Director: Catalin Mitulescu
Writers: Catalin Mitulescu and Andreea Valean
Stars: Doroteea Petre (Best actress prize in Cannes 2006), Timotei Duma and Anca Ahrfrescu
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator
This film is a mirror to the way of life of the Romanian people under the rule of Ceausescu The joyful story of a young pratogonist Emma who has the tendency to ramble to the dictatorship of Ceausescu..The Romanian family’s struggle to live in tranquilly under the dictatorship of Ceausescu is applaudable.
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