Aureliu Ionescu

Movies

The Carpathian Castle
Production Design
In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Hello, Greatgranny Is Landing!
Production Design
The movie tells the tale of the marital crisis of Romeo and Julieta Ionescu, a crisis that can easily end with a break-up.
Un echipaj pentru Singapore
Production Design
Scrum Half
Production Design
Andrei, a lathe operator in Constanța shipyard and also a rugby team player, pendulates between two love interests. He also gets involved for a little while in some criminal activity. In the end decides to go to college to Galați, leaving all this behind.
Ora zero
Production Design
In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI.
Man in Overcoat
Production Design
Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?
The Cyanide and the Raindrop
Production Design
Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.
I, You, and Ovidiu
Production Design
A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime.
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
Production Design
Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.
The Last Night of Loneliness
Production Design
The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village.
Three Days and Three Nights
Production Design
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
We Do Not Film Just for Fun
Production Design
This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
Three Secret Letters
Production Design
A director of a shipyard abusively fires a foreman who has opposing ideas.
Seven Days
Production Design
This movie presents 7 days of a secret agent's life. Unlike most other movies that glamorize secret agents, this one shows the routine, nitty gritty work.
Long Way to Tipperary
Production Design
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 Russian puppet government. Obviously this is seen through the lenses of communist propaganda.
The Conspiracy
Production Design
A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.
Pope Joan
Production Design
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
The Lost Forest
Production Design
In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on.
Reconstruction
Costume Design
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
Reconstruction
Production Design
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
Production Design
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 opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
Forest of the Hanged
Art Direction
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
Sunday at Six
Production Design
Romania, 1940. A boy meets a girl. They fall in love without suspecting anything about their real identities. They chose an eventful, tense and dangerous life as underground anti-fascists fighters. The significance of their activity is manifest in the consequences it has on the tormented progress of their love. Reality is against it. Two parallel lines which meet for a second, only to drift apart for ever.