Ernest Maftei Movies

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don...

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

A young engineer arrives for a short time in Bucharest, where he reconnects with the girl that he loves since college. They get married, and she sacri...

During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.

The movie is about the historic moment in which the PNȚ political party has attempted to form a government in exile to counteract the Petru Groza Russ...

On New Years Eve, in an isolated mountain chalet, two robbers seek refuge, together with two lost tourists.

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the...

An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.

Two dogs and a duck are saving a family.

A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman settlement...

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 no...

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he...

A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.