Film montage, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Romanian comedy, using fragments from Romanian films from 1927-1977. The connecting sequences - the conversations of cinephile travelers on their way to the film studios in Buftea - account for about 40% of the total length of the film. We are grateful to the filmmakers for the reunions with great actors who have passed away or great living actors. We are very grateful to them for their kind and benevolent effort to entertain us in every way and in every way; the comedy way, the musical way, the music-hall way, all ways, because, if you look closely, an excellent comic moment comes from a detective movie.
Acting
Living legends Dem Rădulescu, Jean Constantin, Sebastian Papaiani trading banter.
Direction
Boroş stitched 50 years of clips into coherent train-ride reverie.
Production
Time-capsule of Romanian cinema rarely seen outside archives.
Director
Haralambie Boroş
Dem Rădulescu
Regizorul/ Conductorul CFR
Jean Constantin
Jean
Sebastian Papaiani
Sebastian
Puiu Călinescu
Coca Andronescu
Knitting Woman
Paul Lavric
Old Man
Marin Moraru
(archive footage)
Draga Olteanu Matei
(archive footage)
Nicky Atanasiu
(archive footage)
Radu Beligan
(archive footage)
Ion Finteşteanu
(archive footage)
Alexandru Giugaru
(archive footage)
Elvira Godeanu
(archive footage)
Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic
(archive footage)
Puiu Călinescu
Puiu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Buftea was Romania's Hollywood — this film is essentially a studio tour disguised as narrative.
Many actors here had worked together since the 1950s; their easy chemistry is decades of inside jokes.
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