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Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2018)
Directed by Ivana Mladenović
Drama · 1h 59m
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
Cast
Ștefan Iancu
Cezar Grumăzescu
Sorin Cociș
Crew
- Director
- Ivana Mladenović
- Writer
- Ivana Mladenović, Adrian Schiop
- Director of Photography
- Luchian Ciobanu
- Editor
- Catalin Cristutiu
Details
- Original title
- Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari
- Release date
- 2018-02-02
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RO
- Spoken languages
- Romanian
- Countries
- Romania, Serbia, Belgium
- Production
- Hi Film Productions, Film House Baš Čelik, Frakas Productions