She was a child he once knew. Twenty years later, she's a woman he cannot have.
The story of an impossible love: doctor Emil Codrescu is reunited 20 years later with Adela, the one he had only known as a young girl. The two fall in love, but circumstances and hesitation prevent them from getting closer.
Acting
Motoi's haunted eyes do what pages of dialogue cannot.
Cinematography
Bleak Romanian landscapes mirror the lovers' frozen possibilities.
Writing
Garabet Ibrăileanu adaptation preserves novel's painful restraint.
Director
Mircea Veroiu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Garabet Ibrăileanu's 1911 novel, considered a masterwork of Romanian literary modernism and psychological realism.
Director Mircea Veroiu was a leading figure of the Romanian New Wave's first generation, though this film's commercial failure pushed him toward television.
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