Carnival Scenes
De ce trag clopotele, Mitica?
1981, Film, 119 min, Comedy, Drama, Romanian, Romania, MoviePedia score 66
Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.
Directed by Lucian Pintilie
Cast
- Victor Rebengiuc as Pampon
- Mariana Mihut as Mita Baston
- Petrica Gheorghiu
- Tora Vasilescu as Didina Mazu
- Gheorghe Dinica as Nae
- Mircea Diaconu as Iordache
- Florin Zamfirescu
- Stefan Banica
- Constantin Baltaretu
- Stefan Iordache as Mitica
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