5 minutes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 5 minutes |
| Country of production | Romania |
| original language | Romanian |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dan Chișu |
| script | Dan Chișu |
| production | Anamaria Antoci |
| camera | Adrian Silișteanu |
| cut | Letiția Ștefănescu |
| occupation | |
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5 Minute is a film drama by Dan Chișu , which celebrated its world premiere at the Warsaw International Film Festival in October 2019 .
background
In 2013, in an art house cinema in Bucharest, a screening of Lisa Cholodenko's film The Kids Are All Right , in which Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play a couple raising two teenagers, was interrupted by representatives of a far-right movement opposed to the embassy of the film protested . The press accused the police of failing to intervene to end the conflict. The film focuses on the point of view of Nicu Holban, the head of the team dispatched by the local gendarmerie to make sure the disruption doesn't escalate.
production
Directed by Dan Chișu , who also wrote the script. Chișu explains that his film is about analyzing the truth and examining how it can be changed by the media, as the fourth estate, and what means they have at their disposal to manipulate public opinion. The truth looks different from different points of view, said the director, in this case there is the point of view of law enforcement and the media. He lets the young journalist Liliana Calomfir look at the escalation.
The first screening of the film took place on October 17, 2019 as part of the Warsaw International Film Festival . It was scheduled to hit Romanian cinemas on March 27, 2020, but the launch has been postponed to an unknown time due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Awards
Warsaw International Film Festival 2019
- Nomination in the competition
Web links
- 5 minutes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 5 Minutes Too Late - Trailer from Rollercoaster PR on YouTube (video, Romanian with English subtitles)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Romanian right-wing extremists disrupt the screening of a film about homosexuals. In: nzz.ch, February 8, 2018.
- ↑ a b Warsaw Film Festival: 5 Minutes Too Late. In: wff.pl. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
- ^ Romanian Films 2019. In: cnc.gov.ro. Retrieved September 29, 2019 (PDF; 1.9 MB, English)
- ↑ Patricia Marinescu: Drama “5 Minute”, regizată de Dan Chişu, va avea astăzi premiera mondială la Festivalul Internaţional de Film de la Varşovia. In: news.ro, October 18, 2019. (Romanian)
- ↑ https://radioromaniacultural.ro/lansarea-in-cinematografe-a-filmului-5-minute-de-dan-chisu-amanata/
- ↑ Nominations for the competition 2019. In: wff.pl. Retrieved September 29, 2019.