Story
Romania, 1937. Emanuel, in his early 20s, suffers from bone tuberculosis and lives in a sanatorium by the Black Sea. He spends his time in a plaster bed and is pushed around by the staff. Surrounded by medical equipment bordering on the grotesque and trapped in a body that is slowly falling apart, Emanuel, like most of his fellow patients, is filled with a lust for life. Bodily out of commission but cerebrally all the more lively, they conduct alert, intellectual and political discussions. And as the Second World War looms, Emanuel falls in love. With surreal aspects and a lot of black humour, the film plays with motifs from the eponymous autobiographical novel by Romanian author Max Blecher, who after ten years of suffering died aged 29.
Director
With Scarred Hearts, RADU JUDE (*1977) won the Hamburg Producers' Prize for European Cinema Co-Productions at FILMFEST HAMBURG in 2016. His current sixth film won the main prize at Karlovy Vary.Trailer
Info
Inimi Cicatrizate
Fiction Feature
Romanian
Freihafen//FF2016
Romania, Germany
2016
141 min
OV with English subtitles
Radu Jude
Radu Jude
Lucian Teodor Rus, Ivana Mladenovic, Ilinca Hărnuț, Șerban Pavlu, Marian Olteanu
Ada Solomon, Jonas Dornbach
Marius Panduru Rsc
Catalin Cristutiu
Cristian Niculescu
Beta Film
Hi Film Productions; Komplizen Film
Cosmia Finkbeiner, Beta Film: cosima.finkbeiner@betacinema.com