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.
- Genre: Drama
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- Stars: Adrian Cozac, Adrian Schiop, Alexandru Conovaru, Alin Codrea, Alin Marcu, Bulgaras, Cătălin Rotaru, Cezar Grumăzescu, Constantin Luga, Constantin Titi Nicolae, Cristina Pucean, Dan Bursuc, Dinu Cozmin, Emilia Stavarache, Emilia Velchereanu, Florin Pilica, Gabriel Cozac, Gabriel Panait, George Remes, Ioana Barbu, Ionut Cercel, Irina Tacu, Kana Jambe, Kanako Hashimoto, Kote Samuel Marian, Mugurel Craioveanu, Narcisa, Nicolae Marin, Olimpia Mălai, Puiu-Mircea Lăscuș, Robert Emanuel, Sorin Cociș, Sorin Sandu, Ștefan Iancu, Stela Ciorea, Vasile Pavel, Virginia Cuza, Vlad Jipa, Zita Moldovan
- Duration: 119 min
- Director: Ivana Mladenović
- Country: BE, RO, RS
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