12:08 East Bucharest
(A Fost Sau n-a Fost?)
89 minutes, 2006
Sat. Oct 7, 8:00PM, Rafael
EAST07R 
New Addition to the Schedule as a
replacement for "A Guest of Life"
Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, Corneliu Porumboiu’s tragicomic blend of bitterness and poignancy is reminiscent of the great 1960s Czech political comedies by Forman, Passer and Menzel. The story unfolds at Christmastime in a small Romanian town, 16 years after the fall of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Unlike Bucharest, where the real street fighting took place, this town remained relatively peaceful in 1989. But now, Jderescu, the hilariously pretentious. Greek-philosophy-quoting owner of the local TV station, uses his call-in show to pose a provocative question to the town: Was there a revolution here? His show features two guests: Manescu, a perpetually drunk schoolteacher living on his memories of heroic resistance, and Piscoci, an aging widower who fatalistically reminds us that “one makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.” —Larry Gross, Telluride Film Festival
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Producer: Daniel Burlac, Corneliu Porumboiu
Screenwriter: Corneliu Porumboiu
Cinematographer: Marius Panduru
Editor: Roxana Szel
Cast: Mircea Andreescu, Teo Corban, Ion Sapdaru
Print Source: Artroumain , Artificial Eyes (UK)
tel: +33 6 33 26 09 83
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