AFERIM!

By Radu JUDE

AURORA FILMS (POLAND) - as DISTR Theatrical

Drama - Completed 2015

AFERIM! is an Eastern Western and an exotic coming of age film, with a deep touch of black humour.

From the producer of 2013 Berlinale Winner CHILD‘S POSE!

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2015
Competition Silver Bear for Best Director, International Jury
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA, BULGARIA, CZECH REPUBLIC
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Radu JUDE
    • Writer(s)
    • Radu JUDE, Florin LĂZĂRESCU
    • Producer(s)
    • Ada SOLOMON (Hi Film Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • In 19th century Romania, Costandin (50), a policeman of the time, and his son Ionita (15) travel through the south of the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave. Costandin is a charismatic mixture between a funny Stalin and a somewhat more pragmatic Don Quixote. While Ionita seems to be quite the opposite: more like Dostoyevsky’s ”Idiot”, finding himself in the unfortunate situation of having to settle his inner turmoil while riding, holding a sword or a gun. Their road speedily winds through exotic landscapes and meeting hundreds of secondary characters, rendering a surprise in every scene. All of this is pictured with infectious humor and stirring cynicism, while keeping the authenticity of the age, in an ingenious Western in a wild-wild East never yet captured on film.