The Way I Spent the End of the World
(2006)
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The Way I Spent the End of the World
(2006)
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Dorotheea Petre | ... |
Eva Matei - a seventeen-year-old girl
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Timotei Duma | ... |
Lalalilu 'Lali' Matei - Eva's little brother
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Anca Ahrfrescu | ... |
Soçia lui Nucu
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Ioan Albu |
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Sergiu Anghel | ... |
The headmaster
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Monalisa Basarab | ... |
Professorà cor
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Ionut Becheru | ... |
Alexandru 'Alex' 'Vomicã' - a high school student in love with Eva
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Adrian Bulboaca | ... |
The second guitarist
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Ion Carangea |
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Jean Constantin | ... |
Uncle Floricã
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Flaviu Crisan | ... |
Securitat policeman
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Radu Câmpean | ... |
The soloist
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Mircea Diaconu | ... |
Grigore Matei - Eva and Lali's father
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Sorin Dinculescu | ... |
Profesonul panait
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Bogdan Dumitrache | ... |
The doctor
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Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator. Written by Erin
Not too strong on plot, "How I spent the end of the world" is strong on mood and feeling, and it very well compensates. I usually don't go crazy about "mood pieces" but this is definitely more. I caught the film at the up and coming Transylvania Film Festival (Tiff for short) where the film had its national premiere after a decent reception at Cannes only a few weeks earlier. The film is a MUST for any Romanian who has lived through the Ceausescu years as the filmmakers went through great pains to accurately depict the mood of those days from general landscape to the toy trucks, school uniforms and furniture all Romanians possessed and shared during an era of uniform mass-production. The film stands out as the harbinger of something historians will hopefully refer to as "the Romanian New Wave." With films like this, and "Marilena from P7" as well as Porumboiu's "Has it Been, Has it not Been" (another personal take on the shattering Revolution of 1989), Romanian cinema is finally entering the world circuit, and will hopefully stay there for a while.