerous
America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie... Based upon stories by Francis Bret Harte.
Filmography
as Jack Hamlin
as Major Weber
as Legionarul
as Georges Mavromihali