Ion Besoiu

Ion Besoiu

Birthday: 1931-03-11

Place of Birth: Sibiu, Romania

Biography: He was born in Sibiu in 1931 and graduated the city's Theater and Music Academy. After making his debut in 1957, he played for 16 years at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. He then moved to Bucharest, where he played at the Bulandra Theatre. He later served for 12 years as director of this well-known theatre.

Movies

Michael the Brave
Michael the Brave

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" /...

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Subspecies
Subspecies

Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transyl...

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Ashes and Blood
Ashes and Blood

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with...

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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he...

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Loverboy
Loverboy

Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Consta...

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The Immortals
The Immortals

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Vit...

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Revenge
Revenge

"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (...

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The Last Bullet
The Last Bullet

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's la...

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A Police Inspector Calls
A Police Inspector Calls

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic ...

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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Sec...

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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s....

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François Villon: The Maverick Poet
François Villon: The Maverick Poet

The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who l...

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Proud Heritage
Proud Heritage

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a militar...

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Bucharest Non-Stop
Bucharest Non-Stop

"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More spe...

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Last Night of Love
Last Night of Love

In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is...

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Michael, the Dog That Sang
Michael, the Dog That Sang

The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here...

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Jacob
Jacob

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and...

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Fed Up
Fed Up

Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but dis...

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Astray
Astray

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just ...

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The Uprising
The Uprising

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowner...

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The Mysteries of Bucharest
The Mysteries of Bucharest

The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revo...

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The Silver Mask
The Silver Mask

Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure col...

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Mirror
Mirror

Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis...

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Poor Ioanide
Poor Ioanide

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but imp...

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Bariera
Bariera

In 1942, Nea' Vitu is in trouble with his children: a son is fascinated by the world of war profitee...

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White Gate
White Gate

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania....

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Ciprian Porumbescu
Ciprian Porumbescu

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu....

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Tudor
Tudor

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation...

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Camera alba
Camera alba

A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the cons...

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The Outlaws
The Outlaws

First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws ...

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The Soimaresti Clan
The Soimaresti Clan

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloo...

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The Dacians
The Dacians

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to...

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The Thirst
The Thirst

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform....

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Forest Fruit
Forest Fruit

The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with ...

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Crew for Singapore
Crew for Singapore

A ship captain loses his ship and most of his crew in a shipwreck in the Caribbean. Returning home, ...

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Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor
Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor

Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan H...

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The Bone Srewn Road
The Bone Srewn Road

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities....

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The Turquoise Necklace
The Turquoise Necklace

The kidnapping of a Viennese banker and his daughter threatens to trigger a diplomatic scandal, whic...

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Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time
Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time

Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a ...

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The Castle of the Condemned
The Castle of the Condemned

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight t...

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The Actor and the Savages
The Actor and the Savages

Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constan...

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The Romanian Musketeer
The Romanian Musketeer

During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and F...

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Păcală
Păcală

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wro...

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Mercenaries' Trap
Mercenaries' Trap

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some l...

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The Last Assault
The Last Assault

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2....

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Secretul lui Nemesis
Secretul lui Nemesis

The administrator of a huge apartment block in Bucharest, a former great Communist Party activist, n...

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Everything is Paid
Everything is Paid

Margelatu discovers and annihilates a plot by the Austrians by infiltrating the Fratia organization ...

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The Duel
The Duel

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a...

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The Recruitment
The Recruitment

Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an e...

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The Cyanide and the Raindrop
The Cyanide and the Raindrop

Investigation into the death of a modest cashier....

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The Power and The Truth
The Power and The Truth

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

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The Brothers
The Brothers

Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization....

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Merriment Ward
Merriment Ward

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

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The Snowstorm
The Snowstorm

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

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The Storm
The Storm

The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some ...

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Doctor Poenaru
Doctor Poenaru

In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he ...

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Mad Forest
Mad Forest

A young communist returns to a small provincial town....

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Your Part of the Blame
Your Part of the Blame

This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reach...

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Blackmail
Blackmail

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they ca...

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Dangerous Turn
Dangerous Turn

A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of pla...

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Chess to the King
Chess to the King

When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a coun...

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Shootings Under the Moonlight
Shootings Under the Moonlight

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighter...

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Asediul
Asediul

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist p...

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At the Crossroads of Great Storms
At the Crossroads of Great Storms

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-ba...

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The Convoy
The Convoy

During the Second World War, a fascist warden takes over a prison in Romania and plans to kill commu...

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Strange Agent
Strange Agent

This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The...

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Captain's Ion Arrow
Captain's Ion Arrow

In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and r...

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Eagle 101
Eagle 101

A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents due t...

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Mult mai de preț e iubirea
Mult mai de preț e iubirea

A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. ...

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Horea
Horea

Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan....

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Căruța cu mere
Căruța cu mere

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenz...

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I Hope to See You Again
I Hope to See You Again

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his s...

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Cantemir
Cantemir

Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight f...

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Sick Animals
Sick Animals

The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclus...

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