Valentin Popescu

Valentin Popescu

Nacimiento : 1955-04-04, Braila, Romania

Perfil

Valentin Popescu

Películas

Maria Tănase
Milagro
Doctor Ivan
Una joven monja se escapa de su monasterio para hacerse cargo de un asunto urgente, pero nunca vuelve y un detective de la policía investiga sobre su destino y descubre pistas y revelaciones que no solo llevan a la verdad, sino también a un milagro.
Parking
Padre
Adrian es un poeta rumano que llega ilegalmente a España en 2002. Sin papeles, comienza a trabajar como vigilante nocturno en la tienda de un lugareño, Rafael, y su vida dará un giro cuando conozca a María, que toca la guitarra en un grupo de jazz.
Fault Condition
Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.
Întoarcerea magilor
The Priest
Mihai and Nidala travel the country putting on shows that convey a simple message: there can be hope if there is love and faith.
Toni Erdmann
Arbeiter Ölfeld
Inès trabaja en una gran empresa alemana establecida en Bucarest. Su vida está perfectamente organizada hasta que su padre Winfried llega de improvisto y le pregunta ”¿eres feliz?”. Tras su incapacidad para responder, sufre un profundo cambio. Ese padre que a veces estorba y que la avergüenza un poco le va a ayudar a dar nuevamente sentido a su vida gracias a un personaje imaginario: el divertido Toni Erdmann.
El milagro de Tekir
Onu
Expulsada de su casa tras quedarse embarazada de forma misteriosa, una curandera que trata de limpiar su nombre conoce a una mujer que ansía el mismo milagro.
Km 73
Dan
Dan and Cristi are both parents. Their sons are best friends. On the way to the Lehliu police station, Dan does not have the courage to tell Cristi the whole truth about his son's accident and the real reason for this long drive.
To Paris with the Identity Card
Police Commander
Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei every day.
Aurora, un asesino muy común
Doru
La última película del director rumano Cristi Puiu ('La muerte del señor Lazarescu') gira en torno a Viorel (interpretado por el propio Cristi Puiu), un hombre divorciado padre de dos niñas, tiene 42 años y que se encuentra sumergido en una profunda crisis. Aunque aparentemente es un tipo normal y corriente, algunas de sus actitudes hacen presagiar lo peor: conduce por toda la ciudad en posesión de un rifle de caza y no sabemos qué intenciones puede tener de utilizarlo... ¿qué busca? ¿qué pretende? ¿hacia dónde se dirige? Pronto descubriremos que Viorel es en realidad un despiadado asesino, cuando lo veamos acechar a una familia en un solar abandonado. Después, continuará su viaje incierto rodeado de terribles pensamientos.
Floating Things
Avram
While working in Europe, Avram comes to realize that Italians are paying good money for trained dogs that can protect them from the waves of immigrants. That's Avram's big-time idea: he returns to Romania to start breeding watch dogs which he can later export to Italy. As it happens, he settles next to a camp of immigrants recently sent back from Rome. Thus, the Italian tension is willy-nilly reenacted on the banks of the Danube. Avram's life gets complicated. He starts having an affair with his own daughter in law, lands in conflict with his ex-immigrant neighbors and his life is literally under threat. The film ends with an unpredictable situation.
The Rest Is Silence
Catargiu
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.
Ryna
Biriș
In a small village in the Danube Delta, where traditions are confronted with new material purposes, a teenage girl is becoming a woman. This is the story of Ryna, a 16 year old girl, working as an motor mechanic in Sulina, who strives to find her identity next to a father who is firmly denying her femininity.
A Roof Overhead
The decision taken by the hospitals council board of early releasing the neurotics and depressed, throw Mona 36 and Cathy 30 in the real world, a world which cannot offer them any place to live except a little house, without a roof , situated at the edge of the country , in the Danube Delta. It's Mona's grandparents house, but both of them are dead. Their arrival triggers weird reactions on behalf of the villagers because they have big plans: to sell the village to a very rich man who own a football team and a political party who wants to turn the place into a luxurious resort. Could Mona and Cathy resist to the villagers reactions? Could they find a place to live in this world?
En territorio enemigo
Vladimir Norkov
El comandante Sam Keenan (Van Damme) es un antiguo S.E.A.L. de la marina con la experiencia de combate suficiente para proteger los intereses de los EE.UU. en cualquier parte del mundo. Pero el día que llega a su nuevo destino en un convulso país del Este de Europa, Keenan se ve envuelto en una situación sangrienta y caótica: rebeldes fuertemente armados han saqueado la capital, han asesinado al embajador de los EE.UU., y amenazan con derrocar al nuevo presidente y acabar con la incipiente democracia.
Love Sick
Mr. Parvulescu
Narra la historia de una amistad entre dos chicas que acaba convirtiéndose en una relación de amor. Los celos del hermano de una de ellas hará que su relación se complique... (FILMAFFINITY)
Lost and Found
(segment "Turkey Girl")
Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of "generation".
Sherlock: Case of Evil
Killer
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
Filantropía
Recuperator #1
En el Bucarest del siglo XXI, salir por la noche acompañando a una mujer guapa es una inversión financiera arriesgada. Ovidiu, modesto profesor de instituto, no se lo puede permitir. Y sin embargo lo tiene que hacer, porque está más que enamorado de una pequeña sirena con aspiraciones de modelo. A la busca de una fuente de ganancias algo más consistente que una pobre paga de profesor, Ovidiu se sumerge en un mundo fabuloso: la mafia de los mendigos.
Capul de zimbru
Terente: The King of Swamps
Locotenentul
The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta.
Meurtres par procuration
Modine
Lionel suffers from severe memory loss as a result of an accident. Inspector Corona accuses him of the brutal murder of a law student with whom he had a relationship.
Ángel del infierno
Policeman with Club
Una mujer demonio consigue escapar del Infierno. Al llegar a la Tierra desde las cloacas, está acostumbrada a castigar a los pecadores. Pero lo último que ella esperaba era encontrar el amor.
Pepe and Fifi
The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.
Luxury Hotel
In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.
Undeva în Est
Sanda
Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.
The Last Ball in November
The film is the story of Prince Cantacuzin’s hidden love for his pupil he mentored since early adolescence, until her being married by her stepfather. Daria Mazu, coming from an unfortunate family, with an epileptic brother and a drunker stepfather.
A Dream's Bird Ashes
Five high school graduates are followed though their life altering decisions and their consequences.
The Inn Among the Hills
In order to obtain a title, Iordache, recently becoming wealthy, marries his daughter with a noble on hard times, Ștefan. On his way to Iordache's estate, he stops an Mânjoalâ's inn, where he discovers a mysterious world and falls for the innkeeper. Based on Caragiale's novel, "La Hanul lui Mânjoală”. Last film role for Gina Patrichi.
Bătălia din umbră
Werner von Schaft
In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.
Dommnișoara Aurica
This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind.
Passo Doble
Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.
Fără prelungiri
Fane
The residents of a retirement home start a football team.