Personal Info
Birth date
1937-06-25 (88 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Taușeni, Cluj, Romania
Also known as
Dorel Vișan
Dorel Vișan
Biography
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Filmography
Shadows
8.458
Overview:
Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.Occident
6.833
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"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.The Oak
6.6
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A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.Of Snails and Men
6.6
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One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.File 631
6.1
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Inspired by a true story, the film presents a TV reporter's journalistic investigation into alleged American "flying prisons" in Romania. Through a combination of circumstances, following a mysterious File 631, Dinu (Iosif Paștina) discovers a leak from a NATO base in Romania. The news event stirs, provokes, tempts various media, top politicians, services, both internal and external, causing both hilarious and absurd dramas in a black comedy. The journalistic endeavour of the "newly" turned investigative reporter is a tough, not easy, test to preserve his professional dignity, but also his character, noting the duplicity, the moral volatility, the lack of measure of a world that relentlessly continues its course.The Moromete Family
7.3
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Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.Bibliothèque Pascal
6
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A single mother's struggle to support her child leads her into the surreal netherworld of illegal sexual enterprises, with her finally ending up in the Bibliothèque Pascal; an elegant but bizarre house of prostitution in which men can re-enact sexual scenarios inspired by great works of literature for a hefty fee.Poor Ioanide
7
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Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has "on file" the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.Taste and Color of Happiness
7.3
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A nonconformist engineer challenges some stereotypical negative communist characters.Before the Silence
7
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Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"Păcală
7.8
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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.Beyond America
7.5
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Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in order just to take her back and provide the protection she needed. Struggling to preserve her humanity, she falls in love with a young platonic dreamer, a kind of rebel without cause, whom she initiate in literature and reinvents as a character capable to meet her own desires of freedom. BEYOND AMERICA is a love story and an action drama altogether, with archetypes of an aggressive, totalitarian society.The Green Grass of Home
6.5
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After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.The Forest Woman
8
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Busuioc (Victor Rebengiuc), un taran bogat din Curtici isi trimite fiul Iorgovan (Adrian Pintea), impreuna cu servitorul Sofron (Serban Ionescu) in satul vecin pentru a gasi oameni la munca campului. Iorgovan este indragostit de Simina (Manuela Harabor), fiica unui taran sarac, dintr-un sat de munte, in cautarea careia pleaca. Cum si Simina ii impartaseste sentimentele ea accepta sa vina la culesul recoltei impreuna cu tatal sau. Sentimentele lui Iorgovan sunt confuze, este slab si sfasiat intre dragostea sincera pentru Simina si obstacolul prejudecatilor si diferentelor de pozitie sociala. In acest timp Sofron, tanarul servitor al acestuia, se indragosteste la randu-i de Simina. Infruntarea dintre cei doi pretendenti devine din ce in ce mai acuta, fapt care va limpezi atitudinea fiecaruia fata de femeia pe care amandoi o iubesc.Uncertain Roads
6
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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 returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.Fault Condition
8
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Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.The Carpathian Castle
5.3
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In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.The Beheaded Rooster
5.5
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A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.Zapping
5.8
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In a shabby apartment somewhere in Romania, a man obsessively zap between his TV channels despite the wife's complaints and nagging. But where his wife fails, a little man inside the TV will appear and tell Sotul a thing or two about the true mechanics of television zapping...Ticăloșii
6.5
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All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.21 Rubies
10
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When a political turmoil brings a Romanian prosecutor into the spotlight, she is offered the position of attorney general.To Paris with the Identity Card
8
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Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei every day.Confession of Love
7.4
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Love story of 2 high school students with different social standards, Ioana and Alexandru. They are to form a couple with all the social and familial obstacles encountered.Dallas Pashamende
5
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On a garbage dump, people try to make a living in the poorest of conditions.Fox: Hunter
7.1
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Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu.Năpasta
6
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This is a film about love, crime of passion, revenge, happening in the Romanian countryside, late XIX century.Fleeting Loves
5.9
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A Romanian architect who married abroad reunites with his birthplace, with those he met, with the women he loved, with the echoes of what happened once, with the great transformations that are taking place in the Capitol, on construction sites and in Romanian villages. Condemned by an incurable disease, but also overwhelmed by these realities and by the irrepressible longing for his homeland, the hero decides to return home for good.The Woman from the Great Bear
8
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A construction site is set up next to a colony of forest workers. Murgu, a worker on the construction site, and Maria, a girl raised by foresters who took care of the colony's household affairs, fall in love with each other.Jacob
6.8
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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. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.Acting
2024Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu as Stolnicul Cantacuzino
202321 Rubies as Unknown
2022The Voice Crying in the Wilderness as Unknown
2022File 631 as Pacea
2018Fault Condition as Unknown
2015To Paris with the Identity Card as Mihai Marta
2014Shadows (7 Episodes) as Toma
2012Of Snails and Men as Vladimir
2010Bibliothèque Pascal as Mayor
2008Beyond America as Colonel Marcus
2007The Beheaded Rooster as Mailat
2007Ticăloșii as Dan Dumitru
2005The Nervous System as Ministrul orb
2005Dallas Pashamende as Politistul
2004Sindromul Timișoara as General
2004Family Album as Mircea Moraru
2002The Tower of Pisa as Dorel
2002Occident as The cop
2002Noro as Unknown
2000Zapping as Politistul
1999Fii cu ochii pe fericire as Marin
1996Too Late as The prefect
1995The Snails' Senator as Senatorul Vârtosu
1994Mirror as Petru Groza
1993The Master Builder Manole as Gaman
1993The Earth's Most Beloved Son as guard
1993Fox: Hunter as Unknown
1992The Oak as Country Priest
1991The Coders as Unknown
1990Undeva în Est as Lupșe
1990A Clod of Clay as Ion Creangă
1990Forgotten by God as Unknown
1988Jacob as Iacob
1987The Moromete Family as Tudor Bălosu
1987The Forest Woman as Priest Furtună
1986Open Path as Unknown
1985Dommnișoara Aurica as Curcuman
1985Confession of Love as eng. Cristea "Nea Tăticu"
1985The Season of the Seagulls as Unknown
1985The Kid as Peasant
1985I Hope to See You Again as Bogdan
1985Furtună în Pacific as Marcu
1983To Kill a Bird of Prey as Panaitescu
1983Sand Cliffs as Unknown
1982Năpasta as Gheorghe
1982The Woman from the Great Bear as Murgu
1982Baloane de curcubeu as Ene Lelea
1981Personal Issues as Prime Secretary
1981The Carpathian Castle as Giorgie Partenie
1981The Sign of the Serpent as Odoleanu
1980The House Between the Fields as Firuta
1980The Bride from the Train as Filimon's Father
1980Poor Ioanide as Petrișor, fiul lui Bonifaciu Hagienuș
1980A Girl's Tears as The Major
1980Good Evening, Irina as Scuba Diver
1979Uncertain Roads as Unknown
1978Before the Silence as Unknown
1978Taste and Color of Happiness as Executive
1977The Green Grass of Home as Dumitru Corici, fratele lui Ștefan
1976A Summer Tale as Nichitache
1974Păcală as Executioner
1974Fleeting Loves as Zamfir