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Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 2, 2018

Runtime

1h 59m

Genres

Drama

User Score

55%

Original Title

Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari

Production Companies

Hi Film Productions, Film House Baš Čelik, Frakas Productions

Director

Ivana Mladenović

Description

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.