Last Stop ParadiseDirected by Lucian Pintilie
Produced by mk2
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 48 min
French release : 07/10/1998
Production year : 1998
DirectorActorsSynopsisOn the outskirts of Bucharest one hot summer day, Norica, a young waitress and Mitu, a pig farm worker, meet, taunt each other and play at who will drink and dare the most. Next morning, Mitu’s mind is a blank. What happened between them? But their affair is more than a shot in the dark. It could easily gel into something like marriage, if it weren’t for two blots on the horizon: Norica’s intention to marry Gili, her 50-year-old boss and lover, and the sudden news that Mitu has been drafted into the army for two years. AboutMitu Cafanu is my most radical character to date. His stubbornness and his fury against privileges, which gradually build up to fever pitch, give him the luminous, even mystical aura of an idiot — in fact the film could have been named “The Idiot”. His radicality doesn’t show so obviously at first, because of his absurdist humor, but underneath it’s always there. Naturally, he also applies it to his games of love and luck. (Lucian Pintilié)
Production and distributionAssociate production company : mk2
Foreign production company : Studio de Création Cinématographique du Ministère de la Culture Roumaine
Film export/Foreign Sales : mk2
French distribution : mk2
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Marin Karmitz
Screenwriters : Lucian Pintilie, Rasvan Popescu, Radu Aldulescu
Director of Photography : Silviu Stavila
Sound Recordists : Andreï Pap, Jean-Bernard Thomasson
Press Attaché (film) : Monica Donati
Editors : Claudine Bouché, Victoria Nae
Production Designer : Calin Papura
Costume Designer : Catalina Ghibu
Still Photographer : Jérémie Nassif
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama
Production language : Romanian
Nationality : Majority French (Romania)
Production year : 1998
French release : 07/10/1998
Runtime : 1 h 48 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 92.666
Visa issue date : 14/10/1998
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
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