Circus Performers at the North Pole
In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
Elisabeta Bostan
Vasilica Istrate
Casts & Crew
Octavian Cotescu
Carmen Galin
Iosefini
Dem Rădulescu
Gina Patrichi
Violeta Andrei
Aurel Giurumia
Alexandru Repan
Also Directed by Elisabeta Bostan
One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie about childhood, creativity. Strange topics for a country that was about to fall apart. 50 minutes - by Elisabeta Bostan, who made great movies for kids in the 60's and 70's (such as Veronica).
A story about young gymnasts in Romania.
Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.
A kid discovers he has heart disease, his mother was trying to keep that from him. He is depressed that he cannot play with the other children. For his mother there is a dilema: not to take any risks and have his boy lead an isolated life, or go with the risky heart surgery.
Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family.
A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
A filmmaker wants to create a film about her childhood, and she's looking for a child to star in it. This movie is purely visual, there are no dialogues or story per se.