The film starts pretty slow and straight-forwardly. Good, but almost ordinary storytelling. The setting is the 1920's in Bucharest and we get to have a feeling of that time and place. We learn of the obvious traits of all the characters. Emilia is promiscuous. Ladima is too nice and platonic (man of integrity). Fred was/is madly in love with a woman (Madame T), but nothing is c...
Romania after December 1989 ... A shipyard on the banks of the Danube, in the "transition period", insecure and turbulent that confuses, overturns the scale of values, not without leaving behind countless victims. Appreciated worker, former dissident who, during Ceausescu's time, paid years in prison for his dissatisfaction, Fane (Remus Margineanu) becomes unemployed, precisely...
The action of the film begins in 1917, "in Bucharest temporarily busy" by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies. The German commander recruited a flock of sheep , loaded them into a freight train, also loaded a few wagons with hayed hay, and urged the police to send 15 people to take care of the sheep on the road. A commissioner captures 15-20 unaccountable people in a raid on...