1. Movies, books, vacations and a pandemic / 17
2. What movies have I seen before / 33
1. "Black Eyes" (1987) by Nikita Mikhalkov / 34
2. "Sick connections" (2006) by Tudor Giurgiu / 35
3. "Every day I miss you" (1987) by Gheorghe Vitanidis / 36
4. "Maria, Queen of Romania" (2019) by Alexis Cahill / 37
5. "The Crown" (2016 - 2023) / 39
6. "Holding the Man" (2015) by Neil Armfield / 42
7. "Master of Lies" (2019) by Bill Condon / 43
8. "The Two Popes" (2019) by Fernando Meirelles / 45
9. "Joker" (2019) by Todd Phillips / 45
10. "House of Flowers" (2018 - 2020) by Manolo Caro / 48
11. I Really Care (2020) by J. Blakeson / 48
12. "The Shtisel Family" (2013 – 2021) by Alon Zingman / 49
13. "Once upon a time in Odessa" (2016) by Serghei Ginzburg / 50
14. "Chernobyl" (2019) by Danil Kozlovskiy / 51
15. "The Turn" (2018) by Dean Kapsalis / 52
16. "Cabin" (2017 - 2018) by Camille Bordes-Resnais / 53
17. “State v. O.J. Simpson" (2016) / 55
18. "The Strange Agent" (1974) by Savel Stiopul / 57
19. "Elite" (2018 – 2022) / 58
20. "Monsters" (2019) by Marius Olteanu / 59
21. "My Heart" (2002) by Thaddeus O'Sullivan / 61
22. "He and Siberia" (2019) by Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy / 62
23. "Station for two" (1983) by Eldar Ryazanov / 63
24. "One step after the seraphim" (2017) by Daniel Sandu / 65
25. "The Trip" (2021) by Tommy Wirkola / 66
26. "Loves of a Blonde" (1965) by Milos Forman / 68
27. "Snow, Tea and Love" (2021) by Cătălin Bugean / 69
28. "The secret of happiness" (2018) by Vlad Zamfirescu / 70
29. "Red heather" (1974) by Vasili Şukşin / 72
30. "Humanity Street, Number 8" (2021) by Dany Boon / 75
31. "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu" (2010) by A. Ujică / 77
32. "Horizon" (2015) by Marian Crișan / 79
33. "I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians" (2018) by Radu Jude / 81
34. "Dogs" (2016) by Bogdan Mirică / 84
35. "Hawaii" (2017) by Jesus del Cerro / 86
36. "Sunflower" (1970) by Vittorio de Sica / 88
37. "Hand of God" (2021) by Paolo Sorrentino / 90
38. "Dad moves mountains" (2021) by Daniel Sandu / 91
39. Don't Look Up (2021) by Adam McKay / 93
40. "Lost in Space" (2018 - 2019) / 95
41. "Complete strangers" (2021) by Octavian Strunilă / 96
42. "Cruiser Potemkin" (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein / 99
43. "The Bar" (2017) by Álex de la Iglesia / 101
44. "Unforgivable" (2021) by Nora Fingscheidt / 103
45. "The Lost Daughter" (2021) by Maggie Gyllenhaal / 106
46. "The Lobster" (2015) by Yorgos Lanthimos / 108
47. "The Adversary" (2002) by Nicole Garcia / 109
48. "Sin City" (2005) by F. Miller and R. Rodriguez / 110
49. "Barbardeala with trouble or porno hangman" (2021) by Radu Jude / 112
50. "The Dance of Reality" (2013) by Alejandro Jodorowsky / 115
51. "A small inconvenience" (2020) by Bernabe Rico / 117
52. "Centralists" (2017 - 2020) / 118
53. "Angela goes further" (1981) by Lucian Bratu / 120
54. "Love at zero degrees" (1964) by Geo Saizescu and Cezar Grigoriu / 121
55. "Precious" (2009) by Lee Daniels / 122
56. "Color Trilogy: White" (1994) by Krzysztof Kieślowski / 122
57. "Siberia, Monamour" (2011) by Slava Ross / 123
58. "Attack in the library" (1992) by Mircea Drăgan / 124
