Movies by Valentin Uritescu

Angela Goes On

Angela Goes On

One woman taxi driver in Bucharest is hoping for a conventional relationship.

Earth's Most Beloved Son

Earth's Most Beloved Son

The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.

The Tower of Pisa

The Tower of Pisa

Story of a typical Romanian couple in crisis.

The Eleventh Commandment

The Eleventh Commandment

Free adaptation of the book "The Pitesti phenomenon" by Paul Goma.

The Conjugal Bed

The Conjugal Bed

Romania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and poverty. Now, their problem is mostly poverty - and plenty of it. In this grim comedy (to call it a black comedy would be to paint too perky a picture of it), Vasile (Gheorghe Dinica)has a wife whom he's fond of, and a mistress, whom he's fonder of. He manages a nearly abandoned movie theater, and makes just about nothing doing it. When his wife announces she's pregnant, he nearly goes frantic...

Contest

Contest

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.