30 Films & TV Shows Set In Romania During The 20th Century

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  The 25th Hour

  🇷🇴 Romania The 1940s

  A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.

  Released in 1967 • 121 minutes
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  The Uprising

  🇷🇴 Romania The 1900s

  After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.

  Released in 1966 • 100 minutes
• Mofturi 1900

  🇷🇴 Romania The 1900s The 1890s

  The extraordinary film "Search for others" it's 'mythical' that the events proceed and tell what events are happening. 'Miticii' of that era being born and dying events (...) The film takes place events, because coffee is the homeland and the cement that binds people of different dining adventures of the premises. Our director has achieved what his world Caragiale Ibraileanu said, where there lives only one character, but it multiplied in infinite and. Georgescu felt this and made the most extraordinary character in the drawers where the division process is not only aesthetic, but an accurate reproduction of natural and social phenomenon. - D.I.Suchianu -1965

  Released in 1965 • 69 minutes
• Forest of the Hanged

  🇷🇴 Romania The 1910s

  In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

  Released in 1965 • 158 minutes
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  Codine

  🇷🇴 Romania The 1900s

  An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

  Released in 1963 • 98 minutes