Synopsis
Bucharest, 1988. After her father dies, Nela leaves to teach in another town, where she meets Mitiçà. The couple, like Tristan and Isolde at the gates of the Orient, cannot live out their love according to the rules. A series of events - floods, pollution, Mitiçà's arrest, military manoeuvres and massacres - split up our heroes...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Parnasse Production/Parnasse International
- Co-productions : La Sept Cinéma, Scarabée Films, mk2 films
- Foreign production company : Studio de Création Cinématographique du Ministère de la Culture Roumaine
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : mk2 films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Sylvain Bursztejn
- Screenwriter : Lucian Pintilie
- Director of Photography : Doru Mitran
- Editor : Victorita Nae
- Sound Recordist : Andreï Papp
- Costume designer : Svetlana Mihailescu
- Foreign Producer : Lucian Pintilie
- Author of original work : Ion Baiesu
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Production Designer : Calin Papura
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Romanian
- Coproducer countries : Romania (70.0%), France (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : No