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Geo Saizescu (14 November 1932 – 23 September 2013) was a Romanian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
He appeared in 22 films between 1963 and 2009 and directed 16 films between 1956 and 2012.
He was born in Prisăceaua, Mehedinți County in 1932, the twelfth child of his parents; his father was a notary in the village.
After his secondary studies at the Traian High School in Turnu Severin, he studied at the I.
L.
Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in Bucharest, film directing department, graduating in 1957.
He made his directorial debut in 1956 with the film Aventurile bravului soldat Svejk; in 1958 he wrote the script and directed the film Doi vecini [ro].
In 2002 he was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service, Knight rank.
He died at the age of 80 in Bucharest and was buried in the cemetery at Cernica Monastery [ro], in nearby Pantelimon.
Saizescu was the founder of the Faculty of Arts at the Hyperion University [ro] in Bucharest; the faculty now bears his name.
His son, Cătălin Saizescu [ro] (born in 1976) is an actor, film director, and producer.
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
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.
This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organization tries to convince him to improve his skills become a qualified worker but he refuses saying that he soon wants to go back to his village and be a shepherd.
A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.