Completed - ROMANIAN - Black comedy - 145 minutes
Romania, the 60s. Serafim, a young doctor, gets his first job in Palilula, a little lost town. He encounters there a world full of weird characters, isolated in drunkenness, feasting, and orgy. Will he survive to all Palilula’s temptations?
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Silviu PURCARETE Writer(s) : Silviu PURCARETE Cast : Dimeny ARON, Razvan VASILESCU, Ofelia POPII, Constantin CHIRIAC Producer(s) : Tudor GIURGIU (Libra Film), Oana GIURGIU (Libra Film)
The film is placed in the 60s in Romania and tells the story of Serafim, a fresh graduate of medical school, brought by a gloomy whim of destiny to the town of Palilula. Nowhere, that is. Palilula is a ghost town, lost in the middle of the Vallahian plain. A quarantine area, a sanatorium, improbable hospital, a gynecological clinic in a settlement where no child is born. A community of Italians who forgot their language, but not the nostalgia of their canzonets. Italians with Danubian taste and disorientation. The young doctor Serafim will not get to practice his profession as a pediatrician, in this childless town. He will be drowning in the sweet and poisoned honey of the place, like a fly caught by a frog.
Country(ies) : ROMANIA
Karlovy Vary IFF 2012 East of the West - CompetitionInt'l Antalya Golden Orange 2012 Int'l Feature FilmValladolid IFF 2012 Official Section