59. "Adventure" (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni / 125
60. "A Leap Year" (1982) by Peter Weir / 127
61. "Hellenic love" (2010) by Geo Saizescu / 127
62. "A beautiful monster" (1971) by Sergio Gobbi / 128
63. "A man in loden" (1979) by Nicolae Mărgineanu / 129
64. "Broken Love" (1986) by Mike Nichols / 130
65. "Zavera" (2019) by Andrei Gruzsniczki / 131
66. "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1954) by R. Brooks / 133
67. "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz / 135
68. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) by Mike Nichols / 138
69. "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967) by Franco Zeffirelli / 140
70. "The Comedians" (1967) by Peter Glenville / 142
71. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967) by John Huston / 144
72. "Boom" (1968) by Joseph Losey / 146
73. "Hammersmith escaped" (1972) by Peter Ustinov / 150
74. "Ash Wednesday" (1973) by Larry Pierce / 152
75. "Identikit" (1974) by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi / 155
76. "The Blue Bird" (1976) by George Cukor / 157
77. "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) by Robert Aldrich / 159
78. "Cyanide and the Raindrop" (1978) by Manole Marcus / 161
79. "Masquerade" (2022) by Nicolas Bedos / 163
80. "Cazul Asunta" (2024) by Ramon Campos / 165
81. "Baby Reindeer" (2024) by Richard Gadd / 168
82. "Griselda" (2024) by Andres Baiz / 170
83. "Too hot for May" (1984) by Maria Callas Dinescu / 172
84. "The fourth flock" (1979) by Timotei Ursu / 174
85. "Ramon" (2023) by Jesus del Cerro / 176
86. "The action pack" (2023) by Vali Dobrogeanu / 177
87. "Nights of the Cabirie" (1957) by Federico Fellini / 179
88. "Spy/ Master" (2023) by Christopher Smith / 180
89. "Working people" (2022) by Paul Negoescu / 182
90. "Goodbye, dear Nela" (1972) by Cornel Todea / 183
91. "Taxi drivers" by Bogdan Theodor Olteanu / 185
92. "The goat with three goats" (2022) by Victor Canache / 188
93. "Favorita" (2018) by Giorgos Lanthimos / 190
94. "Mirciulića" (2022) by Cristian Ilișuan / 191
95. "The Lying Life of Adults" (2023) by Edoardo De Angelis / 193
96. "Teambuilding" (2022) by A. Cotet, M. Dima, C. Nedelcu / 194
97. "Odessa in flames" (1942) by Carmine Gallone / 196
98. "Love Sorry" (2022) by Iura Luncașu / 197
99. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (2022) by Laure de Clermont Tonnerre / 198
100. "Blonde" (2022) by Andrew Dominik / 201
101. "Servant of the people" (2015) by Aleksei Kiriushchenko / 202
3. What other books have I read / 205
1. "A Simple Favor" (2017) by Darcey Bell / 206
2. "I Was Goebbels' Secretary" (2018) by Brunhilde Pomsel & Thore D. Hansen / 207
3. "Odessa - Genius and Death in a City of Dreams" (2012) by Charles King / 208
4. "Born in the USSR" (2010) by Vasile Ernu / 209
5. “The Greta Garbo Syndrome. About celebrity and anonymity" (2020) by Aurora Liiceanu / 211
6. "Our Man from Havana" (1958) by Graham Greene / 212
7. "Enemy Ally" (1919, 1926) by N.A. Monkevitz and A.N. Vinogradsky / 212
8. "Gorbachev. His Life and Times” (2017) by William Taubman / 213
9. "Memoirs of Hadrian" (1951) by Marguerite Yourcenar / 215
10. "Leonardo da Vinci" (2000) by Michael White / 215
11. "Venice" (1960) by Jan Morris / 216
