Radu, 45, rich and single, manages his business with a strong, unwavering hand and no scruples. His competition is now leading a charge against him on the stock market, which prompts Radu to remember a childhood game of beer bottle caps, a game that required risk-taking, effort and skill. A heart attack and the news that he might need a heart transplant determines him to head to a remote place, where the Danube river meets the sea, a place of simple people and age-old customs.
Acting
Vlad Ivanov's crumbling patriarch—silent rage in every glare.
Cinematography
Danube Delta as liminal purgatory, stunning and suffocating.
Director
Sorin Marin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-communist Romanian cinema loves corrupt patriarchs; Ivanov's practically typecast as national sin-eater.
Shot in Sfântu Gheorghe, where the Danube actually bleeds into Black Sea—production fought brutal weather for that liminal look.
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