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Romeo Aldea, a 49-year-old physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding – Eliza has received a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a mere formality for such a good student. On the day prior to her first written exam, an incident jeopardizes Eliza’s departure. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the problem, but none of them are in accordance with the principles that he, as a father, taught his daughter.
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Cast:
Adrian Titieni, Maria Drăguș, Lia Bugnar, Mălina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Rareș Andrici -
Original Title:
Bacalaureat -
Country:
Romania, France, Belgium -
Year:
2016 - 128’
Director
Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian writer-director born in Iași, Romania in 1968. Before studying film, he worked as a teacher and journalist for the press, radio and TV. His debut film, Occident / West, was premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes in 2002 and was an audience hit in Romania. In 2007, his second feature, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, was awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes. The film later received several awards as best film of the year from various international associations of film critics. It also won the European Film Academy awards for best film and best director. He returned to Cannes in 2009, as a writer, producer, and co-director, with the collective episodic film Tales from the Golden Age, and as a writer and director, in 2012, with Beyond the Hills – double awarded for Best Screenplay and Best Actresses. He was in the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