12. "Auschwitz - The Nazis and the Final Solution" (2005) by Laurence Rees / 217
13. "A Brief History of Europe, from Pericles to Putin" (2018) by Simon Jenkins / 218
14. "The Royal Couple Guide: My Adventure with Taylor Burton" (2018) by Yoram Ben Ami and Nat Segaloff / 218
15. "An apartment in Paris" (2017) by Guillaume Musso / 219
16. "Confessions of an Atheist Buddhist" (2010) by Stephen Batchelor / 220
17. "The Saga of the Windsor Dynasty" (2011) by Jean Des Cars / 221
18. "Days of Abandonment" (2002) by Elena Ferrante / 222
19. "An American Marriage" (2018) by Tayari Jones / 222
20. "Stalin's Daughter" (2015) by Rosemary Sullivan / 223
21. "How I went through communism" (2018) by Lucian Boia / 224
22. "Catherine the Great" (1977) by Henri Troyat / 224
23. "Testimony from Hell" (2008) by Immaculee Ilibagiza / 225
24. "The Three Emperors" (2009) by Miranda Carter / 225
25. "The Last Tsar" (2017) by Robert Service / 226
26. "Hell Unleashed" (2011) by Max Hastings / 227
27. "Crimea. The Last Crusade” (2011) by Orlando Figes / 228
28. "Ukrainian borscht" (2013) by Piotr Pogorzelski / 229
29. "Midnight at Pera Palace" (2014) by Charles King / 230
30. "Only With My Daughter" (1987) by Betty Mahmoody / 231
31. "The Saga of the Romanov Dynasty" (2008) by Jean Des Cars / 233
32. "Around the Earth in seven months and one day" (1924) by General C. Găvănescul / 233
33. "A woman from Berlin" (1954) by Anonima / 234
34. "Swans on Fifth Avenue" (2016) by Melanie Benjamin / 234
35. "Whispering. Private Life in Stalin's Russia" (2007) by Orlando Figes / 235
36. "Khrushchev, the man and his era" (1990) by William Taubman / 236
37. "My father, Beria" (2001) by Sergo Beria / 236
38. "Fontana di Trevi" (2011) by Gabriela Adameșteanu / 237
39. "The Devil's Alliance" (2014) by Roger Moorhouse / 238
40. "The Neapolitan Tetralogy" (2011- 2014) by Elena Ferrante / 238
41. "Red Alert" (2015) by Bill Browder / 239
42. "A History of Byzantium" (2005) by Timothy E. Gregory / 240
43. "Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar" (2007) by Virginia Vallejo / 241
44. "The Black Sea. A History" (2015) by Charles King / 242
45. "Lenin's Train" (2016) by Catherine Merridale / 243
46. "The Glory and Fall of Ana Pauker" (2001) by Robert Levy / 244
47. "A Day in Ancient Rome" (2009) by Alberto Angela / 245
48. "Around the Black Sea in 90 days" (2016) by Sabina Fati / 245
49. "Alone on the Silk Road" (2015) by Sabina Fati / 247
50. "Jesus, son of Dacia" (1997) by E. Delcea / 247
51. "A Bookshop in Berlin" (1945) by Françoise Frenkel / 248
52. "Cleopatra" (2010) by Stacy Schiff / 249
53. "I, Emperor Claudius" (1934) by Robert Graves / 250
54. "The Romanov family. Assassination, Revolution and the Fall of Imperial Russia" (2014) by Candace Fleming / 251
55. "Yalta: The price of peace" (2010) by Serhii M. Plohii / 252
56. "Catherine the Great & Potemkin" (2002) by Simon Sebag Montefiore / 252
57. "Chanel's Riviera" (2019) by Anne de Courcy / 254
58. "The Life of Arsenie Boca" (2018) by Tatiana Niculescu Bran / 256
59. "The Woman on the Orient Express" (2016) by Lindsay Jayne Ashford / 257
60. "The Volunteer" (2019) by Jack Fairweather / 258
61. "The Case of Dr. Kukotki" (2001) by Ludmila Ulitkaia / 259
