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Scarred Hearts

OT: Inimi Cicatrizate

Radu Jude // Romania, Germany, 2016
Fiction Feature // FF2016

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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.

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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

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