Balanta . The Oak
The first film by Lucian Pintilie after his return to Romania after 1989 portrays the country just before Ceausescu's downfall. It is the story of Nela, daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the Romanian political police. She refused to become an agent like her sister. After her fathe...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Romanian |
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Parnasse Production ; Scarabee Films ; MK2 Productions S.A.
1992
Romania |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e297f198-19cc-4c3c-80c9-4b6caeeef005 |
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| author2 | Pintilie, Lucian |
| author_facet | Pintilie, Lucian |
| collection | OSA Film Library |
| dateSpan | 1992 |
| description | The first film by Lucian Pintilie after his return to Romania after 1989 portrays the country just before Ceausescu's downfall. It is the story of Nela, daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the Romanian political police. She refused to become an agent like her sister. After her father dies, she leaves the capital and accepts a job outside Bucharest. She is gang-raped en route to her working place. She also learns that her father was something less than a hero. She ends up in a small town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, and they both defend themselves against the harsh and absurd reality of later-Ceausescu era Romania by adopting a shield of cynicism. The movie presents an absurd world that cannot be made sense of; one in which any human being would lose his/her identity or self-respect. |
| genre | libraryUnit |
| geographic | Romania |
| id | bulk_214F399C-D3EC-4A57-8D4A-12ED7DBA5AAA |
| institution | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| language | Romanian |
| publishDate | 1992 |
| publisher | Parnasse Production ; Scarabee Films ; MK2 Productions S.A. Romania |
| spellingShingle | Balanta . The Oak [Fiction film] |
| title | Balanta . The Oak |
| topic | [Fiction film] |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e297f198-19cc-4c3c-80c9-4b6caeeef005 |