Dan Pita
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Dan Piţa is a Romania
n film director
and screenwriter
.
, which won an Honourable Mention at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival
. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival
.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
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Career
Piţa has directed several award-winning films since 1970, including the 1985 hit Pas în doiPas în doi
Pas în doi, also known as Passo Doble, is a 1985 Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa. It stars Claudiu Bleonţ, Petre Nicolae, Anda Onesa and Ecaterina Nazare...
, which won an Honourable Mention at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival
36th Berlin International Film Festival
-Jury:* Gina Lollobrigida * Rudi Fehr* Lindsay Anderson* August Coppola* Werner Grassmann* Otar Iosseliani* Norbert Kückelmann* Francoise Maupin* Rosaura Revueltas* Naoki Togawa* Jerzy Toeplitz-Films in competition:...
. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival
37th Berlin International Film Festival
The 37th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February to 3 March 1987.-Jury:* Klaus Maria Brandauer * Juliet Berto* Kathleen Carroll* Callisto Cosulich* Victor Dyomin* Reinhard Hauff* Edmund Luft* Jiří Menzel...
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Filmography
- Femeia visurilorFemeia visurilorFemeia visurilor was a 2005 Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa.-Cast:*Dan Condurache ... Thomas Alexandru*Razvan Vasilescu ... Nene*Adrian Pintea ... Dr. Antim*Catalina Mustata ... Noa*Claudiu Bleonţ ... Fabian*Eugen Cristea...
(2005) - Second-HandSecond-HandSecond-Hand was a 2005 Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa.-Plot summary:The film's plot surrounds the romantic involvement of two contrasting characters: Petre , a Mafioso, and Andreea , a young violin player. The pair meet and fall in love...
(2005) - Omul zilei (1997) The Man of the DayThe Man of the DayThe Man of the Day was a 1997 Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa....
- Eu AdamEu AdamEu Adam was a 1996 Romanian film directed by Romanian director Dan Piţa, based on short stories by Mircea Eliade....
(1996) - Pepe & Fifi (1994)
- Hotel de luxHotel de LuxHotel de Lux is a 1992 Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa. It won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The movie has 105 minute running time and includes several important actors in the Romanian cinema...
(1992) Luxury Hotel - Autor anonim, model necunoscut (1989) Anonymous Author, Unknown Model
- Noiembrie, ultimul bal (1989) The Last Ball in NovemberThe Last Ball in NovemberThe Last Ball in November is a 1989 Romanian film directed by Romanian director Dan Piţa and based on a novel by Mihail Sadoveanu titled Locul unde nu s'a întâmplat nimic....
- Rochia albă de dantelă (1988) The White Lace Dress (USA)
- Pas în doiPas în doiPas în doi, also known as Passo Doble, is a 1985 Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa. It stars Claudiu Bleonţ, Petre Nicolae, Anda Onesa and Ecaterina Nazare...
(1985) - Dreptate în lanţuri (1983) Chained Justice (USA)
- Faleze de nisipFaleze de nisipSand Cliffs is a Romanian motion picture drama released in 1983 and banned four days after its première by the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. The film, adapted from the novel Zile de Nisip by Bujor Nedelcovici, was directed by Dan Piţa, with dialogue and script by Bujor Nedelcovici and Dan Piţa,...
(1983) Sand Cliffs adaptation of the novel Sand Days/Zile de Nisip by Bujor NedelcoviciBujor NedelcoviciBujor Nedelcovici is a novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and photographer who lives in Paris, France.... - Concurs (1982) The ContestThe Contest"The Contest" was the 51st episode of the NBC sitcom, Seinfeld. The eleventh episode of the fourth season, it aired on November 18, 1992. In the episode, George Costanza tells Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer that his mother caught him unaware while he was masturbating...
- Prea tineri pentru riduri (1982) Too Young for Wrinkles
- Pruncul, petrolul şi ardelenii (1981) The Oil, the Baby and the TransylvaniansThe Oil, the Baby and the TransylvaniansThe Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians is a Romanian Red Western directed by Dan Piţa.It dramatises the struggles of Romanian and Hungarian settlers in a new land, the American frontier. Despite the American setting, including such minor details as use of the phrase "Bad-lands", it was entirely...
- Bietul Ioanide (1979) Memories from an Old Chest of Drawers
- Mai presus de orice (1978) This Above AllThis Above AllThis Above All is a 1942 American romance film set in World War II adapted from the Eric Knight novel of the same name and directed by Anatole Litvak...
- Profetul, aurul şi ardelenii (1978) The Prophet, the Gold and the TransylvaniansThe Prophet, the Gold and the TransylvaniansThe Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians is a 1978 Romanian film directed by Romanian director Dan Piţa. It is the first in a Red Western trilogy that also comprises The Artiste, the Dollars and the Transylvanians and The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians.It is spoken in English and...
- Tănase Scatiu (1976) A Summer Tale
- Filip cel Bun (1975) Filip the Kind
- Duhul aurului (1974) Gold FeverGold FeverGold Fever was the name of a BBC documentary shown in August 2000, which followed Steve Redgrave and his coxless four team in the years leading up to the Sydney Olympics, where Redgrave was looking to claim his fifth consecutive gold medal...
, Lust for GoldLust for GoldLust for Gold is a 1949 western film about the legendary Lost Dutchman gold mine, starring Glenn Ford as the "Dutchman" and Ida Lupino as the woman he loves. It was based on the book Thunder God's Gold by Barry Storm... - August în flăcări (1973) (TV) August in Flames
- Nunta de piatră (1972) (segment "At a Wedding") The Stone Wedding
- Apa ca un bivol negru (1970) Black Buffalo Water
- Viaţa în roz (1969) La vie en roseLa vie en rose"La Vie en Rose" was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf.-Signature song of Édith Piaf:Édith Piaf first popularized La Vie en Rose in 1946. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the melody of the song by "Louiguy" . Initially, Piaf's peers and her songwriting team did not think the song...
- Dupaamiază obişnuită (1968) An Ordinary Afternoon
- Paradisul (1967) Paradise
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