Romania is a subtitle country: in cinemas and on television, foreign films are watched in their original language, and dubbing is almost only for cartoons and children's films. That makes a film dubbed into Romanian rare, and useful precisely for people who don't enjoy reading subtitles: young children, people with poor eyesight, anyone who wants to watch the film rather than read it. MovieCineLab dubs a film into Romanian automatically, with one voice per character.
Listen: Charade in Romanian
Three minutes of Charade (1963) dubbed into Romanian, untouched: Regina, Sylvie, Peter Joshua and an extra, each with their own voice.
Real lines, from English to Romanian
| Character | Original (English) | Dubbed · Romanian |
|---|---|---|
| Regina Lampert Charade (1963) | He's hiding something from me, Sylvie, something terrible, and it frightens me. | Îmi ascunde ceva, Sylvie, ceva teribil, și mă sperie. |
| Peter Joshua Charade (1963) | Do we know each other? | Ne cunoaștem? |
| Regina Lampert Charade (1963) | Why, do you think we're going to? | Cum, c-o să ne cunoaștem? |
| Regina Lampert Charade (1963) | Until one of them dies, I couldn't possibly meet anyone else. | Până moare unul dintre ei, n-aș putea cunoaște pe nimeni altcineva. |
| Peter Joshua Charade (1963) | Shakespeare never said that. | Shakespeare n-a spus asta niciodată. |
| Peter Joshua Charade (1963) | You just made it up. | Ai inventat-o. |
| Johnny Night of the Living Dead (1968) | They're coming to get you, Barbara. | Vin să te ia, Barbara. |
| Popeye Popeye: Assault and Flattery (1956) | Your Honor, I'm innocent. | Onorată Instanță, sunt nevinovat. |
Lines exactly as they came out of the automatic dubbing of the example films, untouched.
Popeye's judge becomes «Onorată Instanță», the formula used to address the court in Romania. «Cum, c-o să ne cunoaștem?» uses the contracted spoken form: the translation aims for the register of a conversation rather than a book, and shortens where it needs to so it fits the actress's timing.
Native Romanian voices
For Romanian, the dubbing doesn't use the same voices as the other languages. It starts from native Romanian voices, which read the lines with the right pronunciation, and then gives each one the timbre of the actor it replaces, taken from a few seconds of that actor's voice in the film. The result is good, not perfect: listen to the clip before you decide.
What you get
- The film dubbed into Romanian, in full, as MP4.
- Subtitles as SRT in the film's language and in Romanian, included.
- The screenplay as PDF and Fountain, included with the dubbing. It is written in Italian, English, French, Spanish or German: not in Romanian.
Who it's for
For anyone screening a classic to Romanian children and teenagers who can't yet read subtitles quickly. For filmmakers who want a Romanian edition of their film. For Romanian communities and associations abroad.
What it costs
One minute from your pack for every minute of film: a 90-minute film dubbed into Romanian uses 90 minutes. If the job fails, the minutes go back into your pack.
They don't expireYour minutes stay in your account until you use them.
10 free minutesWhen you sign up we dub 10 minutes of one of your films for free, in one language.
If a job failsThe minutes go back into your pack.
Other languages: Polish, Russian, Italian. The method is explained on the multi-voice dubbing page.