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Two Lottery Tickets (1959)
Directed by Aurel Miheleș, Gheorghe Naghi
Comedy, Drama · 58m
1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella “Două loturi” (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directing belongs to Aurel Miheleş and Gheorghe Naghi, at that time both recently graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. This is the second feature film in colour from Romania. Despite the great public success, the film was often criticized by reviewers, mostly for its unhandy directing from the two debutants. Miheleş and Naghi would however continue their collaboration and release another two Caragiale adaptations, of which “Telegrame” (Telegrams, 1959) was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 edition of the Cannes festival.
Cast
Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic
Dr. Lefter Popescu
Dorina Done
Madame Lefter Popescu
Marcel Anghelescu
Captain Pandele
Alexandru Giugaru
Comisar Turtureanu
Ion Iancovescu
organ-grinder
Mircea Constantinescu
The Banker
Margareta Pogonat
Tica
Crew
- Director
- Aurel Miheleș, Gheorghe Naghi
- Writer
- Gheorghe Naghi, Jean Georgescu, Aurel Miheleș
- Editor
- Eugenia Dumitrescu
Details
- Original title
- Două lozuri
- Release date
- 1959-03-23
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- RO
- Spoken languages
- Romanian
- Countries
- Romania
- Production
- Studioul Cinematografic București