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Amintiri din Epoca de Aur

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:39:13 +0200

Un film scris de Cristian Mungiu si regizat de Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hoefer, Razvan Marculescu, Contantin Popescu si Cristian Mungiu

Amintiri din Epoca de Aur ecranizeaza cele mai cunoscute legende urbane din Romania anilor 80 recuperind umorul care i-a ajutat pe romani sa supravietuiasca perioadei.

Cristian Mungiu: am vrut ca dupa 4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile, si pina la urmatorul meu film de autor sa ofer publicului roman o comedie iar Amintiri din Epoca de Aur, film episodic si colectiv, imbina punctele de vedere a cinci colegi de generatie carora le-a facut placere sa Recupereze sa Refoloseasca si Reconditioneze amintirile din perioada noptilor pierdute la bairamuri, video si cozi.

4 months 3 weeks and 2 days - Awards

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:37:08 +0200

Chronological order:

1) Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2007

2) International Critics Prize by FIPRESCI at Cannes Film Festival

3) FIPRESCI's Grand Prix - Best Film of the Year 2007 - awarded at San Sebastian Film Festival

4) The French National Education Administration Prize at Cannes Film Festival

5) Hollywood Film Award

6) 18th Stockholm International Film Festival - Best film & Best Actress - Anamaria Marinca

8) European Film Academy - Best European Film 2007 & Best European Director

9) Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best foreign language film & Best supporting actor Vlad Ivanov

Director's Statement

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:39:04 +0200

4 month, 3 weeks and 2 days is, first of all, for me, a story about personal choices. It is also a story about the subtle and often invisible consequences of indoctrination. It talks about friendship, responsibility and love. But it is mainly a story about abortion - set in a period when this was seen as an act of freedom and protest against the communist regime that banned abortion in the attempt of growing the number of disciplined working hands.

I remember this very clearly from my twenties: there was no moral issue about abortion - the biggest worry was that you could have been caught. It happened often that women died in the process but we spend very little time thinking about that.

Synopsis

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:38:21 +0200

OTILIA and GABITA share the same room in a student dormitory. They are colleagues at the University in this small town in Romania, during the last years of communism. Otilia rents a room in a cheap hotel. In the afternoon, they are going to meet a certain Mr. Bebe. Gabita is pregnant, abortion is illegal and none of them have passed through something like this before.

The film belongs to a larger project called: Tales from the Golden Age - a subjective history of communism in Romania through its urban legends. The project's aim is to talk about that period with no direct reference to communism but only through different stories focused on personal options in a time of misfortunes that people had to live like normal times.