Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

A smart hotel on the Black Sea coast. Gogu, one of the staff, is visited by his uncle Marin, a peasant from Oltenia who has never had much to do with cities. Gogu puts him in a room that happens to be empty. It is in fact being held for an expected American billionaire, Mr Juvett. Everyone at the hotel is delighted by Marin's peasant clothes, and Marin cannot work out any of the hotel's gadgets. Meanwhile the local gang hears that Juvett has arrived and starts following the wrong man. Sergiu Nicolaescu directs, with Amza Pellea as Marin. Eighty-eight minutes. It remains one of the most watched comedies in Romania, and Pellea's Oltenian character became a legend there in its own right.