During the communist dictatorship in Romania, thousands of people risked their lives in the attempt to run away from the country. Despair made them invent the most incredible methods to cross the border illegally. Some of them managed to escape, but many lost their lives in these attempts. Oxygen is a free re-enactment of such a real case: a man who tried to cross the Danube using an oxygen cylinder. —Transilvania International Film Festival
Adina Pintilie was born 1980 in Bucharest (Romania). She is student of the Film Faculty of National University of Drama and Film I.L.Caragiale Bucharest – Directing Department. She was selected to participate on various worshop and talent campuses. In 2006 on Berlinale Talent Campus, during Berlin International Film Festival and on Aristoteles Workshop, Romania, which is a documentary filmmaking workshop for Eastern Europe organized together with ARTE and TVR. In 2007 it was Script&Pitch Workshop – one year script development workshop Italy/Sweden/France and also Sarajevo Talent Campus, during Sarajevo International Film Festival. Her movie Don´t Get Me Wrong was produced by Aristoteles Workshop. —docalliancefilms.com
