A meticulous ambulance driver working in poverty-stricken Bucharest, who takes part in an armed robbery together with three men he barely knows. As the robbery ends in disaster, Bogdan starts a thorough, almost compulsive investigation to dig up the true identities of his accomplices, but the more he discovers, the deeper he sinks into a spiral of fear and paranoia.
Direction
Mirică turns Bucharest into a suffocating character.
Acting
Bãnescu's obsessive stillness is genuinely unsettling.
Cinematography
Grime-soaked frames that reek of desperation.
Director
Bogdan Mirică
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mirică continues Romania's 'New Wave' tradition of exposing post-communist institutional decay through genre frameworks.
Toma Cuzin plays multiple names because Miricã cast him before writing the script—his presence became the film's central mystery.
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