Gheorghe Dinică
Dinica showed an early interest in acting, being part of different amateur theater troupes since he was 17. In 1957, he entered The National Institute of Theatre and Cinematography Art in Bucharest. He graduated in 1961, already drawing public attention with the role of Inspector Goole in the graduation play An Inspector Calls. Since then, Gheorghe Dinica performed for some of the most important Romanian theatres: 1961-1967 Comedy Theatre, Bucharest 1968-1969 Bulandra Theatre, Bucharest since 1972 I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest Dinica was also a Romanian director and popular film actor, thus acting mostly in Romanian films. Like the French actor Alain Delon, Dinica refused to act in movies produced in the United States. Since 2002, Dinica was an honorary member of the society of I.L.Caragiale National Theatre. He is also an honorary citizen of the city of Bucharest. He was awarded the "Faithful Service" Order in the Grand Officer class. Dinica died of cardiac arrest at Floreasca Emergency Hospital, Bucharest.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3557 |
| Birthday | 1934-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Bucharest, Romania |
| Also Known As | Gheorghe Dinica, Георге Диникэ, |
2006
White Palms
7.139/18
Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start -...
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White Palms
2009
Weekend with My Mother
6.7/15
15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When...
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Weekend with My Mother
2002
Philanthropy
7.658/120
In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unass...
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Philanthropy
2002
The Afternoon of a Torturer
7.107/14
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
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The Afternoon of a Torturer
1981
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
6.231/13
Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Roman...
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Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
2003
Exam
8/10
While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and...
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Exam
1974
The Immortals
7.636/11
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
2007
Ticăloșii
6.5/8
All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.
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Ticăloșii
1993
The Earth's Most Beloved Son
7.045/22
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is a...
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The Earth's Most Beloved Son
1972
With Clean Hands
7.526/19
A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.
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With Clean Hands
1978
Revenge
8.273/11
"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
1966
Golgotha
7.75/4
Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the poli...
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Golgotha
1972
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
7.074/27
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
2002
The Tower of Pisa
5.333/3
Story of a typical Romanian couple in crisis.
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The Tower of Pisa
1968
The Column
7.625/16
The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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The Column
1993
Look Ahead with Anger
5.625/8
After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wh...
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Look Ahead with Anger
2002
Bed of Procust
6.55/10
The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discov...
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Bed of Procust
1982
Contest
7/8
An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
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Contest
1976
The Punishment
7.25/14
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 t...
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The Punishment
2004
Orient Express
5.778/9
At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is se...
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Orient Express
1994
Mirror
6.464/14
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
1994
Fed Up
6/8
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
1980
Last Night of Love
5.429/14
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
1973
The Poseidon Explosion
6.4/10
A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city
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The Poseidon Explosion
1966
White Trial
7/4
Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend.
Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen B...
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White Trial
1987
Secretul lui Nemesis
7.375/8
The administrator of a huge apartment block in Bucharest, a former great Communist Party activist, now in disgrace, eliminated from politics and perch...
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Secretul lui Nemesis
1993
High schoolers on alert
8.125/8
Former classmates Dana, Ionica, Geta, and Cosmin face adult challenges: Dana, now a reporter craving thrilling cases, ropes Cosmin into playing detect...
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High schoolers on alert
1977
Oil
5.563/8
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are ca...
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Oil
1975
The Wall
7.2/5
At the beginning of the 40's, Victor (Gabriel Oseciuc) is a young Communist who has been hiding for months in a built-in room to print out on his own...
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The Wall
1992
Divorț... din dragoste
7.5/4
After their marriage, a young couple are astonished to find their privacy invaded by strangers through an absurd order from the Housing Authority. The...
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Divorț... din dragoste
1995
Terente: The King of Swamps
6.5/4
The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landsc...
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Terente: The King of Swamps
1984
O lumină la etajul zece
7.2/5
A woman tries to regain her dignity, both in her personal life and her career, after spending five years in prison, because of a false accusation that...
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O lumină la etajul zece
1994
The Stone Cross
7.375/8
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 Bu...
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The Stone Cross
1980
Poor Ioanide
7/6
Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architec...
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Poor Ioanide
1983
On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube
6.6/5
The search for a list of Nazi spies that had been hidden in the house of a widowed noblewoman.
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On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube
2005
L'homme pressé
4.6/5
An antiques dealer misses out on some of life's pleasures because of his obsession with doing everything fast.
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L'homme pressé
1972
Bariera
7.167/6
In 1942, Nea' Vitu is in trouble with his children: a son is fascinated by the world of war profiteers, and the daughter is going around with the spec...
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Bariera
1975
Filip the Kind
7/6
Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
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Filip the Kind
1987
The Nest of Wasps
8/9
In 1936, a time when Bucharest was known as the "Paris of the East", the three Duduleanu sisters, from a family of prosperous merchants, rule their cl...
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The Nest of Wasps
1977
The Great Solitary
6.5/4
Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a politic...
