cinematography vivi drăgan vasile
cast alexandru papadopol, dorel vişan, tania popa, coca bloss, ioan gyuri pascu, tora vasilescu, anca androne
music petru mărgineanu & ioan gyuri pascu
producer Temple Film, 2002
with the support of CNC / Romanian National Film Center
produced with the financial aid of The Hubert Balls Fund of International Film Festival Rotterdam
co-produced by BV McCann Advertising Romania
world premiere at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 2002
awards:
- Audience Award at Thessaloniki IFF
- FIPRESCI Award at Sofia IFF
- Best Film at Leeds IFF
- Best Film at Mons international Love Film Festival
- Best Film at TIFF – Cluj/ Romania
Synopsis
Almost everyone seems to want to leave Romania where life does not have too much to offer. Luci and his fiancée Sorina have just become homeless. Sorina’s father would have found something but he has been dead for years. Sorina and Luci go to his grave, waiting for a sign from heaven. In this cemetery, the three different stories come together. A bride cries on a bench, a couple of policemen rush down the alley, a red car runs slowly behind the graves. Sorina and Luci observe all these in tension. However, when the sign comes, if far from mystical: a bottle falls from the sky, straight on Luci’s head. Fortunately, they get a lift to hospital from a nice Frenchman. In an attempt to win back Sorina, Luci takes a job as a living beer bottle. In this way he meets Mihaela, who was jilted at the altar and now works as a walking telephone commercial.
Occident gathers and intersects several stories about migration and especially about those who stay behind. The three protagonists of the film influence each other’s life even without themselves knowing it.
