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The Oak

Balanţa

France, Romania

1992

105 Min
Color
1.66:1
Romanian
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DIR Lucian Pintilie

EXEC Constantin Popescu

PROD Lucian Pintilie, Sylvain Bursztejn, Eliane Stutterheim

SCR Ion Baiesu, Lucian Pintilie

DP Doru Mitran

CAST Maia Morgenstern, Răzvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan, Ion Pavlescu, Mariana Mihuţ

ED Victorita Nae

PROD DES Calin Papura

SOUND Andrei Papp

Cannes (Out of Competition), San Sebastián (Open Zone), Telluride, New York, AFI FEST (European Cinema), Transilvania (Lucian Pintilie Retrospective)

Synopsis

A description of Romania before Ceausescu’s downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything. –IMDb

Director

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Lucian Pintilie

Born in 1933 in Southern Bessarabia (part of Ukraine since the 1940s), Lucian Pintilie studied film and theatre in Bucharest. He began his directing career in theatre before turning to film. Although his films were internationally praised—Sunday at Six won The Grand Prize of the International Youth Jury in the 1966 Cannes Festival; Reenactment was presented in the official selection of Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, 1969 Cannes; Ward Six won Un Certain Regard at the 1979 Cannes Festival—Pintilie was in a continuous fight with the Romanian communist authorities. After Reenactment was banned in 1969, and his theatre production of The Inspector was banned in 1972, Pintilie was forbidden to work in theatres and had only two more films produced, the last of which—Carnival Scenes—was also banned for 10 years, to be officially released only in 1991. Pintilie was ultimately pressured by the authorities to leave Romania in 1982. For twenty years he lived and worked in France and the United States… read more

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23Jun12

I’m pretty sure Răzvan Vasilescu knew that Magda Catone will end up playing in laundry detergent commercials and that’s why he slapped her in one of the film’s most entertaining scenes. One of the best Romanian movies ever made, no doubt about it.

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