The Daring Pilot Aurel Vlaicu (1977)

107 min. - Film biografic - AG - 27.04.1978

Aurel Vlaicu is a young man born in Bintinti, Transylvania. His dream is to built a flying machine, so he studies engineering in Budapest and Munich, then comes back home. He first builds a glider, and the first person to fly on it is his 5 year old sister Valeria, in 1909. Then he goes to Bucharest and there, with the support of the most important personalities of the Romanian culture of the time, he builds his first airplane and flies it on June, 17th, 1010. His ideal is to unite Romania and Transylvania by flying over the Carpathians, but while trying this historic flight he crashes and dies, on August 31st / September 13th 1913.

Regie: Mircea Drăgan

Scenariu: Eugenia Busuioceanu

Actori principali: Gabriel Oseciuc, Radu Beligan, Octavian Cotescu

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Distribuție

	Gabriel Oseciuc	Aurel Vlaicu
	Radu Beligan	Ilarie Chendi
	Octavian Cotescu	Alexandru Vlahuţă
	Toma Dimitriu	Dumitru Vlaicu
	Maria Voluntaru	Ana Vlaicu
	Ionel Popovici	Ion Vlaicu
	Ioana M. Drăgan	Valeria Vlaicu
	Violeta Andrei	Elena Caragiani
	Emanoil Petruţ	Spiru Haret
	Dina Cocea	Aristizza Romanescu
	Gheorghe Cozorici	D.D. Pătrășcanu
	Ioana Drăgan	soția Primului ministru
	Valentin Teodosiu	Radu Abrudeanu
	Alexandru Repan	Prințul Valentin Bibescu
	Ritta Feldmayer	Lotte
	George Paul Avram	The Lawyer
	Dem Rădulescu	I.L. Caragiale
	Ştefan Tapalagă	Traian Vuia
	Constantin Dinulescu	Vasile Morțun
	Liviu Rozorea	Octavian Goga
	Adrian Pintea	Șt.O. Iosif
	Günther Drescher	secretarul
	Peter Schuch	prof. Ebberth
	Valentin Mihali	mecanicul
	Mircea Bașta	col. Miclescu
	Ion Pascu	Vasile Gligor
	Raimund Binder	Robert Wells
	Constantin Bărbulescu	Regele Carol I
	Constantin Brînzea	Mircea Zorileanu
	Chiril Economu	Nicolae Filipescu
	Constantin Brezeanu	Bogdan Pitești
	Ion Henter	The Businessman
	Cornelia Oseciuc	Miruna Tănăsescu
	Marcel Iureş	Michel Molla
	Mihai Vasile Boghiță
	Virginia Rogin
	Simion Negrilă
	Aurora Șotropa
	Ion Niciu
	Wilhelmina Câta
	Radu Dunăreanu
	Eugen Popescu	Mihail Cerchez
	Michael Bleitziffer	Müller
	Ion Micu	Roland Garros
	Nicolae Urs

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Echipa de filmare

Regie

Mircea Drăgan

Scenariu

Eugenia Busuioceanu

Producători

Dumitru Fernoagă
Sanda Mănescu	directorul filmului

Imagine

George Cristea

Muzică

Theodor Grigoriu

Montaj

Lucia Anton

Decoruri

Mihai Beciu

Costume

Nelly Merola

Machiaj

Ana Stan

Sunet

Silviu Camil
Vasile Luca