An orientation contest in a forest is the pretext to analyze the relations among the members of a small group of people. Their lack of character will come out when they show indifference to the perpetration of a crime.
The Contest
Concurs
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- Direction: Dan Piţa
- Script: Dan Piţa
- Cinematography: Vlad Păunescu
- Editing: Cristina Ionescu
- Sound: Sotir Creangă
- Music: Adrian Enescu
- Actors: Gheorghe Dinică, Marin Moraru, Ştefan Iordache, Valentin Uritescu, Claudiu Bleonţ, Vladimir Juravle, Teodor Danetti, Adriana Şchiopu, Jorj Voicu, Vasile Niţulescu, Dragoş Pâslaru, Oana Pellea
- Production: Film Company 3
- Costumes: Irina Katz
- Sets: Călin Papură
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Romania
- Production Year: 1982
- Duration: 96΄
- Contact: Romanian National Film Archive, anf@xnet.ro
- Awards/Distinctions: Βραβείο FIPRESCI – New Delhi IFF 1985, Best Director – ACIN Romanian Awards 1982
Dan Piţa
Dan Piţa, acclaimed Romanian director, writer, producer, an emblematic figure of the Generation ’70 movement in Romanian Cinema, graduated Romanian Film and Drama Academy in 1970. He worked in television, theatre, and cinema, and won awards at many film festivals around the world for his film d’auteur. He was a director who often found himself in the situation of a cultural outlaw for the communist regime. His film Faleze de nisip / Sand Cliffs made Ceausescu angry and Dan Pita was banned for half a decade to make movies. After 20 films, he always says before shooting a new movie that "I feel I’m doing my first movie. I care about poor people – their dreams, their lives. And I think that life and its stories are endless."
Filmography
1967 Paradisul | Paradise
1972 Nunta de piatră | The Stone Wedding | Πέτρινος γάμος (co-direction: Mircea Veroiu)
1975 Filip cel Bun | Filip the Kind
1982 Concurs | The Contest
1983 Faleze de nisip | Sand Cliffs
1985 Pas în doi | Passo Doble
1989 Noiembrie, ultimul bal | The Last Ball in November
1992 Hotel de lux | Luxury Hotel
1994 Pepe si Fifi | Pepe and Fifi
1996 Eu sunt Adam! | My Name Is Adam
2005 Second hand | Second Hand
2013 Kira Kiralina | Kira Kiralina
