Sequences

Secvențe

The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work on two different jobs. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner, through no fault of his own, is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
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Direction: Alexandru Tatos
Script: Alexandru Tatos
Cinematography: Florin Mihăilescu
Editing: Iulia Vincenz
Sound: Horea Murgu, Marius Canini
Actors: Geo Barton, Ion Vălcu, Emilia Dobrin-Besoiu, Mircea Diaconu, Constantin Drăgănescu, Dragoş Pâslaru, Ioana Manolescu, George Paul Avram, Luminiţa Gheorghiu
Production: Film Company 4
Producers: Vasilica Istrate, Bogdan Burileanu
Art Direction: Andrei Borth, Nicolae Şchiopu
Costumes: Svetlana Mihăilescu, Andreea Hasnaş
Make Up: Aurelia Baciu
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Romania
Production Year: 1982
Duration: 103΄
Contact: Romanian National Film Archive, anf@xnet.ro
Awards/Distinctions: Best Director – ACIN Romanian Awards 1982

Alexandru Tatos

Alexandru Tatos (1937–1990) was a Romanian film director and writer. He was also a prolific stage director, who graduated from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts, department of staging and drama. Tatos directed six episodes of the TV series An August in Flames before making his debut in cinema with the film Red Apples in 1976.

Filmography

1976 Mere roșii | Red Apples
1978 Rătăcire | Ashtray
1979 Duios Anastasia trecea | Anastasia Gently Passes
1980 Casa dintre câmpuri | The House between the Fields
1982 Secvențe | Sequences
1983 Fructe de pădure | Wood Berries
1986 Întunecare | Gathering Clouds
1988 Secretul armei secrete | The Secret of the Secret Weapon
1990 Cine are dreptate? | Who’s Right?