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15 March 2002 (Romania) morePlot:
Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money. | add synopsisAwards:
4 wins moreUser Comments:
Best Romanian film ever made more (26 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Mircea Diaconu | ... | Ovidiu Gorea | |
| Gheorghe Dinica | ... | Pavel Puiut | |
| Mara Nicolescu | ... | Miruna | |
| Viorica Voda | ... | Diana Dobrovicescu | |
| Marius Florea Vizante | ... | Simpaticul | |
| Florin Zamfirescu | ... | Poetul Garii de Nord | |
| Cristian Gheorghe | ... | Robert Dobrovicescu | |
| Florin Calinescu | ... | Himself | |
| Constantin Draganescu | ... | Tatal | |
| Monica Ghiuta | ... | Mama | |
| Ovidiu Niculescu | ... | Ospatarul | |
| Valentin Popescu | ... | Recuperator #1 | |
| Nae Caranfil | ... | Karaoke singer | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Gabriela Bobes | |||
| Marius Rizea | |||
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I had the exquisite privilege to see the film's premiere and since then I've been to see it five more times. It is the best Romanian film ever made. From the script writing (plot) to acting, costumes, camera movements, editing, everything has so high a quality it acquires international value. The disadvantage of it being so Romanian may diminish a lot of its humor for foreign viewers, but there is something universal about humor that makes the bittersweet truth reach the humanity of each member of the audience rather than their nationality. It is a sour sweet satire of the contemporary Romanian society and underworld of which fiction one begins to doubt as credits start rolling.
This is for those who don't know how the director looks like: Nae Caranfil has a cameo as a Karaoke singer. Does the foreign audience applaud when there is a good scene or when the director appears in a cameo, like they did here?
What else? The Romanian film critics had designated "Filantropica" as representative for our country in Best Foreign Picture pre-nominations for the Academy Awards. Unfortunately, they didn't know much about publicity and didn't even come up with all the necessary data for the sites & all, but this does not diminish the film's value and the excuse may be that the event was a first time ever.