Produced by: MANEKINO FILM
Co-Producers: FILMEX ROMANIA
Financed by the Cinema Studio of the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
FESTIVALS
- Tiger Awards Shorts Competition Rotterdam Film Festival 2010
- BAFICI Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2010
- Warszaw International Film Festival 2010
- Montpellier International Film Festival 2010
- Bilbao International Film Festival 2010
- Cork International Film Festival Ireland 2010
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2010
- Tampere International Film Festival 2011
- Indielisboa International Film Festival 2010
- Rio de Janeiro Femina International Film Festival 2010
SYNOPSIS
The film is a free re-construction of a real case: a man tried to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder, to escape the communist Romania. Yet, the facts are reinterpreted in a highly subjective vision. A hybrid of fiction, documentary and video art, blending stylized, rigorously constructed re-enactments with strange archive materials, in visuals and sounds of a haunting quality, the film depicts an emotional landscape, a man’s inner journey towards a healing hereafter.
During the communist dictatorship in Romania (1945-1989), thousands of people risked their lives in the attempt to run away from the country. Despair made them invent the most incredible methods to cross the border illegally. Some of them managed to escape, but many lost their lives in these attempts.
CAST & CREW
- with: CEZAR ANTAL, ADRIANA MOCCA, GABRIEL SPAHIU RUDY ROSENFELD
- written, directed, co-edited, co-sound designer by ADINA PINTILIE
- director of photography: MARIUS IACOB
- editing and sound: TUDOR PETRE
- set / costume Designer: ANDRADA CHIRIAC
- music: CRISTI LOLEA / MARIUS GALEA
- executive producer: DOINA DRAGNEA
- associate producer: RIK VERMEULEN
STILLS
2010
year of production
40 min
running time
35mm
exhibition format
1:1.85
aspect ratio
2.1 stereo
sound
Romanian
language
English
subtitles