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2004 | Color | 39 min

Liviu wakes up from a nightmare that he cannot remember. All he knows is that it has changed his view of the world, and that perhaps this change coincided with the birth of his child.


Country: Rumania
Direction: Porumboiu; Corneliu
Script: Porumboiu; Corneliu
Production: Orasanu; Mihai
Photography: Panduru; Marius
Music: Zitü; Para
Cast:Cocora; Luisa, Vancica; Adrian, Bucur; Dragos, Dita; Constantin
Participation year at FICM: 2009

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12:08 East of Bucharest

December 22. Sixteen years have gone by since the Revolution. The aging Piscoci is retired and getting ready to spend another Christmas by himself. Manescu, a history teacher, tries to avoid using his entire salary to pay his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local TV station, doesn't seem to be interested in the holy days. Together with Piscoci and Manescu, he wants to find an answer to a 16-year-old question: "Was there a revolution in their town or not?"

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