Nicolae Albani

Venu pour inaugurer une éolienne, le sénateur désire manger des escargots. Comme au temps de Ceaușescu, tous les habitants du village sont mobilisés pour en trouver. Un drame survient, mais le sénateur, déçu par son dîner, ne veut pas s’en mêler.

The best workers from various factories in the communist system are rewarded a cruise on the Danube. The people in charge fight for bureaucratic reasons while the young ones are looking for adventure.

In a devastating story rife with visual metaphors, Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc traces the slow mental disintegration of a confirmed gambler, using his disorder as an allusion to a greater national and social disorder. Set in the 1930s, the middle-class gambler meets an elderly man who seems to bring him good luck at the gaming tables. Rather than treasure his friendship and the good fortune it brings, the gambler takes advantage of his friend, and by his actions drives the man to suicide. Unable to reconcile his own mental demons, the gambler wanders through the house of his dead friend, and his experiences there only serve to unsettle his mind more and more and more. In the last reels of the film, the fantasies of the hero's deranged mind take over.

Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.

A love story between a worker and an architecture student from a well to do family that has to overcome prejudice.