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Bless You, Prison

Original title: Binecuvântatã fii, închisoare
  • 20022002
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  • 1h 30m
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7.5/10
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Bless You, Prison (2002)
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Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole, ... Read allBased on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole, is arrested in the years of Stalinism simply for being an active member of an opposition p... Read allBased on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole, is arrested in the years of Stalinism simply for being an active member of an opposition party. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell... Read all
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    • Nicolae Margineanu
  • Writers
    • Nicole Valéry-Grossu(novel "Benie sois-tu, prison")
    • Nicolae Margineanu(screenplay)
    • Catalin Cocris(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Maria Ploae
    • Dorina Lazar
    • Ecaterina Nazare
    • Nicolae Margineanu
  • Writers
    • Nicole Valéry-Grossu(novel "Benie sois-tu, prison")
    • Nicolae Margineanu(screenplay)
    • Catalin Cocris(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Maria Ploae
    • Dorina Lazar
    • Ecaterina Nazare
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    Maria Ploae
    Maria Ploae
    • Nicoleta
    Dorina Lazar
    • Prison Director
    Ecaterina Nazare
    • Prisoner
    • (as Ecaterina Nazarie)
    Maria Rotaru
    • Prisoner
    Victoria Cocias
    Victoria Cocias
    Iulia Lazar
    Romanita Ionescu
    Mioara Ifrim
    Eugenia Maci
    Eugenia Bosânceanu
    Margareta Pogonat
    • (Guest Appearence)
    Tamara Cretulescu
    Monica Ghiuta
    Ion Pavlescu
    • Guest Appearence
    Cristina Tacoi
    • (Guest Appearence)
    Rodica Ionescu
    Coca Zibilianu
      Simona Popescu
        • Nicolae Margineanu
      • Writers
        • Nicole Valéry-Grossu(novel "Benie sois-tu, prison")
        • Nicolae Margineanu(screenplay)
        • Catalin Cocris(screenplay)
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      10/10
      Portrays the reality of those times in Romania
      It's a movie about communism, a movie about struggle, a movie about faith in God. Arrested for being a member of a democratic party, Nicoleta Valeria Bruteanu enters the Communist Romanian prisons in 1949, and remains detained until 1953. There she finds the time she needs to think about her mistakes in life and tries to regain her faith in God. Soon faith united all cell mates and helped them endure and in the end survive the horrors of the Communist prison system. The title of the movie is at the same time the conclusion of the story - the suffering in the prison brought Nicoleta closer to God, closer to people around her, made her a better person.

      The movie its a little graphic, but the director was somewhat forced to include such scenes to be able to reveal the brutality of the tortures methods. The English dubbing works well and most actors did an excellent job. I highly recommend this movie to understand better the suffering which the people in Eastern Europe and Russia were forced to endure.
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      • leontemihai
      • Feb 2, 2007

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        • November 8, 2002 (Romania)
        • Romania
        • Romanian
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        • Bucharest, Romania
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        • Agerfilm S.r.l.
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      • 1 hour 30 minutes
        • Color
        • Dolby Digital

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