Elixirul Tineretii

Romania • 1975 • 90m •

• Directed by: Gheorghe Naghi. • Starring: Aura Andritoiu, Aurel Cioranu, Melania Cârje, Dorina Done, Mihai Fotino, Alexandru Matei, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Marin Moraru, Gheorghe Naghi, Florin Piersic, Stela Popescu, Anna Széles, Stefan Tapalaga..

An old geriatrics professor accidentally discovers after a high-school reunion a potion that can rejuvenate anybody and uses it on him and his friends. They all go their new youthful ways but, for most of them, things don't go according to plan.

Review:

The film is a thin syrup, which means it has no charm, a script written for stupid children, exactly how it was desired in the communist regime, no one should think, just work, that's all, slaves without a brain, without personality. The cult of personality had already begun for the supreme ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, only who lived then knows! A pleasant meeting with Stela Popescu, who is the most beautiful and pleasant in the whole movie, and with Melania Cârje, who had a unique charm. Everyone else, all the actors, including Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, who had a huge comic potential, all are painful, childish. It is not communist propaganda, no, but just a movie made for the sacrificial generation, the Ceausescu generation, also known as the "Golden Age". Monica Ghiuta, she is young and very beautiful, but she has just the painful role of a militia-woman. Two stars, one for Stela Popescu, one for Melania Cârje.

Review by RodrigAndrisan from the Internet Movie Database.

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