A black comedy about life in a small Romanian province town during the 60’s, Somewhere in Palilula tells the story of Serafim, a fresh graduate of Medical School, who is brought by a gloomy whim of destiny to the town of Palilula. He encounters there a world full of weird characters, isolated in drunkenness, feasting, and orgy. Will he survive to all Palilula’s temptations?

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