In Competition, Cannes 1992
Award for Best Actress, Geneva 1992
Felix Award for Best actress of the year, European Film Academy Awards 1992
Directed by: Lucian PINTILIE
Year of production: 1992
Country: FRANCE, ROMANIA
Genre: drama
Length: 105 minutes
Bucharest, 1988. Nela, a young schoolteacher, takes care of her father, a former colonel with the Securitate – as he dies. His will is that his body remains to be used by medical science. No one wants his body as the refrigerators at the University aren’t working. Nela leaves for a teaching job in a provincial town. There she meets Mitică, a doctor at the local hospital, who, like Nela, won’t accept to compromise and is full of dreams and optimism. They disturb everyone by their attitude but they survive the harshness of reality, as if touched by a kind of grace.
Lucian PINTILIE – Director
Lucian PINTILIE – Script / Dialogue
Doru MITRAN – Director of Photography
Victorița NAE – Film Editor
Maia MORGENSTERN
Răzvan VASILESCU
Victor REBENGIUC
Dorel VIȘAN