Maia Morgenstern
Birthday: 1962-05-01
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Biography: A Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Balanţa, a film known in the United States as The Oak, set during the waning days of Communist Romania. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maia Morgenstern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Passion of the Christ
A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life....
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Ulysses' Gaze
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of hi...
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Damen tango
Nothing seems to threaten the quiet and happy life of Alexandra and Mircea, a couple who's both admi...
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Betrayal
After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing...
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Kidnapped in Romania
A couple of Italo-American journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania....
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My Mother, My Bride And I
At 41, Erwin Kobarek still lives with his mother, with whom he runs a petrol station in the countrys...
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The Oak
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a forme...
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Eva
Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woma...
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The Big Question
Although it was shot on the set of director Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion of the Chris...
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The End of Silence
Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep...
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The Seventh Room
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one a...
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The Man Without a Lifeline
The invention of the first modern robot for table tennis training turns Ionel Sporea into a star in ...
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The Earth's Most Beloved Son
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellect...
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The Green Moon
Contemporary story of young people in search of happiness which one imagines coming from unseen meet...
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A House in Kosovo
A Swedish guy, who grew up on the streets, becomes a successful business man, only in risk all he's ...
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Miss Christina
The film is an adaptation of the well known short story "Miss Christina" by Mircea Eliade. Moscu ar...
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Bed of Procust
The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the...
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Fata din Transilvania
Somewhere in the heart of Transylvania, in remote villages, odd traditions are still present. When a...
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Chained Justice
Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at...
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The Goat and Her Three Kids
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-...
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Mihai Viteazul: Prințul intrat în legenda Europei
Voivode Michael the Brave travels through time, together with his wife, discovering, deeply touched,...
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The Secret of Bacchus
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. ...
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Terezín
The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with ...
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Fool's Song
The story is about Zoltán Frimont, who is a young French doctor of Hungarian origin. He is on a miss...
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Doar amintirile...
Inspired by Bedros Horasangian's series of short stories, the film focuses on the dissolution of a c...
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Orient Express
At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, a...
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Like Girls
Best friends Silvia, Cela and Rozana try new things after they discover Sivlia's husband cheating on...
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Mail life
The father, in the USA, films his life on tapes for his family in Romania to watch. The mother and t...
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High Strung
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship...
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The Witman Boys
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descen...
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The Crucifixion
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigat...
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Revival
In 2020, when a French robotics student investigates his mother's guarded secret about his true Arme...
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Mansfeld
At 15 he and his family became victims of state terror. At 16 he became a freedom fighter to partici...
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Rose's Songs
Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapes...
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Exodus to Shanghai
Exodus to Shanghai tells the story of two lovers who have to escape from Vienna to China after Dr. H...
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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reput...
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The Bra
Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journe...
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What About Love
Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful ex...
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The Death Triangle
The Romanian army faces the German army in the epic battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, marking...
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One second of life
Robert is a complete loser. He wants nothing from life except one thing; to have enough courage to k...
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L'homme pressé
An antiques dealer misses out on some of life's pleasures because of his obsession with doing everyt...
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The Man of the Day
Andrei is the head of a political party, a member of parliament and, at the same time, a prosperous ...
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The Season of Love
The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and ...
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Fault Condition
Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not te...
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Isha
Rahmi, a Romanian immigrant living in England, creates a new life for himself while trying to keep u...
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Face to Face
A protest writer, the glory of dissidence, learns that her husband was a Securitate informer for 20 ...
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Forgotten by God
The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her....
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Margo
Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal....
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Nostradamus
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to ...
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Maria and the Sea
The wife of a sea captain has a tough time being alone without her husband which is in a long trip....
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Prea cald pentru luna mai
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the...
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide a...
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Casa din vis
Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ning...
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Lucania
An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesse...
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Carmen
In a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Ca...
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Far from Here
A young couple struggles to keep their marriage afloat in a foreign country....
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The Goat and Her Three Kids
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three has to defend that what's left of her family, at a...
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The New Gospel
What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today's socie...
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Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait
On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started....
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Rusalka
Five old friends spend a few days together in the resort they used to go in their youth. One of them...
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High Grounds
A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medi...
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