A depiction of Romania before Ceausescu’s downfall. Nela is the daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the Romanian political police. Unlike her sister, she refused to become an agent of the Securitate and lives with her father. After he dies, she leaves Bucharest and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon who laughs at everything, just like her.
Balanta
1992
16 years
105 min.
Fiction
France, Romania
Colorido
Lucian Pintilie
Lucian Pintilie
Doru Mitran
Victorita Nae
Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc
Sylvain Bursztejn, Lucian Pintilie, Eliane Stutterheim
MK2 Productions, Parnasse Production, Les Films du Scarabée
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