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The Great Solitary
1967
The Dacians
7.286/28
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
1984
Un petic de cer
6.6/5
The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal...
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Un petic de cer
1993
Intimate Bed
5.556/9
Romania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and...
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Intimate Bed
1977
Steps in the Sky
7.4/5
Ion is the head of workers' team who install high-voltage lines in the mountains. He discovers a design error that could put many lives in jeopardy an...
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Steps in the Sky
1974
Beyond the Sands
6.75/4
Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why ma...
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Beyond the Sands
1972
Felix and Otilia
6.036/14
Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules....
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Felix and Otilia
1975
Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
7.636/11
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 t...
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Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475
1982
The Encounter
7.5/4
This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII.
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The Encounter
1974
The Martens Brothers
7.6/5
Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. Ionut is the youngest son of Commissar Jder, a trusted man of Ste...
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The Martens Brothers
1974
A Police Inspector Calls
7.808/13
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
1984
The Secret of Bacchus
7.833/12
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed...
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The Secret of Bacchus
1974
The Prodigal Father
7.4/5
This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.
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The Prodigal Father
1995
The Idle Princes of the Old Court
6.667/6
A subtile, soft exploration of the relation between love and death.
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The Idle Princes of the Old Court
1975
We Do Not Film Just for Fun
7/5
This is a comedic meta-movie about making a movie on the Romanian seaside. The movie made is about some low level black market traffickers.
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We Do Not Film Just for Fun
1976
Through the Ashes of the Empire
5.875/8
A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sen...
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Through the Ashes of the Empire
1978
Operation 'The Bus'
7/4
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of an...
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Operation 'The Bus'
1987
The Extras
8.25/4
After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the...
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The Extras
1999
The Famous Paparazzo
5.889/9
A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.
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The Famous Paparazzo
2001
War in the Kitchen
5.875/8
A Romanian soldier deserts during the March '90 conflict from Tg. Mures. He hides at a cantonment where he starts a love story with the cantoner's gir...
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War in the Kitchen
2004
Family Album
6.6/5
Mircea Moraru, the owner of a Romanian media giant, gets involved into politics, in order to lower the financial deficit of his company. As the electi...
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Family Album
1980
The "S" Network
5.583/6
Industrial espionage movie, in communist Romania.
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The "S" Network
1961
A World Wihout Sky
6.75/4
A movie about miner strikes in 1292 Jiu Valley. It is made from re-cutting and combining two previous movies, "Lupeni '29" and "Golgota", that were sh...
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A World Wihout Sky
1986
Sentimental Summer
6.667/3
The favorite plot for communist propagandists: a new agronomist comes in the village and gets in conflict with the local cooperative president. Everyt...
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Sentimental Summer
1975
The Escape
7.25/4
Two Romanian soldiers manage to escape from a camp in Tatra mountains, Czechoslovakia.
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The Escape
1983
Life Like Laughing
6.667/3
Three youngsters are sent to "re-education through labor" on a hydro dam construction site. They prove in the end to fare much better than some of the...
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Life Like Laughing
1978
Doctor Poenaru
7.6/5
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
1975
Postcards with Wildflowers
7.75/4
In 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an ill...
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Postcards with Wildflowers
1964
The Stranger
5.8/5
The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.
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The Stranger
1976
Three Days and Three Nights
7.2/5
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
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Three Days and Three Nights
1967
The Major and Death
7.6/5
A police major is investigating a gangster.
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The Major and Death
1979
Uncertain Roads
6.75/4
Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he...
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Uncertain Roads
1976
The Premiere
8.2/5
In the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening nig...
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The Premiere
1982
White Darkness
7.25/4
A woman in a village tries to break up her son and his girlfriend. He asks for help a local cult leader. He tells her to use some specially prepared w...
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White Darkness
1984
Zbor periculos
6.333/3
A copilot takes control of the aircraft due to the fact that the captain has taken some risky decisions. This will degenerate into an ugly conflict.
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Zbor periculos
1965
Comoara din Vadul Vechi
6.75/4
In a poverty stricken village in 1947 Moldavia, the obsession for getting rich of Prisac turns the community against him. Based on "La Răzeși" (Yeoma...
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Comoara din Vadul Vechi
1992
Casa din vis
6.25/4
Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu.
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Casa din vis
2004
The Timișoara Syndrome
7.5/4
A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.
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The Timișoara Syndrome
1978
Anything for Soccer
6.6/5
In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones respo...
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Anything for Soccer
1970
Too Little for Such a Big War
8.2/5
A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troo...
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Too Little for Such a Big War
1971
Nebunia lui Pantalone
0/0
Set in the atmosphere of 16th-century Venice, the film recreates, in a modern spirit, the characteristic elements of commedia dell’arte: rhythm, verve...
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Nebunia lui Pantalone
2003
Alone Versus Myself
7/1
A notorious convict who'd been an undercover agent during the communist regime agrees to return to prison to kill an inconvenient witness against some...
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