KONTINENTAL '25

By Radu JUDE

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Drama - Completed 2025

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she must evict a homeless man who lives in the basement of a building. An unexpected event creates a moral crisis she tries to solve as best she can.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2025
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Drama, Comedy
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN, HUNGARIAN, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 109 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Radu JUDE
    • Synopsis
    • The film begins with a homeless man who commits suicide when he is evicted from the place he was staying in, then the story follows Orsolya (the 45 yo bailiff who evicted him) in her attempts to calm down her consciousness - and the film, a mix of drama and comedy, deals with issues like the housing crisis, the new post-socialist economy, the nationalism from Transylvania (the story is set in Cluj), the power of the language to maintain the social status quo etc. If the structure is similar to Psycho, the title is an echo to Europe '51 by Roberto Rossellini. Rossellini imagined a film where the moral crisis of a woman found some ways to become meaningful. In Kontinental '25, the woman having a moral crisis (true, smaller than Rossellini's hero) doesn't find anybody and anything to understand her.
      The film is a low-budget independent one and its poverty of means is very important - another lesson from Rossellini.