Completed - ROMANIAN, ITALIAN - Drama - 90 minutes
A young natural gas plumber is forced to decide between drilling through an icon in the church and destroying it, or save it by accepting drastic consequences.
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Anatol DURBALA Writer(s) : Anatol DURBALA Cast : Igor CARAS-ROMANOV, Tudor TURCAN, Olga ANGHELICI Producer(s) : Sergiu CUMATRENCO (YOUBESC CREATIVE INSTITUTE (DAX TANDEM SRL)), Sergiu PASCARU (PASCARU PRODUCTION), Sergiu PASCARU (MAYA FILMS STUDIO), Marin CUMATRENCO (BADEAMIC), Vasili TIPA (TVA LOGISTICS), Garri COVALSCHI (HERMES NVC), Nicolae POPESCU (HERMES NVC), Veaceslav CIOBANU (HERMES NVC)
Sasha works for a natural-gas company. When his wife hardly gives birth 2 months early, Sasha is searching for money to save the premature baby. Despite this, he refuses to take bribes, which threatens his job and leads to friction with his colleagues. His wife doesn’t understand him anymore. Faced with a crisis, Sasha receives an order to install a furnace in a church, where he will have to destroy an icon painted on the church wall. Hoping to save the sacred image, Sasha has to corrupt the system.
Country(ies) : MOLDOVA, ROMANIA
San Sebastian FF 2022 WIP EuropaVentana Sur 2022 European ScreeningsZurich FF 2023 Feature Film Competition