The Unsaved is a drama about about a Sancho Panza and not a Don Quijote. It's about the every day's non-hero facing circumstances and not adventures, it's about Viorel, a 25-year-old ...
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Title: The Unsaved (2013)
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3 wins & 12 nominations.
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Igor Babiac | ... | Viorel |
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Sergiu Voloc | ... | Gasca |
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Ela Ionescu | ... | Maria |
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Igor Caras-Romanov | ... | Vivi |
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Angela Ciobanu | ... | Mama |
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Alexei Machevnin | ... | Alexei |
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Alexandr Chiciuc | ... | Serghei |
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Ion Coseru | ... | Bica |
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Victor Drumi | ... | Fane |
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Denis Dimitriu | ... | Adi |
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Valentin Turcan | ... | Sandu |
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Petru Oistric | ... | Buba |
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Grigore Sorici | ... | Police Trainee |
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Boris Vieru | ... | Cretu |
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Nicolae Darii | ... | Doctor |
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The Unsaved is a drama about about a Sancho Panza and not a Don Quijote. It's about the every day's non-hero facing circumstances and not adventures, it's about Viorel, a 25-year-old fledgling drug dealer, from a backwater little town in the contemporary Republic of Moldova. He lives at home with his mother, his ears get red when he's nervous and he lets his days pass in the usual "laissez-faire" Moldavian style. He gets involved through his best friend, Goose, in small-time drug dealing, while helping him to fly a hang glider that never seems to work properly; and he falls in love with Maria, the girl who happens to cut his hair. This easy-going existentialism precipitates several possibilities, which find our hero trapped in his own indecisiveness, so finally he reckons the moment has come for him to start growing up and act like an adult. The first thing he does is get a job peeling potatoes in the police canteen in order to make his mother proud. The second thing is to quit the ... Written by Anonymous
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Official submission of Moldova to the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 87th Academy Awards 2015. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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A decent effort by this first-time director who well deserved the FIPRESCI (international critics) prize that the film won at the Cottbus (Germany) festival in October 2013. This is a full-frontal presentation of the difficulties involved in growing up in one of the poorest countries in Europe, but one which avoids falling into the trap of misérabilisme. Cobileanski achieves a fine balance between hope and despair despite the film's downbeat ending, and the film's characters are depicted with a degree of sympathy that precludes caricature. The Unsaved does not seem to have had much of a commercial career to date (June 2014) but it deserves a wider audience, at least at festivals.