Inspired by a true story, the film presents a TV reporter’s journalistic investigation into alleged American “flying prisons” in Romania. Through a combination of circumstances, following a mysterious File 631,…
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn’t work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French…
Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined…
“Occident” is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three…
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police,…
A description of Romania before Ceausescu’s downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her…
The autopsy of a deceased girl finds that the victim had died long before the accident. Taking over the case, “Grandpa” and his assistant, Panaitescu, discover that the perpetrator of…
