Temistocle Popa

Temistocle Popa

Birth : 1921-06-26, Galati, Romania

Death : 2013-11-26

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Temistocle Popa

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Exam
Music
While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened.
Betrayal
Original Music Composer
After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.
Harababura
Music
A few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet by chance in Poiana Brașov.
Duminică în familie
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A computer programmer falls in love with an architect, which, after her parents died, is responsible for her 4 younger siblings. He conquers her by first befriending her brothers and sisters.
Secretul lui Nemesis
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Un oaspete la cină
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A love story between a worker and an architecture student from a well to do family that has to overcome prejudice.
Repeated Wedding
Music
This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie.
Promisses
Music
Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
Zbor periculos
Music
A copilot takes control of the aircraft due to the fact that the captain has taken some risky decisions. This will degenerate into an ugly conflict.
The Migrant Birds Are Coming
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In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
The Secret of Bacchus
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Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
Un petic de cer
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Miezul fierbinte al painii
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A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII
Blackmail
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A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Hurry Slowly
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I have an Idea
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Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
Al treilea salt mortal
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Melodii, melodii
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I, You, and Ovidiu
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A witty and cheerful musical comedy made under the Communist regime.
Astray
Music
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
The Redhead
Music
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
The Premiere
Music
In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.
Mama
Original Music Composer
Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family.
Singurătatea florilor
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Sunday Father
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A Certain Kind of Happiness
Music
A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.
Saint Teresa and the Devils
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September, 1944. A group of soldiers and resistance fighters set to blow up a viaduct of strategic value.
Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.
Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family
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The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.
Veronica
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Veronica (Lulu Mihăescu) is a flighty girl who lives in an orphanage. At the age of 5 , a fairy godmother gives her a charmed bag, which can fulfill every wish.
Love Begins on Friday
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A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory.
Kingdom in the Clouds
Music Director
A young man's quest for a kingdom promising eternal youth and immortality. To reach his goal he must fulfill the three wishes of the Emperor's daughter, retrieve three golden objects, answer three riddles set by the Lord of Time, and overcome an evil witch and escape the Kingdom of Lies ruled by an evil Emperor and the young man's nemesis, the Prince of Lies. In return for good deeds along the way, he is given a magical horn and feather to aid him in his quest and is served by a flying horse, All this before he can finally enter the Kingdom of Youth without Old Age and Life without Death and marry the Emperor's daughter.
At the Age of Love
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Mihai is expelled from college and sentenced to prison for a DUI accident. After his term in prison, he is hired at a construction site to be "re-educated"