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Operation 'The Monster'

Original title: Operatiunea 'Monstrul'
  • 1976
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
1.5K
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Operation 'The Monster' (1976)
Comedy

A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funni... Read allA group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.

  • Director
    • Manole Marcus
  • Writer
    • Titus Popovici
  • Stars
    • Toma Caragiu
    • Octavian Cotescu
    • Marin Moraru
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.6/10
    1.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Manole Marcus
    • Writer
      • Titus Popovici
    • Stars
      • Toma Caragiu
      • Octavian Cotescu
      • Marin Moraru
    • 10User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Toma Caragiu
    • directorul Dumitru
    Octavian Cotescu
    • directorul adjunct Eugen
    Marin Moraru
    • Corneliu
    Nineta Gusti
    • mama lui Corneliu
    Cristina Hofman
    • Pictorita
    Elena Sereda
    • secretara lui Dumitru, Hortansa
    Lia Sahighian
    Ada D'Albon Azimioara
    • Sotia scriitorului
    Gabriela Teodorescu
    Petre Kuhn
    • Pescarul lipovean
    Vera Varzopov
    George Grigoriu
    Alexandru Manolescu
    • Soferul
    Ovidiu Schumacher
    Ovidiu Schumacher
    • Vanatorul
    • Director
      • Manole Marcus
    • Writer
      • Titus Popovici
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    10cgorie

    Everything about it, is extraordinary!

    I've seen this movie many times now, and I must tell you it is the best comedy movie ever made in Romania. Everything about it, is extraordinary. First of all is the acting; cast with THE GREAT Toma Caragiu; The are the jokes, intelligent and very funny; And I must say for a romanian movie this old it looks and sound great. See it!
    andrei-verdeanu

    Soundtrack

    This is a great movie that's my opinion and I like it that much because it replicates very well the atmosphere of a fishing day in the Delta together with a group of great actors and a very nice storyline.It's a really good comedy, one of the best Romanian comedy's I've seen it many times but I always forgot to see who composed the music / soundtrack so, does anybody know who composed the music or the soundtrack of this movie?I'm interested especially about the final title(generic).I searched desperately on the internet and I haven't found anything, not a single complete archive or description of this movie containing info about the soundtrack. If someone could help me I'd thank you very much
    10rhadoo27

    Laugh

    my favorite Romanian movie... this and Filantropica rules the comedy.... Toma Caragiu is the most absurd character, but is seducing, is charming... He has the control, but he has nothing.. life is sometimes so simple... You get the big fish if u have luck... that is the lesson... Sometimes we don't have it. I recommend this movie to all the people who said that Romanian comedy is not one in the top of the comedies... Please watch this movie.. You will laugh... And you will laugh... For all the Romanians in the world, smile, we will rule the world someday, but then we will be dead... I said it... Look, this is a stupidity, but in this movie everybody believes the stupidity... They are so naive so ambitious to believe the ideals that they don't respect... But all you can't is good for other...
    10gutza36

    Awesome!!! A+

    Now this movie is simply awesome! It's by far the best ever produced in the history of romanian movies! Toma Caragiu's sublime acting make it unforgettable! Just imagine under what sort of circumstances the movie was made - ubiquitous communism! In a time where freedom of speech was simply utopian the actors simply overcome this imprisonment through subtle and subliminal commy jokes. The comprehensive understanding of this movie is limited to those able to overstand the romanian language as well as for the versed viewer and connoisseur of romanian history, which may count imho as the only drawback of the movie, apart from the poor audio/video quality - but hey, remember it's 1976 in communist Romania?!??? Well 'nuff said, but remember: don't even try to start a conversation about romanian movies if you didn't see this work of art!
    10mirunasimona

    Parody of the Romanian communist period

    So from my point of view, as a romanian, is that the Operation "The Monster" is a parody of the Romanian communist period. At the beginning are establishing a set of rules, stupid rules like in the communist period. After they are breaking those one by one and everyone is fearing not be seen by another one, like in the communism when you were afraid to say anything even to a friend or a neighbor because you aren't sure that is not working with the security! So, it's a genial parody wich was released IN the communist period when everything against the system was out for the public! 😂😂😂

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      Mark Cousins wrote about Operation 'The Monster' (1976): "Three great Romanian actors skewer pomposity in a much admired comedy with echoes of Milos Forman's Czech film The Firemen's Ball (1967). Rarely seen outside Romania, it's a revealing treat." [Romanian Film Season in Edinburgh, 2015]

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    • Release date
      • April 5, 1976 (Romania)
    • Country of origin
      • Romania
    • Language
      • Romanian
    • Also known as
      • Операция 'Чудовище'
    • Filming locations
      • Danube Delta, Romania
    • Production company
      • Casa de Filme Trei
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 42m(102 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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