Script: Alexandru Tatos
Producer: Vasilica Istrate
Image: Florin Mihailescu
Editing: Iulia Vincenz
Sound: Marius Canini
Cast: George Paul Avram, Emilia Dobrin, Dragos Pîslaru, Mircea Diaconu, Constantin Drăgănescu, Geo Barton, Luminiţa Gheorghiu
Plot summary
In this interesting drama, three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together, like cars on a train, to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work on two different jobs.
In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner, through no fault of his own, is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life.
In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
AWARDS
- Award for directing
1982 – ACIN
- Award for directing
1982 – Costineşti
- Special Jury Award for male performance (Mircea Diaconu)
1982 – Costineşti
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
“We tend to stop at appearances, bypassing the truth of reality and the truth of creation, which themselves are so relative. That’s what I tried to convey in ‘Sequences'”
CRITICAL REVIEWS:
“Tatos’s sequences (three in number) represent a rare species of Romanian filmmaker eager for the truth. He aims to prove that the artist’s sources of inspiration float in the air, and that the truth is always beyond appearances; the director who films the drama of loneliness is also sentenced to solitude, the head of the Buffet is a tragic character, the obscure extras on the set hide more vibrant dramas than the banalities filmed about people”
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This premiere is part of a national archive project supported by the Romanian National Film Center.
Special thanks goes to the Romanian Filmmakers Union and to the Romanian Film Archive.
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