4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | |
|---|---|
Theatrical poster
|
|
| Directed by | Cristian Mungiu |
| Produced by | Cristian Mungiu Oleg Mutu |
| Written by | Cristian Mungiu |
| Starring |
Adi Carauleanu Luminița Gheorghiu Mădălina Ghițescu Vlad Ivanov Anamaria Marinca Laura Vasiliu |
| Cinematography | Oleg Mutu |
| Edited by | Dana Bunescu |
| Distributed by | BAC Films |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
113 minutes |
| Country | Romania |
| Language | Romanian |
| Budget | €600,000 |
| Box office | $9,840,338 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian art film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era. It tells the story of two students, roommates in the university dormitory, who try to arrange an illegal abortion. After making its worldwide debut at Cannes, the film made its Romanian debut on 1 June 2007, at the Transilvania International Film Festival.
It opened to wide acclaim, and has since been considered one of the major films of the 2000s.
The film follows the story of Otilia Mihartescu (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabriela "Găbița" Dragut (Laura Vasiliu), two university friends in an unnamed Romanian town. The film is set in 1987, one of the last years of the Ceaușescu government. When Găbița becomes pregnant, the two girls arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) in a hotel, where he is to perform an illegal abortion (Communist Romania had a natalist policy against abortion).
At the college dorm Găbița and Otilia review the items they need for the day, and as Găbița nervously sits and waits in the room, Otilia barters and buys soap, cigarettes, etc. from school friends. Afterwards, Otilia takes a bus to visit her boyfriend Adi, from whom she borrows money. Adi asks Otilia to visit his family that night, as it is his mother's birthday, and to buy flowers on the way, to which Otilia initially declines, but she relents after Adi becomes upset.
...
Wikipedia