Story
Anthropologist Adi has been dumped by his girlfriend. To distract himself, he surrounds himself with work. He moves to Ferentari, the poorest part of Bucharest, to conduct a study of Manele, the pop music of the Roma community. During his work he gets to know the ex-con Alberto, who is happy to help him. What starts as a working relationship develops into a friendship and then a hesitant romance, but the more they hide from their environment, the more they have to deal with their ethnic and cultural differences. Soldiers. Story from Ferentari is a tender variation on Romeo and Juliet on the periphery of Romanian society.
Director
IVANA MLADENOVIĆ (*1984) is a Serbian film-maker who lives and works in Bucharest. Her documentary Turn off the Lights (2012) won several awards, including as best Romanian documentary. Soldiers. Story from Ferentari is her debut feature.Trailer
Info
Soldatii. Poveste din Ferentari
Fiction Feature
Romanian
Kaleidoskop//FF2017
Romania, Serbia, Belgium
2017
119 min
OV with German subtitles
Ivana Mladenovic
Adrian Șchiop, Ivana Mladenovic
Adrian Șchiop, Vasile Pavel-Digudai, Stefan Iancu, Nicolae Marin-Spaniolul, Kana Hashimoto, Dan Bursuc
Ada Solomon
Luchian Ciobanu
Catalin Cristutiu
Beta Cinema GmbH
Hi Film Production; Film House Bas Celik; Frakas Productions
Cosima Finkbeiner, Beta Cinema GmbH: Cosima.Finkbeiner@betacinema.com