A 58-minute Romanian film that'll make you believe in love again—then break your heart before midnight.
A young girl harbors a secret crush (sincere and pure feelings) on a famous writer. She read his every book, so when she hears of the opportunity of delivering a gift to his house she does everything in her power to become the tansporter (and succeeds). Manea is a handsome man, not only a successful writer , women of the elite of Bucharest's society swarm around him all the time.He has just broken up with one of them... It's New Year's Eve,he invites her to spend some time with him...a dream built on snowflakes and champagne. In her naivety and pureness , Dorulet-as Manea caresses her,touches the unseen strings of his heart and soul , which he taught to be long dead,she awoke adolescence (like) emotions in the sleeping lion. I loved this movie and I would like to see it at least one more time.
Acting
Maria Filotti's eyes contain multitudes.
Cinematography
Snow-lit interiors that breathe.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it cuts through 78 years.
Director
Jean Georgescu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures 1940s Bucharest's elite literary circles, where famous writers were treated like demigods and young women were expected to adore from shadows.
Jean Georgescu made this during a brief creative window before communist censorship crushed Romanian cinema's romantic soul—it's a farewell to feeling.
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