PREVIOUS FILM FROM 2021
GOLDEN BEAR WINNER
Based on a true story. Romania, 1981.
Ceaușescu is in office, leading a communist Romania. He writes the official story with the help of the National Television.
Mugur Călinescu, a 16 y.o. teenager, writes another story on walls with chalked uppercase protest messages against the regime. His actions are compiled in a voluminous file kept by the Secret Police (Securitate), which observed, apprehended, interrogated and destroyed him.
Linking both stories - secret and public - personal and collective - brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.
Ceaușescu is in office, leading a communist Romania. He writes the official story with the help of the National Television.
Mugur Călinescu, a 16 y.o. teenager, writes another story on walls with chalked uppercase protest messages against the regime. His actions are compiled in a voluminous file kept by the Secret Police (Securitate), which observed, apprehended, interrogated and destroyed him.
Linking both stories - secret and public - personal and collective - brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.
Director
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. He studied filmmaking in Bucharest and started his career as an assistant director. In 2006, he made the short film “The Tube with a Hat”, winner of more than 50 in- ternational awards.
Jude's feature debut “The Happiest Girl in the World” (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals.
Titles such as “Aferim!”, “Scarred Hearts” and “Everybody in Our Family” followed and won multiple awards: Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlinale 2015, Special Jury Prize in Locarno 2016 and an EFA nomination for Best Scriptwriter. The international premiere of “ The Dead Nation” in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film.
His latest feature "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary.
Jude's feature debut “The Happiest Girl in the World” (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals.
Titles such as “Aferim!”, “Scarred Hearts” and “Everybody in Our Family” followed and won multiple awards: Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlinale 2015, Special Jury Prize in Locarno 2016 and an EFA nomination for Best Scriptwriter. The international premiere of “ The Dead Nation” in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film.
His latest feature "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary.
Cast & crew
Producer
Ada Solomon for MicroFILM (Toni Erdmann, Child’s Pose, Radu Jude’s Films)
Co-production
Romanian Public Television,
Hi Film Productions
SCREENWRITERS
Radu Jude
Gianina Cărbunariu
CAST
Bogdan Zamfir (Young Ahmed, The Apparition)
Șerban Lazarovici
Ioana Iacob
Șerban Pavlu
DOP
Marius Panduru
EDITOR
Cătălin Cristuțiu
Festivals and awards
- BERLINALE FORUM
- VILNIUS IFF
- SARAJEVO IFF
- MOLODIST
- INDIELISBOA
- HAMBURG IFF
- FIC VALDIVIA
- FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA
- BERGEN IFF
- PACIFIC MERIDIAN
- FILM FESTIVAL GENT
- VIENNALE
- GOLDEN APRICOT YEREVAN FF
- MESSAGE TO MAN
- THESSALONIKI IFF
- MINSK IFF
- ZAGREB IFF
- GIJON IFF
- CAIRO IFF
- ROFEST
- TRIESTE IFF
“A fierce and impassioned
denunciation of evil.”
denunciation of evil.”
“Kafka meets Brecht with a splash
of Pop Art (...). It delivers a quietly
devastating emotional punch.”
of Pop Art (...). It delivers a quietly
devastating emotional punch.”
“Accessible and involving.”
“Visually striking.”
“Visually striking.”
