Oleg Mutu

Oleg Mutu

Nacimiento : 1972-07-22, Kishinyov, Moldavian SSR, USSR [now Chisinau, Moldova]

Perfil

Oleg Mutu

Películas

Snake Gas
Director of Photography
Lovable
Director of Photography
Agate – the older and well-off partner of Matiss and the mother of ten-year-old Paula dies unexpectedly. It becomes a devastating blow for Paula and a grand possibility for Matiss, a charming novice bailiff assistant and a cheating boyfriend, to “upgrade” his social status with Agates splendid house. Matiss and Paula are stuck together in order to find the only relative left – the missing brother of Agate. This journey leaves irreversible footprints on both of them.
Fools
Cinematography
A drama about the difficult relationship between a mother and a son, and how their choices have dramatic consequences.
Milagro
Director of Photography
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.
Unidentified
Director of Photography
An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.
Parquet
Director of Photography
The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.
The Campaign
Director of Photography
Viorel, a quiet, upright tractor driver from a small town in west Romania meets Mocanu, a high profile politician campaigning for a seat in the European Parliament. Mocanu’s car has broken down nearby and Viorel and his wife welcome the politician into their humble home. Under investigation for corruption, Mocanu sees an opportunity and decides to stay with this modest family during the rest of the campaign, winning people’s hearts by posing as a common man next to his “old friend”, the honest, hard-working farmer. In return, Viorel will get a new tractor.
Donbass
Director of Photography
En la histórica región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, a pesar de la cruel guerra que se viene librando desde 2014 entre las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Luhansk y el Gobierno ucraniano, la gente trata de sobrevivir en el podrido corazón del caos, donde la violencia se disfraza de paz, la propaganda se convierte en unívoca verdad y el odio reina en nombre del amor.
En perfecto estado de salud
Director of Photography
Un abogado investiga el último día de la vida de su padre: un juez cuya turbia muerte levanta sospechas en torno a su joven viuda.
A Gentle Creature
Director of Photography
Inspirada en el relato de Dostoyevski de 1876, 'La sumisa'. Una mujer viaja a una cárcel en una región remota para averiguar qué le ha pasado a su marido después de que un envío para él fuera devuelto sin explicación.
Estados Unidos del Amor
Director of Photography
Año 1990. Polonia acaba de abrirse al capitalismo. Entre la novedad de las cintas de VHS, las clases de aerobic y los discos de Whitney Houston, cuatro mujeres intentan lidiar con la represión sexual y los amores insatisfechos. Agata, atrapada en un matrimonio infeliz, se siente atraída hacia un cura. Renata, ya en su madurez, siente fascinación por su vecina Marzena, que quiere ser modelo. La hermana de Marzena dirige un colegio y tiene un affaire con el padre de uno de sus alumnos.
Together For Ever
Director of Photography
The plot follows an ordinary woman whose family are becoming estranged. Her daughter is a compulsive liar, and her husband seeks escape by working as a stuntman in a B movie with a third-rate film company. The chances of him dying while filming are high, and everybody in the family knows it. Tormented by the thought that she is no longer needed and is unloved by her family, the woman will go to any extreme to prove the opposite, and to keep her family together for ever.
Horizon
Director of Photography
Trying to find their luck, husband and wife, Lucian and Andra start a new business by managing a guesthouse hidden somewhere deep in the mountains.
My Good Hans
Director of Photography
It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
In Bloom
Director of Photography
Tbilisi (Georgia), 1992: la era soviética ha finalizado y Georgia debe arreglárselas por sí sola. La guerra civil está arrasando en la provincia de Abkhazia. Para Natia y Eka, de catorce años de edad, la infancia está a punto de acabarse. Eka está creciendo sin su padre, rebelándose contra su preocupada madre y su hermana mayor. Por otro lado, el padre de Natia, un borracho iracundo, tiene aterrorizada a toda la familia. Las dos amigas tampoco pueden hallar la paz fuera de la familia –ni en la escuela, ni en la calle, ni en la cola para el pan. El caos, la inseguridad y el miedo a lo que el futuro depara domina la vida cotidiana. Un día, un admirador de Nadia le entregará una pistola con una bala. Un poco más tarde, otro admirador la raptará.
The Unsaved
Director of Photography
Nineteen-year-old Viorel lives with his mother in a remote Moldovan town. He has no great ambitions nor any illusions about life. He and his pal Goos earn a little cash through illegal activities, and Viorel is helping him fulfill his dream of flying. His mother tries to convince him to find a decent job. Eventually, Viorel begins taking control of his life.
En la niebla
Director of Photography
Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1942. En la frontera rusa, los partisanos de la resistencia bielorrusa luchan encarnizadamente contra la ocupación nazi. A través de la historia de dos partisanos cuyos caminos confluyen, el relato denuncia la irracionalidad y la crueldad de la guerra. Adaptación de la novela homónima del prolífico escritor bielorruso Vasiliy Vladimirovich Bykov.
Más allá de las colinas
Director of Photography
Después de haber vivido varios años en Alemania, Alina se reúne con una amiga en un aislado convento ortodoxo rumano. Su amistad se remonta a la época en que, siendo niñas, se conocieron en un orfanato. Alina pretende que su amiga vuelva con ella a Alemania, pero ésta se niega porque no sólo ha encontrado refugio en la fe, sino que las monjas constituyen su familia.
Innocent Saturday
Director of Photography
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
My Joy
Director of Photography
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
Historias de la edad de oro
Producer
Últimos años del comunismo en Rumania. A través de cinco historias, dirigidas por cinco realizadores (Mungui, el alma del proyecto, escribió todos los capítulos y dirigió el último, "La leyenda de los vendedores de aire"), se muestra la vida cotidiana de los rumanos en esa época.
4 meses, 3 semanas, 2 días
Producer
Rumanía, 1987. El país se encuentra bajo el férreo régimen comunista de Ceaușescu. Otilia y Gabita son estudiantes y comparten habitación en una residencia. Gabita está embarazada, pero no quiere tenerlo. Las jóvenes acuerdan un encuentro con un tal Mr. Bebe para que le practique un aborto ilegal en la habitación de un hotel.
4 meses, 3 semanas, 2 días
Director of Photography
Rumanía, 1987. El país se encuentra bajo el férreo régimen comunista de Ceaușescu. Otilia y Gabita son estudiantes y comparten habitación en una residencia. Gabita está embarazada, pero no quiere tenerlo. Las jóvenes acuerdan un encuentro con un tal Mr. Bebe para que le practique un aborto ilegal en la habitación de un hotel.
La muerte del Sr. Lazarescu
Director of Photography
El señor Lazarescu es viudo y vive solo en un apartamento con sus tres gatos. Su hija Bianca se marchó a vivir a Canadá. Una noche, el solitario anciano se siente mal y llama a una ambulancia. Lo llevan a un hospital, y desde allí a otro y a otro más, pero en ninguno pueden atenderlo. Mientras tanto, su estado de salud se va agravando rápidamente.
Cigarettes and Coffee
Cinematography
The father, fired two years before retirement, wants to get rehired, requiring the support of his son. The action takes place in a restaurant in Bucharest.
Humanitarian Aid
Director of Photography
Three young men from western Europe are bringing humanitarian aid to a remote Transylvanian village. They’ll also be the recipients of a little humanitarian aid themselves.
Zapping
Director of Photography
In a shabby apartment somewhere in Romania, a man obsessively zap between his TV channels despite the wife's complaints and nagging. But where his wife fails, a little man inside the TV will appear and tell Sotul a thing or two about the true mechanics of television zapping...