Nelly Sterian

Un dialogue sans science-fiction roumaine espion-comédie qui fait appel à la farce, la satire et le surréalisme comme il déconstruit subversivement le thriller d'espionnage avec la découverte accidentelle du protagoniste d'une bombe valise nucléaire et la lutte ultérieure sur la propriété entre les puissances rivales des criminels et la militaire.

In this undistinguished drama, Darclee (Silvia Popovici) is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want. Matei Jacob directs.

This movie is a screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Horia Lovinescu. It follows a "bourgeois" family as it copes with the emerging communist regime. Different members of the family take different paths.

A bourgeois family life in Romania around the time of the Great Peasant Uprising of 1907.

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.

A fashion designer creates an ugly model and he won't back down against all advice.