Andrei Blaier

Andrei Blaier

Andrei Blaier (15 May 1933 – 1 December 2011) was a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 1958 film The Ball was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Born in Bucharest, he attended the Ion Luca Caragiale High School and then graduated in 1956 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts. In 2002, Blaier was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank. He died in 2011 in Bucharest and was buried at the Bellu Catholic Cemetery.

  • Title: Andrei Blaier
  • Popularity: 0.074
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1933-05-16
  • Place of Birth: Braila, Romania
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Andrei Blaier Movies

  • 1960
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    Mingea

    Mingea

    8 1960 HD

    With his nose pressed against the glass, four-year-old Ionel watches the kids playing ball in the street with great interest. His father, a schoolteacher, has lost his job. Now he goes to various institutions in vain, because in bourgeois Romania it is not easy to find a job. Ionel waits for his father every night and while waiting for him he dreams of getting a real yellow ball for his birthday. His father realizes that it is necessary to get the money and buy the ball. After all, the boy is crippled, and the ball is the only hope for him to get well...

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  • 1960
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    Mingea

    Mingea

    8 1960 HD

    With his nose pressed against the glass, four-year-old Ionel watches the kids playing ball in the street with great interest. His father, a schoolteacher, has lost his job. Now he goes to various institutions in vain, because in bourgeois Romania it is not easy to find a job. Ionel waits for his father every night and while waiting for him he dreams of getting a real yellow ball for his birthday. His father realizes that it is necessary to get the money and buy the ball. After all, the boy is crippled, and the ball is the only hope for him to get well...

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  • 1958
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    The First Melody

    The First Melody

    5.2 1958 HD

    A romantic story about the first love.

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  • 1978
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    The Fury

    The Fury

    6 1978 HD

    A village celebrates being granted the title of city. During the festivity an old, sick, beat down man shows up. No one seems to recognise him but he claims to be a villager that everyone thought had died in the war 30 years earlier.

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  • 1977
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    Steps in the Sky

    Steps in the Sky

    7 1977 HD

    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 and knows that the chief designer is Valeria, his ex-girlfriend from adolescent days.

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  • 1967
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    The Mornings of a Sensible Youth

    The Mornings of a Sensible Youth

    7 1967 HD

    A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.

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  • 1967
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    The Mornings of a Sensible Youth

    The Mornings of a Sensible Youth

    7 1967 HD

    A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.

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  • 1972
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    The Lost Forest

    The Lost Forest

    6.3 1972 HD

    In 1943 in a Romanian fishing village on the river Danube brothers Pavel and Simion compete for the love of Lia while the war is raging on.

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  • 1992
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    Divorț... din dragoste

    Divorț... din dragoste

    7.3 1992 HD

    After their marriage, a young couple are astonished to find their privacy invaded by strangers through an absurd order from the Housing Authority. The state institution orders the newlyweds to cede a room in their apartment to an unknown person. And the only solution to use their home as they please is... divorce. But in court battles, divorce takes on dimensions no one expected...

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  • 1995
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    Terente: The King of Swamps

    Terente: The King of Swamps

    5.7 1995 HD

    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 landscape of the Danube Delta.

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  • 1994
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    The Stone Cross

    The Stone Cross

    7 1994 HD

    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 Bucharest before the Communist period, doomed to destruction under the new rules of proletarian morals that the Communists were trying to impose. The idea could be the start of a great film, with the prostitution being seen not so much from its destructive and exploitation perspective, but rather as a form of freedom in a time when the whole society was falling under the rule of propaganda, hypocrisy, and repression. In a world due to fall under tyranny for the coming decades prostitution becomes a metaphor of the old more free way of life.

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  • 1977
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    Steps in the Sky

    Steps in the Sky

    7 1977 HD

    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 and knows that the chief designer is Valeria, his ex-girlfriend from adolescent days.

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  • 1975
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    Postcards with Wildflowers

    Postcards with Wildflowers

    7 1975 HD

    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 illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind. A quiet, devastating portrait of control, shame, and the cost of forbidden choices.

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  • 1976
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    Through the Ashes of the Empire

    Through the Ashes of the Empire

    5.7 1976 HD

    A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect – silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all – fragments of an old way to discover reality. all – words of a new world.

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  • 1986
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    An Item of News

    An Item of News

    6.7 1986 HD

    A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.

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  • 1969
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    Then the Legend was Born

    Then the Legend was Born

    6 1969 HD

    Used to move along with the construction projects they were working for, a group of people decide that is time to settle.

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  • 1982
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    White Darkness

    White Darkness

    6.3 1982 HD

    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 wine.

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  • 1982
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    White Darkness

    White Darkness

    6.3 1982 HD

    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 wine.

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  • 1988
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    The Great Vacation

    The Great Vacation

    1 1988 HD

    Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.

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  • 1988
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    The Great Vacation

    The Great Vacation

    1 1988 HD

    Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.

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  • 1973
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    A Certain Kind of Happiness

    A Certain Kind of Happiness

    6.3 1973 HD

    A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.

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  • 1964
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    Unfinished House

    Unfinished House

    6.3 1964 HD

    Sandu, a player, asks his friend to keep company to one of his conquests for a few hours. But then hours turn to a few days, and the two get to know each other better. Acting debut for Valeria Seciu.

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  • 1960
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    The Storm

    The Storm

    6 1960 HD

    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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  • 1975
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    Postcards with Wildflowers

    Postcards with Wildflowers

    7 1975 HD

    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 illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind. A quiet, devastating portrait of control, shame, and the cost of forbidden choices.

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  • 1983
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    Life Like Laughing

    Life Like Laughing

    5 1983 HD

    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 their colleagues.

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  • 1983
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    Life Like Laughing

    Life Like Laughing

    5 1983 HD

    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 their colleagues.

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  • 1986
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    Bătălia din umbră

    Bătălia din umbră

    7 1986 HD

    In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.

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  • 1989
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    The Moment of Truth

    The Moment of Truth

    7 1989 HD

    An epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia.

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  • 1992
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    Divorț... din dragoste

    Divorț... din dragoste

    7.3 1992 HD

    After their marriage, a young couple are astonished to find their privacy invaded by strangers through an absurd order from the Housing Authority. The state institution orders the newlyweds to cede a room in their apartment to an unknown person. And the only solution to use their home as they please is... divorce. But in court battles, divorce takes on dimensions no one expected...

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  • 1978
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    Anything for Soccer

    Anything for Soccer

    7 1978 HD

    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 responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing.

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  • 1957
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    Ora H

    Ora H

    1 1957 HD

    An adventure movie for children and young people about the solidarity of a group of schoolboys who help their schoolmate to foil an attempt to compromise his father, who was about to be involved in a theft of timber from the warehouse where he was a guard. Based on a novel by Nicuta Tanase.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

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