Director : Lucian Pintilie
Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bléont, George Constantin, Olga Tudorache, Ion Pavlescu
Feature film, Fiction
Production language : Romanian
Nationality : Majority French (Romania)
French release : 6/15/94
Runtime : 1h 22mn
Current status : Released
Associate production company : MK2
Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
French distribution : MKL Distribution
Film export/Foreign Sales : MK2

Romania in the Twenties. In a border town on the left bank of the Danube, the town house of Madame Vorvoreanu, one of the great ladies of the old Romanian nobility, glitters with the lights of the ball to which all the local nobility has been invited. The young Dumitriu couple are the toast of the town ; he is a Captain in the Romanian army, a pure product of the Prussian military school, while she, Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy, a prodigious "Middle European" beauty, is Hungarian on her father's side. The young woman, who is passionately in love with her husband and children, scorns the advances of General Ipsilanti, which leads the Dumitriu family to be transferred to an isolated garrison on the far side of the Danube, in the Dodroudja region...

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