Movies: Studioul Alexandru Sahia
- 1958
Women of Today (1958)
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Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of different ethnicities, pointing out the benefits that the communist organization had brought to their d...
- 1975
Open files (1975)
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A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes -...
- 1957
Let All Children Smile (1957)
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The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For Mészáros, the concern for the situation of children left orphaned during the Second World War is aut...
- 1975
The Diary of Florica S. (1975)
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Director Eugenia Gutu offers a feminist critique of gender (in)equality under socialism in this documentary portrait of an industrializing town and its model citizen, Florica S....
- 1973
Letter from Romania (1973)
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Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic communities with the country they left behind. In this case, the film is addressed to Jews who emigrate...
- 1960
Re-enactment (1960)
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In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves in a film which reconstitutes the crime and the investigation. At ...
- 1971
Ședința s-a amânat a doua oară (1971)
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Counterintelligence film from communist Romania....
- 1963
Tăbăcării (1963)
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An illustration of the evolution of the working conditions in the communist era, compared to the interwar period, using as a pretext a recently modernized factory in Jilava, presented in a mirror with the one described in a 1934 report by Geo Bogza....
- 1969
Adolescence (1969)
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"This wonderful age in life where every thought strives toward an ideal, toward work, toward the future." Sahia Studios propaganda flick about how adults and their "those darn kids" attitudes affect adolescents....
- 1963
3x3=…? (1963)
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A playful representation of the snobbery of communist middle class parents, for whom grades are more important than the real interest in their children's needs and curiosities....
- 1966
Case D (1966)
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A compassionate portrait of a lonely old man’s attempt to reconnect with his estranged family is transformed into an investigative cinema verité procedural....
- 1989
JECO - Jocuri Electronice pe Calculator (1989)
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" Advertisement film for video games made by CENTROCOOP. "...
- 1974
Winter of a slacker (1974)
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At the beginning of the 70s, Sahia Studio produced a number of social investigations commissioned by the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, intended to expose the so-called "social parasitism". The decision was taken after the theses ...
- 1963
Cartierul nostru (1963)
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Produced at the request of the Executive Committee of the People's Council of the capital, "Our Neighborhood" follows the story of a locomotive mechanic and his neighbors, recently assigned to the newly constructed buildings in Floreasca. Set against...
- 1984
Quality Control (1984)
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Ada Pistiner’s investigation of the sources of substandard domestic items pushes its commissioned mandate to self-scrutiny, questioning both state-imposed industrial production and filmmaking processes....
- 1982
The Night School Students (1982)
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Bearing the signature melancholy, affection, and absurdist irony of associative form that would define his filmography, Copel Moscu’s debut is a loving portrait of miners and their arduous, sun-deprived existence....
- 1980
For Our Heirs, More Stories About Bucharest (1980)
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A cine-postcard directed at the Bucharest of 2080, For Our Heirs… is a charming time capsule whose innocuous humour and visuals will soon stand in sharp contrast to the harsh reality of the decade’s austerity measures....
- 1972
Let The Summer Pass (1972)
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A public service announcement condemning the ominous obstacle of social parasitism and delinquency amongst wayward youth unwilling to contribute to Romania’s socialist advancement....
- 1972
Then The City Was Born (1972)
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Documentary about the fall of the old city of Orșova due to the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric power station....
- 1967
Însemnări de reporter (1967)
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Banned for 20 years during the communist regime in Romania, this short film depicts New York City through the eyes of a director and a writer....