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Sitaru’s dialogue works and he does a great job establishing moods and navigating between them with a sure hand.

Screen Daily
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Adrian Sitaru
  • Romania, Poland, France 2016
  • 89 minutes
  • Romanian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Sitting at the dinner table with his four grown-up children, widower Victor relishes his role as family patriarch. He holds forth on physics and wine until his son Cosma confronts him with the fact that his name has shown up in historical documents which indicate he denounced women wanting an abortion when it was illegal. The mood abruptly shifts. Victor defends himself by pointing out that he is, after all, against abortion and that twins Sasha and Romi owe their very lives to this fact. Yet when Sasha announces she is pregnant soon afterwards, Victor’s convictions are put to a true test.
Filmography: Hooked (2008), Best Intentions (2011), Domestic (2012).


  • Director Adrian Sitaru
  • Production Anamaria Antoci, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Klaudia Smieja, Yohann Cornu
  • Script Adrian Sitaru, Alina Grigore
  • Cinematography Adrian Silisteanu, Alexandru Timosca
  • Editing Mircea Olteanu, Theo Lichtenberger
  • Music The Amsterdams
  • Festivals Berlin (Forum-CICAE Art Cinema Award), Istanbul, Odessa (Best Film Award)
  • Actors Alina Grigore, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu, Adrian Titieni
  • Source Versatile, Paris

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