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12:08 East of Bucharest

A fost sau n-a fost?

Romania

2006

89 Min
Color
1.85:1
Romanian
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DIR Corneliu Porumboiu

PROD Corneliu Porumboiu

SCR Corneliu Porumboiu

DP Marius Panduru

CAST Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba

ED Roxana Szel

PROD DES Daniel Raduta

MUSIC Rotaria

SOUND Alex Dragomir

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs): Caméra d'Or, Transilvania: Audience Award, Best Romanian Film, Karlovy Vary (East of the West), Telluride, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), São Paulo, London (Film on the Square), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), AFI FEST (World Cinema), Melbourne (Romanian Wave)

Synopsis

16 years after the Revolution and just days before Christmas, a local television station in Bucharest has invited several guests to share their moments of glory, as they allegedly stormed city hall, chanting “down with Ceasescu!” before Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and his wife fled the presidential palace by helicopter so many years ago. An alcoholic history teacher and a lonely retiree, who moonlights as Santa, are forced to answer questions from dubious viewers who aren’t overly convinced that the Revolution ever took place in their city.

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Corneliu Porumboiu

Corneliu Porumboiu (born September 14, 1975) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Camera d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of well-known football referee Adrian Porumboiu. —Wikipedia 

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Christopher Smith

23Jun12

It gets off to a slow start, at first I was worried the humor might be too subtle and culturally-specific for my tastes (especially since Porumboiu's next film 'Police, Adjective' bored me to tears); but it eventually won me over in a big way, thanks in large part to the fine comic nuances of stars Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, and Ion Sapdaru. A charmingly offbeat, intimately funny little film.

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Ana Duarte

1Oct11

At first, I was like "meh". But then... I fell in love.

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megancatherine

12Aug11

An excellent representation. Hilarious and fitting.

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Sonja

3Aug10

mircea andreescu totally stole this whole movie!

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The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Police, Adjective

By David Hudson on September 29, 2009

"Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d'or winner Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), a filmmaker attentive

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Une farce absurde jouissivement ironique

By hubertg​uillaud on September 8, 2010

Amis du cinéma roumain bienvenue. Avec un film vraiment grinçant sur la bêtise crasse de l’âme roumaine et le désenchantement post-communiste, Porumboiu signe une farce absurde et décalée, jouissivement…  read review

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