Fresh
Ambitiously trying to blend the joys of growing up with the melancholy of living in a country under one of the worst dictatorships in Eastern Europe, this warm story does have a tendency to ramble.
Deborah Young, Variety
The Way I Spent the End of the World
2006 · 1h 46m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Catalin Mitulescu
Overview
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
Director and cast
- Catalin Mitulescu Director
- Timotei Duma as Lalalilu 'Lali' Matei
- Dorotheea Petre as Eva Matei
- Constantin Constantinov as Grigore Matei
- Carmen Ungureanu as Maria Matei
- Ionuţ Becheru as Alexandru Vomică
- Cristian Văraru as Andrei
- Jean Constantin as Uncle Florică
- Monalisa Basarab as Professorà cor
- Florin Zamfirescu as The principal of the training school
- Anca Ahrfrescu as Soçia lui Nucu
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