Ernest Maftei Movies

In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers...

Based on the story of the same name by Marin Preda. The movie tells about the struggle of poor peasants against the rural rich for the creation of...

In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on...

In a mountain village, two kids find a roman fibulae. Trying to find more, they stumble upon the notes of a history professor about a Roman...

A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.

Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in...

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

Andrei Blaier's film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of...

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on.

Second of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots...

On New Years Eve, in an isolated mountain chalet, two robbers seek refuge, together with two lost tourists.

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of...

After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.

In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.

Inspired by true events, an orphaned boy raised by the regiment goes to the front in search of his best friend and faces terrifying experiences.

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold...

In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...