The Enchanted Grove
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“A little girl and her dog in a enchanted journey”
Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile woman who considers children the bane of all existence. Lizuca and the dachshund escape the wicked stepmother and spend the night in a hollow tree, a tree that changes into an enchanted land where Lizuca (like Alice through the Looking Glass) discovers a world of characters in the form of bees, frogs, the four seasons, Snow White, her dwarves, and other fairy tale creatures. This magic place is threatened by the evil stepmother's plan to sell the grove that protects the secret land to developers -- a decision that puts the woman on trial before this perfidy can be realized.
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Diana Muscă
Lizuca
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Im Wald der Feen
Ernest Maftei
Grandfather
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Elena Drăgoi
Grandmother
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Im Wald der Feen
Florina Cercel
Stepmother
Known for
Pu-239
Matei Alexandru
Father
Known for
The Oak
Draga Olteanu Matei
Cucoana Emilia
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The Freckled Boy
Autumn of the Goslings
Ileana Stana Ionescu
Madam Neicu
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Blackmail
Escu
Cezara Dafinescu
Dream Fairy
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Toni Erdmann
Between Pain and Amen
Rodica Popescu Bitănescu
The maid
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Miss Litoral
Secretul lui Nemesis
Maria Ploae
Mother
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Bless You, Prison
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Eugenia Maci
Bee fairy
Gheorghe Naghi Director · Draga Olteanu Matei Writer Mihail Sadoveanu Writer
First release January 1, 1980 · Produced in Romania · Production Centrul de Productie Cinematografica Bucuresti
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Centrul de Producție Cinematografică București
Production
Centrul de Productie Cinematografica Bucuresti
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Romania
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Original title
Dumbrava minunată
Original language
Romanian
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Romanian
Release dates
Romania · January 1, 1980
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