Octavian Cotescu
Know for: Acting
Born: 1931-02-14
Place of birth: Dorohoi, Botoşani, Romania
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Bucharest Identity Card (1982)
A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a...
The Story of the Voyages (1983)
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake...
Boga Sisters (1968)
This is about the lives of three sisters during the second World War in Romania. Based on the homonymous play by Horia Lovinescu.
The Hope (1979)
The film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers'...
Penelope's Condition (1976)
A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...
Through Dusky Ways (1972)
When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but...
Circus Performers (1981)
A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
A Lost Letter (1977)
The plot take place in 1883 in a small provincial town in Romania, where the corrupt establishment decide everything, including - of course - who...
Autumn of the Goslings (1975)
The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled...
Repeated Wedding (1985)
This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie.
The Carpathian Castle (1981)
In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later...
Circus Performers at the North Pole (1984)
In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family...
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)
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 Green Grass of Home (1977)
After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth (1967)
A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as...
The Saturday Night Dance (1968)
Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls.
Sword Swallower (1982)
The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number...
The Castle of the Condemned (1970)
After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering...
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love (1980)
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes...
The Prodigal Father (1974)
This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.
The Secret of Bacchus (1984)
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud...
Păcală (1974)
Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity,...
Aurel Vlaicu (1977)
Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer.
The Migrant Birds Are Coming (1984)
In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
Operation 'The Monster' (1976)
A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and...
Promisses (1985)
Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
A Spare Moment (1986)
Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.
The Computer Testifies (1982)
Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim.
The Power and The Truth (1972)
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
The Trap (1974)
After defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in...
Magic Circle (1975)
Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
The Moment (1979)
This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in...
Blackmail (1981)
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
The Man We Need (1979)
A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
A Night Long Love (1963)
A psychological movie about the life of three sisters in a Romanian village.
Serenade for the 12th Floor (1976)
Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new...
The Court Adjourns the Sentencing (1976)
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
Shootings Under the Moonlight (1977)
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
Hidden Mountain (1974)
A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that...
Asediul (1971)
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...
Together Again (1978)
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.
Grandpa and Two Young Offenders (1976)
A police officer is investigating the disappearance of a colleague's young boy. His key seems to be the "dark skinned" friend of the boy about whom...
Tragic Vacation (1979)
During the peasant uprising of 1888, Alecu Dumitru, a socialist, hides from police in the Nada Florilor island, next to a fishing village.
Alone Amongst Friends (1979)
A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.
Stay with You (1982)
A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.
Escapada (1983)
A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
Prea cald pentru luna mai (1984)
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
Tanta si Costel - Iubirea e un lucru foarte mare (1962)
Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur (2003)
Collection of some of the best clips, Toma Caragiu has made.