Lucian Pintilie
Filmography 1965 Duminica la ora 6 / Sunday at 6 1968 Reconstituirea / Reenactment 1973 Pavilionul nr. 6 / Ward at 6 1979 De ce trag clopotele, Mitica? / Carnival Scenes 1992 Balanta / The Oak 1994 O vara de neuitat / An Unforgettable Summer 1996 Prea tîrziu / Too Late 1998 Terminus Paradis / Next Stop Paradise 2000 Dupa amiaza unui tortionar / The Afternoon of a Torturer 2003 Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezerva / Niki and Flo 2006 Tertium non datur (short film) He was born in 1933 in modern-day Ukraine. A graduate of the Cinema and Theater Art Institute, sine 1990 he has been the director of the Cinema Creation Studio of the Romanian Culture Ministry. His first film, Sunday at Six, won six international awards. In 1998, his film Next Stop Paradise received the Grand Prize at Venice. |
Balkan Survey
 Spring of 1944.A Romanian military unit in the Ukrainian steppe receives the unexpected visit of a German general and major.The soldiers are hungry and are looking to get a good meal.The young major reveals to the hosts that he owns the famous auroch˘s head, the Romanian stamp of which only two copies exist in the world–Tertium non datur (a third is not given). Inexplicably, the stamp disappears.The Romanian general orders a humiliating body search.The only one who refuses the search as dishonorable is captain Tomut. In the end, the stamp is found–it had stuck to the bottom of a bowl. The Germans leave.Tomut explains that he had on him a third auroch˘s head, a alisman-gift from his mother.
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