A father rotting in prison, a son building skyscrapers on lies—Romania's most brutal inheritance.
A peasant went to work in constructions for a few years in Bucharest. He's thinking of returning home, but only after overturning his father's unfair sentence.
Acting
Şerban Ionescu's simmering restraint, Ilarion Ciobanu's weathered silence.
Cinematography
Bucharest's gray brutalism swallowing human scale whole.
Director
Constantin Vaeni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Ceaușescu's final years, the film's prison bureaucracy mirrors Romania's real Securitate archives—Vaeni allegedly had state 'minders' on set daily.
The construction site was an actual unfinished Ceaușescu megaproject; crew filmed between real shifts of exhausted workers who thought the camera crew were inspectors.
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