Country: Romania
Year: 2010
Duration: 126'
portrait of the fighter as a young man At the end of WWII, a communist dictatorship comes to power in Romania. A few groups of armed partisan fighters take refuge up in the mountains and try to contrast the Soviet regime any way they can. For over ten years, the members of one of these bands, led by Ion Gavril? Ogoranu, hide in the impenetrable forests of the southern Carpathian mountains. They organize their resistance efforts and avoid the persecution of the Securitate, the regime’s secret police. “I decided to direct three films about the fight against communism in my country, after I had begun reading materials and archive documents regarding the time frame between 1945 and 1965. The stories of those years are controversial. Many accused the partisans of having selfish motives to hide from the authorities, others accused them of being nationalists, right-wing extremists. The fact is that nowadays in my country nobody seems to want to know about the past or to really come to terms with what really happened and why. These are the reasons why I decided to tell the stories of those years.”
Biography
film director
Costantin Popescu
Constantin Popescu (Romania, 1973) graduated in foreign languages and received a master’s degree in British Cultural Studies from the University of Bucharest. Since the 1990s, he has worked as an assistant producer, primarily for Lucian Pintillie. At the same time, he continued his activities as a writer and director, making a number of shorts, including A Lineman’s Cabin (2005), which received an award at Venezia Circuito Off, Salonica and Barcelona; Water (2007), a special jury award at Montpellier; and The Yellow Smiley Face (2008), which competed at Locarno. He participated in the collective film Tales from the Golden Age (2009), selected for Un certain regard at Cannes. In 2010 he presented his feature-length Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010) at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Apartamentul (The Apartment, cm, 2004), Canton (A Lineman’s Cabin, cm, 2005), Drezina (The Train, tv, 2006), Apa (Water, cm, 2007), Fata galbena care râde (The Yellow Smiley Face, cm, 2008), Amintiri din epoca de aur (coregia/codirectors Hanno Höfer, Cristian Mungiu, Razvan Marculescu, Ioana Uricaru, Racconti dell’età dell’oro, 2009), Portretul luptorului la tinere (Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man, 2010), Principii de viata (Life Principles, 2010), Las fierbini (serie tv/tv series, 2012), In Treatement (serie tv/tv series, 2012), Shall We Kiss (serie tv/tv series, 2013), Mecanica nostalgică a întîmplărilor (The Nostalgic Mechanics of Randomness, 2014)
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer
Constantin Popescu
fotografia/cinematography
Liviu Marghidan
montaggio/film editing
Corina Stavil?
scenografia/production design
Gabriel Nechita
costumi/costume design
Cristina Mititelu
suono/sound
Mihai Bogos
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Constantin Di?? (Ion Gavril? Ogoranu, «Mo?u»), Ionu? Caras (Gheorghe Ha?iu, «Ghit?»), Bogdan Dumitrache (Laurian Ha?iu, «Leu»), C?t?lin Babliuc (Ion Chiujdea, «il professore/Professor»), Ion Bechet (Nelu Novac), Vasile Calofir (Andrei Ha?iu, «Baciu»), Constantin Lupescu (Ion Ilioi), Dan Bordeianu (Victor Metea), Bogdan Dumitrescu (Jean Pop, «Fileru»), Alexandru Potocean (Toma Pir?u, «Porâmbu»), Alin Mihalache (Gheorghe
?ov?ial?), Radu Iacoban (Gelu Novac)
produzione/production
Filmex Film Romania
vendita all’estero/world sales
Coach 14
