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Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu, Tora Vasilescu, Gheorghe Dinica ...( see more  see more... ) , Mircea Diaconu

Inspired by the work of the Romanian play-writer I.L. Caragiale, a bitter-funny witness of the 20th turn-of-the-century Romanian burgeois mores, the movie manages to grasp the cheap, frantic, colourfu...( read more  read more... )l and slightly hysteric atmosphere of Caragiale's plays. The movie's director, Lucian Pintilie, is one of the few success stories of the Romanian cinema. He turns the classical, linear plot of the play into a zigzagged scenario, combining it with several other Caragiale's short-stories. The result is a weird combination of crazy carnival scenes and short, alienated insertions reminding of Antognioni's "Red Dessert". A burlesque, fast-paced, snowball-like comedy (because, after all, *it remains* a comedy) with plenty of post-modernist auto-reflexivity and deep meditative undertones.

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Directed by: Lucian Pintilie

Release Date: January 1, 1981

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