Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2018)

  • NR
  • 04/12/2018 (AR)
  • Drama
  • 1h 59m

Overview

Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.

Adrian Schiop

Writer

Ivana Mladenović

Writer, Director

Cast

Dan Bursuc's headshot

Dan Bursuc

Manager
Sorin Cociș's headshot

Sorin Cociș

Policeman
Kanako Hashimoto's headshot

Kanako Hashimoto

Brigitte
Ștefan Iancu's headshot

Ștefan Iancu

Andrei
Nicolae Marin's headshot

Nicolae Marin

Borcan
Vasile Pavel's headshot

Vasile Pavel

Alberto
Adrian Schiop's headshot

Adrian Schiop

Adi
Cezar Grumăzescu's headshot

Cezar Grumăzescu

Vasi

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