Maia MorgensternFilmography

Born:: May 1, 1962 in Bucharest, Romania
Occupation:: Actor

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Black Sea

Actors: Ilaria Occhini, Doroteea Petre, Maia Morgenstern, Vlad Ivanov, Corso Salani

Synopsis: An ailing woman who has lost her husband helps her younger caregiver find hers in this rama from Italy. Elderly Gemma (Ilaria Occhini) is in poor health and has found herself alone for the first time in years after the death of her husband. Gemma lives in Florence, while her son Enrico (Corso Read More

2008
Mansfeld

Actors: Peter Fancsikai, Maia Morgenstern, Ervin Nagy, Karoly Eperjes, Aron Dimeny

Synopsis: Writer/director Andor Szilagy weaves this politically charged tale of a charismatic teen whose youthful rebellion ultimately transforms him into a national icon. Inspired by the 1956 rebellion against the Soviet-sponsored dictatorship in his native Hungary and enraged at the subsequent wave of Read More

2006
The Passion of The Christ

Actors: James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Claudia Gerini, Maia Morgenstern, Sergio Rubini, Rosalinda Celentano, Hristo Jivkov, Luca Lionello, Mattia Sbragia, Hristo Shopov

Synopsis: Mel Gibson's well-publicized production The Passion of the Christ concerns the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The dialogue is spoken in the ancient Aramaic language, along with Latin and Hebrew. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus (James Caviezel) is Read More

2/25/04
Patul lui Procust

Actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Petru Vutcarau, Maia Morgenstern, Tania Popa, Adriana Trandafir

Synopsis: Husband and wife Viorica Mesina and Sergiu Prodan make their directorial debut with Bed of Procust, a romantic drama based on a Romanian novel and set in the twenties. Opening with the suicide of Ladima (Oleg Yankovsky), the majority of the film involves his friend Fred (Petru Vutcarau) Read More

2002
Rose's Songs

Actors: Rózsa Énekei, Ildikó Bánsági, Franco Castellano, Maia Morgenstern, Djoko Rosic

Synopsis: Hungarian director Andor Szilagyi received a much-coveted Crystal Globe nomination at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival for directing this period drama. The film unfolds in WWII-era Budapest, Hungary (in the fall of 1944) and follows the plight of a Jewish clan, the Halasz family, as they hide from Read More

2002
Fata In Fata

Actors: Maia Morgenstern, Serban Ionescu, Serban Pavlu, Mircea Diaconu, Magda Catone

Synopsis: This savage Romanian satire of the media concerns the ghosts of that country's totalitarian past. Writers Victor and Ioana Petroni (Serban Ionescu and Maia Morgenstern) awake one morning to find a horde of journalists with video cameras beating down their door. The muckraking TelePlus Journal TV Read More

1999
Kínai Védelem

Actors: Emil Gyory, Ivan Dengyei, Victor Rebengiuc, Maia Morgenstern, Piroska Molnar

Synopsis: Kinai vedelem is based on the true story of Peter György, a Romanian of Hungarian descent from Transylvania, who spent twenty-two years imprisoned in a Gulag near the Ussuri river. During the border conflict between the Soviet Union and China, he was liberated by the Chinese and allowed to return Read More

1999
Witman Fiuk

Synopsis: Outwardly Janos and Erno Witman seem like typical middle class teens, but beneath their facades of normalcy, the two are deeply disturbed and obsessed with the nature of sex and death. Leaving much to the viewer's imagination, this horrific and highly atmospheric tale begins in a small Hungarian Read More

1997
Ulysses' Gaze

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this drama centers on the Balkan conflict as viewed through the eyes of a filmmaker named A (Harvey Keitel). Director Theo Angelopoulos wrote the screenplay, drawing from personal experiences. A is a Greek émigré director who returns to his Read More

1995
La Settima Stanza

Synopsis: Edith Stein was a German-Jewish intellectual who in the late-'30s created considerable controversy and broke her mother's heart when she converted to Catholicism and then joined one of the Church's most rigorous monastic orders, the Carmelite Nuns. This European biopic tells her story, a tale that Read More

1995
Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

1994
Trahir

Actors: Johan Leysen, Mireille Perrier, Alexandru Repan, Razvan Vasilescu, Maia Morgenstern

Synopsis: After World War II, Romania was swiftly integrated into the Soviet empire, but not before journalist George Vlaicu (Johan Leysen) could write and disseminate an article decrying the death of democracy. He spends eleven years in prison, emerging in 1959 after a secret policeman promises him that Read More

1993
Casa Din Vis

Actors: Gheorghe Dinica, Maia Morgenstern, Horatiu Malaele

Synopsis: They surely thought it was a good idea. Probably a few villagers actually think that the birthday party they are throwing for one of their most curmudgeonly old people is really just a celebration of his long life. However, Chivu is convinced that it is all just a ploy to lure him from his house Read More

1993
Le Chêne

Actors: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan

Synopsis: Lucian Pintilie wrote this dramatic tale of a woman who travels through Romania on a journey to bury her father's ashes, while the countryside lapses into chaos during the final days of the Ceausescu regime. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Raminerea

Actors: Mircea Albulescu, Maia Morgenstern, Dan Condurache, Valentin Uritescu

Synopsis: For his impiety in building his grand house on a site which put it higher than the village of Raminerea's church, the grandfather of a local clan was cursed by the village priest, and six of his seven grandchildren have died before their time. The seventh grandchild is a young lady who, as the Read More

1992
Cei Care Platesc Cu Viata

Actors: Adrian Pintea, Gheorghe Visu, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Not long after World War I, the politicians are back to business as usual in the lovely city of Bucharest. In this political melodrama, a journalist has his sights set on one of these politicians and hopes to get his paper to expose him as the scoundrel he is. However, when the politician and his Read More

1991