In the Romanian countryside during the 30s, a few years before World War II, a villager named Ilie Moromete is desperately trying to organize his life according to traditional local values and instill them into his family. But times are changing and the first signs of a new age are looming on the horizon. An exemplary adaptation of a thousand-page classic novel, the film presents a memorable collection of characters and revisits a critical period in Romanian history with sympathy and humour, by attaching a universal significance to the chronicle of a family dissolution.
The Moromete Family
Moromeții
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Stere Gulea
- Script: Stere Gulea (based on the same-titled novel by Marin Preda)
- Cinematography: Vivi Drăgan Vasile
- Editing: Mircea Ciocâltei
- Sound: Gheorghe Ilarian
- Music: Cornelia Tăutu
- Actors: Victor Rebengiuc, Luminița Gheorghiu, Gina Patrichi
- Costumes: Svetlana Mihailescu
- Sets: Daniel Raduta
- Camera: Constantin Calistru
- Make Up: Aurelia Baciu
- Format: 35mm
- Color: B&W
- Production Country: Romania
- Production Year: 1987
- Duration: 151΄
- Contact: Romanian Film Centre
- Awards/Distinctions: Grand Prix, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Costumes, Best Music, Best Editing, Diploma of Honor – ACIN 1987 Best Actor – San Remo 1988, Italy 3rd Award, Best Actor – Santarém 1988, Portugal Gra
Stere Gulea
Stere Gulea was born in 1943 in Constanța. He is of Aromanian origin. Apart from his best known feature Morometii / The Moromete Family (1987), he also co-directed the documentary Piata Universitatii – Romania / University Square – Romania (1991), a presentation of the one-month long rally in University Place, Bucharest, where Romanian people demonstrated against the neo-communist government which had taken power after the toppling of communist dictator Ceausescu. After 1989, Stere Gulea became a respected civil society activist.
Filmography
1978 Iarba Verde de Acasă | The Green Grass of Home
1981 Castelul din Carpați | Castle of the Carpathians
1983 Ochi de urs | The Bear’s Eye
1987 Moromeții | The Moromete Family
1991 Piața Universității – Romania | University Square – Romania (doc)
1993 Vulpe – Vânător | Fox – Hunter
1996 Stare de Fapt | State of Things
2004 Hacker
2009 Weekend Cu Mama | Weekend with My Mother
2013 Sunt o babă comunistă | I Am an Old Communist Hag
2018 Moromeții 2 | The Moromete Family 2
