A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.

• DirectorLucian Pintilie
• Release16 September 1992
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 45m
• Budget$3,700,000
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  6.6
  43 reviews
• Productions

  Parnasse Production, Les Films du Scarabée, MK2 Films