Country: Romania
Year: 2023
Duration: 163'
A Tale of Cinema and Economics in Two Parts: overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.
Biography
film director
Radu Jude
(Bucharest, Romania, 1977), graduated in film in 2003; he directed his first short in 2006 and debuted in feature films in 2009 with The Happiest Girl in the World, presented and awarded at the Berlinale Forum, as was his next movie, Everybody in Our Family (2012). He then participated in the Directors' Fortnight with the shorts Shadow of a Cloud (2013) and It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014). In 2015 he participated in competition at the Berlinale with Aferim!, which won the Silver Lion for best director. His movie Scarred Hearts (2016) participated in competition at the festival of Locarno, where, the following year, he presented his documentary about the extermination of the Jews in Romania during the 1930s and ‘40s, The Dead Nation, and in 2023 Don't Expect too Much from the End of the World, gaining the Jury Award. Torino Film Festival presented in 2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, halfway among fiction, documentary, cinema and performance, which was followed by Uppercase Print (2020) and above all Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Golden Bear in Berlin.
FILMOGRAFIA
In familie (serie tv, 2002), Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat, cm, 2006), Alexandra (cm, 2006), Dimineata (In the Morning, cm, 2007), Cea mai fericitã fatã din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009), Film pentru prieteni (A Film for Friends, 2011), Toata lumea din familia noastra (Everybody in Our Family, 2012), O umbra de nor (Shadow of a Cloud, cm, 2013), Trece si prin perete (It Can Pass Through the Wall, cm, 2014), Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã (coregia Andrei Cretulescu, Luiza Parvu, Iulia Rugina, 2014), Aferim! (2015), Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts, 2016), Tara moarta (The Dead Nation, doc., 2017), Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2018), O fabula (cm, 2020), Nu stiu (cm, 2020), Stimati oameni de cultura (cm, 2020), Sesso sfortunato o follie porno (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc, 2021), Caricaturana (cm, 2021), Plastic Semiotic (cm, 2021), Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est (cm, 2022), Potemkinistii (The Potemkinists, cm, 2022), Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii (Don't Expect too Much from the End of the World, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“Do not Expect too Much from the End of the World is a fragmentary film (part comedy, part road movie, part montage film, part camera based film) about work, exploitation, death and the new gig economy.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, COSTUMES: Radu Jude. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marius Panduru. EDITING: Cătălin Cristuțiu. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Cristian Niculescu, Andreea Popa. SOUND: Marius Leftărache. CAST: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazăr, László Miske, Katia Pascariu. PRODUCERS: Ada Solomon, Adrian Sitaru. CO-PRODUCERS: Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges, Serge Lalou, Claire Dornoy, Ankica Jurić Tilić. PRODUCTION: 4 Proof Film. CO-PRODUCTION: Paul Thiltges Distributions, Les Films d'Ici, Kinorama, microFILM.
CONTACT: I Wonder Pictures distribution@iwonderpictures.it
