Geo Saizescu
Biography
Geo Saizescu (14 November 1932 – 23 September 2013) was a Romanian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in 22 films between 1963 and 2009 and directed 16 films between 1956 and 2012. He was born in Prisăceaua, Mehedinți County in 1932, the twelfth child of his parents; his father was a notary in the village. After his secondary studies at the Traian High School in Turnu Severin, he studied at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in Bucharest, film directing department, graduating in 1957. He made his directorial debut in 1956 with the film Aventurile bravului soldat Svejk; in 1958 he wrote the script and directed the film Doi vecini [ro]. In 2002 he was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank. He died at the age of 80 in Bucharest and was buried in the cemetery at Cernica Monastery [ro], in nearby Pantelimon. Saizescu was the founder of the Faculty of Arts at the Hyperion University [ro] in Bucharest; the faculty now bears his name. His son, Cătălin Saizescu [ro] (born in 1976) is an actor, film director, and producer.
Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Simion
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Avocatul
A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet by chance in Poiana Brașov.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Sequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as The Judge
Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young, single engineer divides his time between work and an uneventful schedule at home, where TV is front and center. One rainy evening he is disturbed by a woman's phone call and finds himself drawn into an adventure full of the unexpected.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Pretor
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 communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Summer 1913, in a village near Buzăul. Ionica, the schoolteacher's son, witnesses the hard life of the poor villagers. The war is coming and his landless neighbors have to work 16 hours a day at the oil wells for miserable wages. Is there hope for them?
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as The Tenor
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 discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organization tries to convince him to improve his skills become a qualified worker but he refuses saying that he soon wants to go back to his village and be a shepherd.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Foto Bujor
In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Teodor 'Bobby' Davidescu
The search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An important man, always in a hurry, but especially when behind the wheel, runs over a strange pedestrian: a young globe-trotting, absent-minded young man who is treading firmly, but in the wrong place, on the wide road. After hesitating for a moment, the man behind the wheel turns back to the scene and can't find his victim. Out of nowhere, however, the victim appears in the man's life, upsetting an entire family with dramatic and comic-sentimental entanglements.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Ieronim Stâncă
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as The Bizarro
The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In the imaginary country of "Allergica", a group of gangsters have made a fat hit by pinning the blame on the Kid, who awaits execution in the terrible "Bing-Bing" prison. At the last moment the electric chair is unplugged because the lawyer has persuaded the doomed man to dictate his gangster memoirs for the use of the Books & Books publishing house. Its director offers him a "bonus to life" only if he plays along. But the Kid prefers to write about truth, people and love.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Vasiliade
Caught up in the crazes of the "transition", Suflețel also dreams of great adventure. When he learns that his old friend Ismail is his son's real father, Suflețel plans to flee the country. But in Istanbul, he stumbles upon the miraculous money machine...
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The administrator of a huge apartment block in Bucharest, a former great Communist Party activist, now in disgrace, eliminated from politics and perched at the head of a tenants' association, through methods he used in his former political positions - blackmail and anonymous letters - a sex obsessed man, ends up terrorizing honest people, people who are looking for justice. Will they find it?
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Păcală, a young man without too many expectations from life, is tired of wandering around the world and driven by the longing for his parental home he decides to return to his homeland, from somewhere "outside" - a timeless space located outside the borders of Romania.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Lambru
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as The Neighbour #1
Robert is a complete loser. He wants nothing from life except one thing; to have enough courage to kill himself. But one day everything changes, because Robert saved a man's life.