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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)

A fost sau n-a fost? (original title)
Unrated | | Comedy, Drama | 29 September 2006 (Romania)
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A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mircea Andreescu ... Emanoil Piscoci
... Virgil Jderescu
Ion Sapdaru ... Tiberiu Manescu
Mirela Cioaba ... Doamna Manescu
... Doamna Jderescu
Cristina Ciofu ... Vali
Lucian Iftime ... Lica
Annemarie Chertic ... Vera
Petrica Sapdaru ... Petrica
Catalin Paraschiv ... Barman
George Guoqingyun ... Chen
Constantin Dita ... Tibi
Daniel Badale ... Professor
Marius Rogojinski ... Vecin (as Marius Rogojinschi)
Aurelia Tocu ... Maricica Dima (voice)
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It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?" Written by Alex

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€200,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,586, 10 June 2007, Limited Release

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$88,066, 26 August 2007
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When a woman and her daughter visit old man Piscoci and ask him to be Santa Claus, the boom mic bobs in and out of the frame at the top of the screen multiple times throughout the shot. See more »

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a show of European cinema in Colombia
5 April 2008 | by – See all my reviews

There is really a lot to this movie. Even thought there is almost no evident action, except for the long television broadcast of an obnoxious talk show - even some apparently loose ends or inconclusive stories - the fact is you can ponder on days on this beautiful work of art. Acting is superb in most cases, and images of dusk and dawn in the freezing Romanian winter - so gray, so hard - are pure poetry.

The reference to dogma, among other keen jokes, talks about a clever story writer, and a cultured film maker.

I'm really glad I got to see this movie as a part of the "Eurocine" European movie showcase that visits us these days (april 08) in Bogota and the rest of Colombia. We get a chance to see the best of Romania, a country apparently so far away, yet so close to our hearts.
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