Otilia and Gabita share the same room in a student dormitory. They are fellow students at the university in this small town in Romania, during the last years of communism. One day, Otilia books a room in a cheap hotel. In the afternoon, they are going to meet a certain Mr. Bebe. Gabita is pregnant, abortion is illegal and none of them have gone through anything like this before. The film belongs to a larger project called Tales from the Golden Age – a subjective history of communism in Romania through its urban legends. The project’s aim is to talk about that period with no direct reference to communism, but only through different stories focused on personal options in a time of misfortune, when people had to pretend like everything was normal.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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- Script: Cristian Mungiu
- Cinematography: Oleg Mutu
- Editing: DanaBunescu
- Sound: Titi Fleancu, Dana Bunescu, Cristian Tarnovetchi
- Actors: Anamaria Marinca (Otilia), Vlad Ivanov (Dr.Bebe), Laura Vasiliu (Gabita), Alexandru Potoceanu (Adi)
- Production: Mobra Films, Romania T.-F. +40 21 666 4827 info@mobrafilms.ro www.mobrafilms.ro
- Producer/Producers: Oleg Mutu, Cristian Mungiu
- Co-production: Saga Film, Romania T. +40 21 317 3360 F. +40 21 317 3364 sagafilm@sagafilm.ro www.sagafilm.ro
- Art Direction: Michaela Poenaru
- Costumes: Dana Istrate
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Romania
- Production Year: 2007
- Duration: 113
- Distribution in Greece: Spentzos Film SA Irini Papadaki Τ. +30 210 3839 463 F. +30 210 3821 438 spentzos@otenet.gr www.spentzosfilm.gr
- World Sales: Wild Bunch, France T. +33 1 5301 5020 F. +33 1 5301 5049 www.wildbunch.biz
Palme d’Or, FIPRESCI Award, The French National Education Administration Prize – Cannes IFF 2007 FIPRESCI Award for Best Film of the Year – San Sebastian IFF 2007 Best Director & Best Film Awards – European Film Academy 2007 Best Foreign Language Film – US National Society of Film Critics 2008 |