Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Movie
TitleSoldații. Poveste din Ferentari
User score

5.5

Release dateFeb 2, 2018
GenreDrama
DirectorIvana Mladenović
Production countryRomania, Serbia, Belgium
Production companiesHi Film Productions, Film House Baš Čelik, Frakas Productions
Run time119 min.

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.

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SOLDIERS. STORY FROM FERENTARI Trailer | TIFF 2017

Sep 13, 2017

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