
Letter from Romania
Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic ...
Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic ...
In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the...
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For...
A compassionate portrait of a lonely old man’s attempt to reconnect with his estranged family is transformed into an investigative cinema...
"This wonderful age in life where every thought strives toward an ideal, toward work, toward the future." Sahia Studios propaganda flick about how...
An illustration of the evolution of the working conditions in the communist era, compared to the interwar period, using as a pretext a recently...
Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of...
Like Márta Mészáros, Florica Holban experienced losing her parents and institutionalization first-hand as a young child, which...
A look at Romania's increasing mechanization in the seventies told from the perspective of a wanderer.
Report from the Red Flag is an odd presence against the gloomy background of Stalinist Romania. It belongs to a wider body of Sahia films about the...
This film consists of almost twenty minutes coverage of a political rally, filmed by more than ten Sahia cameramen, during the celebration of the...
Travelogue of Craiova, a (then-)small town in southwestern Romania.
The gradual opening-up of Romania during the 1960s continued with the reorganisation, in 1972, of the national strategy for culture and tourism...
Let’s work, but how? reproachfully asks one of the workers from the Station for the Mechanization of Agriculture (SMA) in...
You must have passed through here at least once, says the voiceover commentary during the opening shots of this film. We learn that express trains...
The industrial site, the dam under construction and the colony of workers’ housing attached to them are among the favourite spaces of the Sahia...
"This rediscovered film directed by Slavomir Popovici (under his Romanian name, Miron Slavu) was made on command of the Capital's Militsiya. The...
"Filmed at "May the First" plant in Ploiești withe the occasion of the International Labor Day, The Plant is presented as a universe in itself,...
" The "Electromotor" Timișoara enterprise presents the industrial robot "REMT 1" which replaces stereotypical and tiresome activities through a...
" A popularisation film, based on our researches and discoveries in the domain of the most advanced branch of technology, an attempt of clarifying...
Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic ...
In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the...
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For...
A compassionate portrait of a lonely old man’s attempt to reconnect with his estranged family is transformed into an investigative cinema...