Ion Besoiu
He was born in Sibiu in 1931 and graduated the city's Theater and Music Academy. After making his debut in 1957, he played for 16 years at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. He then moved to Bucharest, where he played at the Bulandra Theatre. He later served for 12 years as director of this well-known theatre.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.852 |
| Birthday | 1931-03-11 |
| Place of Birth | Sibiu, Romania |
| Also Known As | Ион Бесою, |
1971
Michael the Brave
7.3/39
An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who unite...
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Michael the Brave
1991
Subspecies
5.411/112
Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.
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Subspecies
2009
Ashes and Blood
6.7/5
Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see h...
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Ashes and Blood
1980
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
8.4/11
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes th...
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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
2011
Loverboy
6/16
Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his pote...
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Loverboy
1974
The Immortals
7.7/10
It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
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The Immortals
1978
Revenge
8.2/10
"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we mee...
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Revenge
1973
The Last Bullet
8.2/10
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).
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The Last Bullet
1974
A Police Inspector Calls
8.4/10
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose...
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A Police Inspector Calls
1972
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
7/25
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, wh...
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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
1989
Proud Heritage
7/10
After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turk...
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Proud Heritage
2015
Bucharest Non-Stop
7.152/23
"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of...
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Bucharest Non-Stop
1980
Last Night of Love
5.7/11
In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's borde...
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Last Night of Love
1979
Michael, the Dog That Sang
7/7
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Michael, the Dog That Sang
1988
Jacob
6.8/5
Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Unde...
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Jacob
1994
Fed Up
5.4/7
Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still al...
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Fed Up
1978
Astray
6.6/5
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
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Astray
1966
The Uprising
6.8/6
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine so...
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The Uprising
1983
The Mysteries of Bucharest
7/6
The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societ...
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The Mysteries of Bucharest
1994
Mirror
6.4/13
Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Ministe...
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Mirror
1972
Bariera
7/5
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Bariera
1985
The Silver Mask
7.7/9
Margelatu has to clear his name.
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The Silver Mask
1980
Poor Ioanide
7/5
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Poor Ioanide
2014
White Gate
7.2/10
Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.
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White Gate
1973
Ciprian Porumbescu
7.2/4
This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.
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Ciprian Porumbescu
1967
The Dacians
7.6/25
The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Co...
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The Dacians
1960
The Thirst
6.4/5
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
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The Thirst
1963
Tudor
7/3
Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Tu...
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Tudor
1965
Camera alba
6/1
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Camera alba
1966
The Outlaws
7.7/7
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...
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The Outlaws
1965
The Soimaresti Clan
7.8/5
Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
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The Soimaresti Clan
1983
Forest Fruit
5.8/4
The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the soldier...
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Forest Fruit
1981
Crew for Singapore
7/2
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Crew for Singapore
1966
Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor
7.3/3
Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan Hagi-Iordan (George Calboreanu). This will put pres...
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Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor
1980
The Bone Srewn Road
7.3/7
Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.
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The Bone Srewn Road
1986
The Turquoise Necklace
7.7/7
5th movie in the "Margelatu" series
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The Turquoise Necklace
1970
The Castle of the Condemned
6.7/3
After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering t...
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The Castle of the Condemned
1975
The Actor and the Savages
8.1/14
Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwa...
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The Actor and the Savages
1974
Păcală
7.8/9
Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, gre...
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Păcală
1975
The Romanian Musketeer
5.5/4
During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen...
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The Romanian Musketeer
1982
Mercenaries' Trap
7.3/11
The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of...
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Mercenaries' Trap
1981
The Duel
8.1/9
Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catc...
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The Duel
1985
The Last Assault
7.4/14
The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
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The Last Assault
1987
Secretul lui Nemesis
7.286/7
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Secretul lui Nemesis
1987
Everything is Paid
7/5
Sixth "Margelatu" movie
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Everything is Paid
1988
Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time
6/3
Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a lot. Dragoș appears in their lives to fill the voi...
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Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time
1985
The Recruitment
5.8/5
Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an economic spying multinational, that forces him to p...
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The Recruitment
1978
The Cyanide and the Raindrop
6.7/3
Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.
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The Cyanide and the Raindrop
1981
Blackmail
7/6
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
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Blackmail
1977
Shootings Under the Moonlight
7/3
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
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Shootings Under the Moonlight
1971
Asediul
4.8/4
A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the b...
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Asediul
1980
At the Crossroads of Great Storms
6.3/3
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician...
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At the Crossroads of Great Storms
1973
Captain's Ion Arrow
6.7/3
In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Hands...
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Captain's Ion Arrow
1972
The Power and The Truth
8/4
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
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The Power and The Truth
1971
The Brothers
7/3
Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.
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The Brothers
1964
Merriment Ward
5/2
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
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Merriment Ward
1973
The Snowstorm
2/2
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
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The Snowstorm
1978
Doctor Poenaru
7/4
In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An ideo...
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Doctor Poenaru
1963
Your Part of the Blame
6/1
This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses dis...
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Your Part of the Blame
1966
Chess to the King
5/2
When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring.
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Chess to the King
1981
The Convoy
5.7/6
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The Convoy
1974
Strange Agent
5/2
This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)
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Strange Agent
1957
Eagle 101
6/3
A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents due to his love. Based on the novel "Zbor de noapte" (N...
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Eagle 101
1960
The Storm
6/3
The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
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The Storm
1982
Mad Forest
5.5/4
A young communist returns to a small provincial town.
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Mad Forest
1983
Dangerous Turn
7.3/3
A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead ma...
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Dangerous Turn
1971
Amongst the Green Hills
6.3/3
Here the author makes a movie after his own novel. Following 3 murders, the investigations will have some unexpected turns.
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Amongst the Green Hills
1982
Mult mai de preț e iubirea
5/2
A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.
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Mult mai de preț e iubirea
1983
Căruța cu mere
5/4
Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the...
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Căruța cu mere
1984
Horea
7.2/4
Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.
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Horea
1985
I Hope to See You Again
4/2
A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an o...
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I Hope to See You Again
1975
Cantemir
6/1
Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empi...
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Cantemir
1971
Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
7.6/20
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
1987
François Villon: The Maverick Poet
5/1
The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he support...
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