central european films to watch

As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.

A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.

In the sixties, around twenty families fled their Algerian village of el-Ouricia, driven by poverty or war. Refugees in Chaâba, a French shantytown, they face the hard learning of integration.

After the war, men struggle to return an overturned yellow tram to its depot. Though each faces personal hardships, the homeless group works together, determined to complete their challenging task.

A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.

A doctor falls in love with a hospital nurse.

A film about the assassination of Romanian historian and politician Nicolae Iorga.

An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.

Directed by Andrei Blaier, this film was produced in 1989, just a few months before the December revolution. Made in a subtle key with veiled references to the communist system of that time, the film only ran for one week, after which it was censored. Set against the backdrop of the dramatic days that preceded and consecrated the Great Union of 1918, "The Moment of Truth" (1918) is more the story of a fascinating but sad love than the fresco of that era. Following in parallel a love in troubled times and the historical destiny of Romania, the film depicts, equally with poetry and realism, the enthusiasm, but also the anguish of those eras, both on a collective and individual level.

Inspired by several real cases, the film presents the facts of a child caught in the series of historical events during the anti-fascist war.

The film is a masterpiece of directing and acting in the same time.In starring brilliant play Serban Ionescu, Amza Pellea,Gheorghe Cozorici and Tora Vasilescu in a realistic vision of the story-communist emblem of culture: young work site which gives answers to the great questions of existence. Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".Scenario, especially frames and inner monologue are very good thought. Review is written and thought by George Ciocirlan.

The fate of two opposite male characters - a lame and naive young man without life experience and a mature swindler, passed through life and with a claim to be recognized as part of the elite.

The title refers to the code of action for the "823" arms uprising against the Nazis in 1944. At that time, Romania was a puppet government of the Nazis, and the German high Command developed a secret operation plan "Romania Margarita II", in an attempt to fully occupy Romania. The Romanian Communist Party, through the party underground, sent Captain Udrea, a patriotic officer of the Romanian armed forces, to try to obtain this secret plan. Oudreya in underground party member toma and other people's cooperation, eliminated all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, finally defeated his old classmate when studying abroad in Germany Werner, obtained the plan. Under the leadership of the Communist Party and based on this information, the armed forces and the Patriotic Guard, with the working class as the main body, successfully launched the armed uprising of August 23, 1944, which was of great historical significance, overthrew the Antonescu puppet group and began the struggle for the liberation of the motherland.

Around the nationalization in 1948, a worker's daughter, as a student, is attracted by the social life offered by a breed horse owner. The relationship will sour by the cruelty with which he kills the horses, rather then give them away.

Several young people - Vive, Romache, Fane, Mariana, Stefan, Blonda - at the beginning of their existence are forced to choose, to decide what their life will be.

Lavish live action fairy tale adaptation featuring the handsome son of a nobleman who embarks on a series of colorful adventures to become a hero.

The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.

Mihai leads members of the local resistance movement in an attack on a barge carrying weapons and ammunition for the Nazis in this World War II.

The story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic.

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister experience, he tries to find out what had really happened. Does he have the right to revenge himself?

The story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.

The wife of the recently deceased lawyer tries to cope with grief after his loss and to keep his last case going in court.