Your secret police file says you have a secret son. Happy birthday, Tavi.
Bucharest, 2009. Twenty years after Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy for his late 30's finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he could be the father of a son he didn't know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi is caught by a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the life's of the ones close to him. For the first time in his life, Tavi is forced to take really mature decisions.
Acting
Șerban Pavlu's beautiful disaster energy as Tavi.
Direction
Hotea balances absurdity with genuine melancholy.
Director
Valentin Hotea
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Romania's Securitate files were partially opened in 2009, creating real-life Tavis who discovered family betrayals decades later.
The title references Cyrano de Bergerac's unrequited love—a nod to Tavi's romantic failures across two decades.
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