Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii (2006)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Catalin Mitulescu

Writers:

Catalin Mitulescu (writer)
Andreea Valean (writer)

Release Date:

30 August 2006 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In the communist era, in Romania, people live with hope of a new life, in freedom.

Plot Keywords:

Romania | Male Rear Nudity | Singing | Friendship | Guitar

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Doroteea Petre	...	Eva Matei
Timotei Duma	...	Lalalilu Matei
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anca Ahrfrescu
Sergiu Anghel
Monalisa Basarab
Ionut Becheru	...	Alexandru 'Vomicã'
Adrian Bulboaca
Radu Câmpean
Jean Constantin	...	Uncle Floricã
Flaviu Crisan
Mircea Diaconu	...	Grigore Matei
Sorin Dinculescu
Bogdan Dumitrache	...	Doctor
Gheorghe Farcas
Grigore Gonta	...	Ceausicã - Alexandru's father
Grigore Moldovan
Oxana Moravec
Adrian Nicolae
Stellan Nicolae
Vasile Nicolae
Cristian Nicolaie	...	Nucu
Valentin Popescu	...	Music teacher
Nicolae Praida	...	Titi
Adrian Rosu
Arcadio Rusu	...	Trogar
Marius Stan	...	Tarzan
Marian Stoica	...	Silvicã
Corneliu Tigancu	...	Bulba
Carmen Ungureanu	...	Maria Matei
Vera Ungureanu	...	Mama Tarzan
Cristian Vararu	...	Andrei
Marin Vasile
Florin Zamfirescu	...	Highschool principal

Also Known As:

Comment j'ai fêté la fin du monde (France)
How I Celebrated the End of the World (International: English title)
The Way I Spent the End of the World (International: English title)

Runtime:

Canada:106 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Romania | France

Language:

Romanian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:AL | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Les Films Pelléas

Goofs:

Anachronisms: There is a longer scene in the movie showing a bus trying to turn around on muddy soil. The bus is a Rocar bus, which has been produced only after 1990, and it has stickers on its doors, which surely have not been used before 1989.

About same Romania

A trip in memory. A story about an age and about an era. Only character of this movie is Ceausescu. And his presence in ours souls. At a first view is a combination Chagall-Blecher. A page of a old book. A yellow image. But the Romania of 1989 is the Romania of 2006, too. Same words, same dreams, same facts are the pieces of our life. To escape, to have, to be are the problems of everyday. So... . The extraordinary talent of Catalin Mitulescu is the result of a long clear deep observation of the pictures of present Romania. In this film is not the testimony of a communism's drop, a tale about love, absurd, lies and honor. It is a chronicle, a gorgeous chronicle about Revolution, Piata Universitatii, Iliescu regime, about Miron Cosma and the empty hope, about condition of Romanians, ever strange, ever cold. Lalalilu is our conscience. Ours jokes, patience, wait are the fruits of his desire to understand. "Our country is our country". It is possible a better definition of our condition?