Silent wedding - to hell with Stalin!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Silent wedding - to hell with Stalin! |
| Original title | Nunta muta |
| Country of production | France , Luxembourg , Romania |
| original language | Romanian |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Horațiu Mălăele |
| script | Horațiu Mălăele Adrian Lustig |
| production | Vlad Păunescu for Castel Film |
| music | Alexandru Andrieş |
| camera | Vivi Dragan Vasile |
| cut | Cristian Nicolescu |
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Silent wedding - to hell with Stalin! is a French / Luxembourg / Romanian comedy film from 2008. The film, based on a true story, caricatures the living conditions under communist rule in Romania at the beginning of the 1950s. The film is the cinema debut of director Horațiu Mălăele.
content
On March 5, 1953, dictator Joseph Stalin died of a stroke in Moscow . At that time Romania was under communist rule, for this reason no celebrations were allowed to take place in the week after Stalin's death.
In a remote village, Mara and Iancu are on cloud nine. The whole village knows about their “dishonorable” togetherness. After an argument between the fathers, Iancu agrees to marry Mara.
A short time later, the preparations for the wedding are already in full swing. The tables are set, the food is cooked and the wedding couple is looking forward to the most beautiful day of their lives. But in the midst of the funny wedding preparations, the mayor bursts in with bad news: Stalin is dead. No festivities are forbidden for the next week. Exceptions are not possible under any circumstances.
Therefore the festival has to be postponed. But the residents of the small Romanian village are not ready for this. Without further ado they move the party to a barn and wait until the sun has set. When it is finally dark, the wedding celebration can begin. In order not to be discovered at the forbidden gathering, the guests try to celebrate in complete silence. Later that night a Russian tank broke through the wall of the ballroom with a loud roar and the residents were punished.
criticism
"Burlesque comedy that wants to show the inhumanity of dictatorial systems, but fails because of the crude caricaturing drawing of the microcosm, which does not allow any empathy with the characters."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silent Wedding - To hell with Stalin! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .