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The Oak

1992, Movie, 1h 45min

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.

Country: France,Romania

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Critic William Repass

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...like laughter, the film’s naïve utopianism is infectious, demanding that we live as though life were worth it in spite of all evidence to the contrary.

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