62. "The German House" (2018) by Anette Hess / 260
63. "The castle, the library, the prison" (2013) by Dan C. Mihăilescu / 262
64. "The Wanderings of the Reckless Girl" (2006) by Mario Vargas Llosa / 263
65. "Nights of the Patriarch" (2019) by Tatiana Niculescu Bran / 264
66. "Seducer Donn Nae" (2020) by Tatiana Niculescu Bran / 265
67. "Tomorrow" (2013) by Guillaume Musso / 266
68. "Claudius the God" (1935) by Robert Graves / 267
69. "Maria, a queen at war" (2019) by Ion Bulei / 269
70. “Parallel lives. Five Victorian Marriages" (1983) by Phyllis Rose / 270
71. "An Accidental Feminist: Elizabeth Taylor" (2012) by M.G. Lord / 271
72. "Friendship Betrayed" (2017) by Christopher Bollen / 273
73. "In Stalin's team. The Dangerous Years of Soviet Politics" (2015) by Sheila Fitzpatrick / 275
74. "Lived miracles" (2021) by Corina Chiriac / 277
75. "The Paris Library" (2020) by Janet Skeslien Charles / 279
76. "Once upon a time there were two cities" (2021) by Mariana Neț / 280
77. "Lady L." (1965) by Romain Gary / 282
78. "Empresses, queens, princesses and their scandalous stories" (2005) by Philippe Delorme / 283
79. "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" (1983) by Sophia Loren / 284
80. "War and Peace" (1867) by Leo Tolstoy / 285
81. "Cursed Kings" (1955 - 1977) by Maurice Druon / 287
82. "Roadside Picnic" (1972) by A & B Strugatky / 288
83. "Les Miserables" (1862) by Victor Hugo / 291
84. "The Lost Bible" (2015) by Igor Bergler / 292
85. "The Dark Ages" (2017) by Catherine Nixey / 295
86. "War of Kings" (1986) by Theo Aronson / 298
87. "Death Armor" (1958) by Sven Hassel / 300
88. "Gestapo" (1963) by Sven Hassel / 301
89. "Nazi Wives" (2019) by James Wyllie / 302
90. "Russia: From Kievan Russia to the Present" (2017) by Christopher Ward and John Thompson / 304
91. "Gran Canaria" (1934) by A. J. Cronin / 306
92. "Letters from Russia" (1843) by the Marquis de Custine / 307
93. "History of the Middle Ages. A Thousand Years of Splendor and Villainy" (2016) by George Minois / 309
94. "Glory and Infamy" (2020) by Erik Larson / 310
95. "The summer my mother had green eyes" (2016) by Tatiana Ţibuleac / 311
96. "Chéri" and "The End of Chéri" (1920) by Colette / 312
97. "Uncomfortable Pitfalls of Sincerity in Couple" (2024) by Aurora Liiceanu / 313
98. "The fall. The Collapse of the Soviet Union" (2021) by Vladislav Zubok / 316
99. "Companion" (2021) by Lavinia Betea / 319
100. "Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar" (2003) by Simon Sebag Montefiore / 321
101. "Of the Dacians and Romans" (2023) by Dan Alexe / 324
4. What other books have I written / 328
5. Where have I been before / 331
1. Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn / 333
2. Antalya / 346
3. Tenerife and Gran Canaria / 350
4. Brașov / 364
5. Edirne and Istanbul / 366
6. Brittany, Normandy and Paris / 370
7. Prague and Karlovy Vary / 379
8. Madrid and Barcelona / 385
9. From Sveti Vlas to Burgas / 388
10. Hurghada, Luxor and Cairo / 389
11. Halkidiki / 394
6. By the same author / 398
1. "Odessa, step by step" / 398
2. "Odessa, seduction and passion" / 399
3. “Elizabeth Taylor. Dream of glory" / 400
4. "The Innocents" / 401
5. "Elizabeth Taylor - Cleopatra, the last queen" / 402
6. "The last time I saw Odessa" / 403