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EASTERN BUSINESS

AFACEREA EST

By Igor COBILEANSKI

Black comedy - Completed 2016

A Charming Tragedy

PÖFF 2016

2 Bronze Wolf Statuette for the Best Script and for the Best Actor

Eurasia IFF 2017

Features

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Black comedy
- Countries
- ROMANIA, LITHUANIA, MOLDOVA
- Languages
- ROMANIAN, RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Igor COBILEANSKI
- Writer(s)
- Igor COBILEANSKI
- Cast
- Ion SAPDARU, Constantin PUSCASU, Daniel BUSUIOC
- Producer(s)
- Iuliana TARNOVETCHI (ALIEN FILM)
- Synopsis
- Eastern Business is a dark comedy full of humor and absurd situations. The film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two Moldavian men, Marian (Constantin Puscasu), a 45-year-old intellectual choir singer, and Petro (Iona Sapdaru), a 40-year-old sneak thief loser. Confronted with poverty and lack of perspective, the two men start an exhausting journey, trying to make money to reach their dreams. Marian wishes to finally marry his fiancée, Veronica, and Petro dreams about buying a crane and earning money from its rental. Getting acquainted in jail after a stupid fight, Marian and Petro decide to become business partners and start working towards a plan. They manage to close a deal with three Caucasian gangsters and buy a wagon full of horseshoes, but they are soon robbed and everything seems to be turning to dust. Even if they are constantly followed by bad luck, the two men don’t lose their optimism and always try different things to earn their money. Eastern Business is a charming tragic, yet comic, film about how absurd and sarcastic sometimes life proves to be.