Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
Original Title
Soldatii. Poveste din Ferentari- Director: Ivana Mladenovic
- Writer: Ivana Mladenovic; Adrian Schiop
- Producer: Jelena Mitrovic; Jean-Yves Roubin
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Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
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Cast & Characters
Dan Bursuc as The Manager;
Sorin Cocis as The Policeman;
Cezar Grumarescu as Vasi;
Kana Hashimoto as Brigitte;
Stefan Iancu as Andrei;
Nicolae Marin as Borcan;
Vasile Pavel as Alberto;
Adrian Schiop as Adi