Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

119 mins | Drama | Feb. 2, 2018

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.

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

119 mins | Drama | Feb. 2, 2018

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Film House Bas Celik, Hi Film Productions, Frakas Productions
Original title Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari
Directors Ivana Mladenović
Writers Adrian Schiop, Ivana Mladenović

Cast

Dan Bursuc

as Manager

Sorin Cociș

as Policeman

Kanako Hashimoto

as Brigitte

Ștefan Iancu

as Andrei

Nicolae Marin

as Borcan

Vasile Pavel

as Alberto

Adrian Schiop

as Adi