The Photographer (segment "The Legend of the Party Photographer")
Estudo bem-humorado sobre o “jeitinho” romeno, filme mostra a criatividade com que pessoas comuns desenvolvem esquemas para contornar os absurdos do cotidiano, como na época do regime de Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989). Uma fina ironia percorre seis episódios que baseiam-se em “lendas urbanas” do período que o governo comunista romeno definia como “a era do ouro”.
Fou
When his credit card has just been swallowed by distributor Bruno Lussac, State Inspector Débé crosses the limits of home ethics when he learns that he has just been banned from banking. Disguised as a Southerner for a costume party where he was supposed to arrest drug dealers, he lures his colleagues into robbing a bank; he causes a bloodbath but comes out victorious of this heist. For his accomplices, the informant, and pretty peacekeeper Cécile Barko, known as Cyborg, this is the start of a crazy run.
Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu.
Laur
Lișcă is a woman who awaits the return of her husband from war, only he is long overdue. Many callers come, yet she holds on to the hope her husband will return.
