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The Oak
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Cast
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Nela
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Mitica
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Victor Rebengiuc | ... |
Village mayor
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Dorel Visan | ... |
Country Priest
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Mariana Mihut | ... |
Priest's wife
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Gheorghe Visu | ... |
Priest in the train
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Dan Condurache | ... |
Prosecutor
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Virgil Andriescu | ... |
Nela's father
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Matei Alexandru | ... |
Butusina
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Leopoldina Balanuta | ... |
Nela's mother
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Magda Catone | ... |
Mitica's assistant
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Ionel Mihailescu | ... |
Titi
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Dorina Lazar |
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A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything. Written by Yepok
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Language:
RomanianRelease Date:
22 January 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Oak See more »Filming Locations:
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Budget:
$3,700,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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At the time I read the book the film is based on, it was a reflection of the reality surrounding us, in Romania, therefore after the first print it was banned by the Ceausescu's communist regime. As time went by, I emigrated in the US, and seen the movie 10 years after I've read the book and although the movie supposedly is a fiction, it played like a documentary in front of my eyes. It is hard, as a Romanian, to disconnect from my personal experiences, but if anybody is interested in what the communism in Romania was like, this movie is the way to find out. The tragic and the comedy are coming together to weave the fabric of a society so sick, that life becomes surreal. For my money this is a great movie, the fresco of a society governed by rules unknown to civilization.