Somewhere in Palilula
Somewhere in Palilula is not a story about communism, but about life under communism, about individuals willingly remaining prisoners of a system that suits them and which, apparently, will never ever change.
The stories of the numerous characters (be they doctors, whores, firemen, electricians, administrators, Italians, hermaphrodites, communists, wives, long living shepherds, twin dancers, and even a goat) are repetitive and build up a strange net in which playfulness, irony and triviality are tightly interwoven.
A fascinating dark comedy about a hallucinating time and place in Romania. Story is concentrated on the bitter-swet life under communism time in the little mountain city of Brezoi.
The film is developed with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, as part of slate funding grant.
Feature film, debut
Format: 35 mm
Length: '120
Director/Screenwriter: Silviu Purcarete
