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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-08-21

Place of Birth

Ploieşti, Prahova, România

Toma Caragiu

Known for

Un august în flăcări

Un august în flăcări

The events of August 1944, when King Michael I of Romania overthrew the fascist regime.

The Outlaws

The Outlaws

First 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 and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.

The Loneliness of Flowers

The Loneliness of Flowers

A lonely, selfish and proud doctor receives a bouquet of flowers one day that sets him on fire. An unassuming cab driver, a family man and devoted colleague, helps him to identify the sender and find himself.

Underneath the Surface

Underneath the Surface

A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.

The Premiere

The Premiere

In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.

Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In

Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In

Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.

The Making of the World

The Making of the World

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.

Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea

Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea

Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way

Snowfall Season

Snowfall Season

Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village.

Merriment Ward

Merriment Ward

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

I Don't Want to Get Married

I Don't Want to Get Married

In a textile factory, the cultural supervisor falls in love with a typist. To impress her, he pretends to be friends with a famous composer whose operetta was to be performed by the company's artistic brigade. However, the typist, an uneducated woman, sees him only as a means to become the protected one of an influential person.

The Teacher's Correspondence

The Teacher's Correspondence

A subpoena on perception turns the life of a teacher upside down when he finds himself taxed for what he never even had: two buffalo. Because of the aberrant bureaucracy, he can't even get rid of the fictitious cuckolds...

Gloria nu cîntă

Gloria nu cîntă

The "Sing the country's cities" contest organized on TV is sweeping the province. Facing her baccalaureate and enamored... by cybernetics, Gloria is pushed to take part in the contest. But Gloria doesn't sing.

The Great Solitary

The Great Solitary

Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.