Eliza Petrăchescu
Know for: Acting
Born: 1911-06-14
Place of birth: Vaslui, Romania
Also know as:
Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 (1975)
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...
Lust for Gold (1974)
The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and...
The Stone Wedding (1973)
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...
The Thirst (1960)
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Felix and Otilia (1972)
In this monumental Romanian film, a large family and its many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by...
Memories of My Childhood (1964)
Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.
A Summer Tale (1976)
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
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,...
Codine (1963)
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...
Postcards with Wildflowers (1975)
Laura (Carmen Galin) comes from a small town on the Danube to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. She is addressing Irina (Elena Albu) and her mother...
Family Jewels (1958)
A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.
Bird of the Storm (1957)
Adam, a young and poor fisherman, falls in love with Uliana, but the girl's parents want her to marry Simion. To get rid of him, Simion blames Adam...
Last Night of Childhood (1969)
Teenager Lucian is at the life crossroads. Just graduated high school, college and first love awaits.