An Unforgettable Summer

An Unforgettable Summer
Poster of the film in its French version
Directed by	Lucian Pintilie
Produced by	Lucian Pintilie Marin Karmitz Constantin Popescu Paul Bortnovschi
Written by	Petru Dumitriu (book) Lucian Pintilie (screenplay)
Starring	Kristin Scott Thomas Claudiu Bleonţ Olga Tudorache George Constantin
Music by	Anton Şuteu
Cinematography	Călin Ghibu
Edited by	Victoriţa Nae
Distributed by	MK2 Productions
Release date	1994
Running time	81 minutes
Country	Romania France
Language	Romanian (main) French (additional dialogue) English (additional dialogue)
Box office	$65,352

An Unforgettable Summer (French: Un été inoubliable; Romanian: O vară de neuitat) is a 1994 drama film directed and produced by Lucian Pintilie. A Romanian-French co-production based on a chapter from a novel by Petru Dumitriu, it stars British actress Kristin Scott Thomas as the Hungarian-born aristocrat Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy. Her marriage with Romanian Land Forces captain Petre Dumitriu brings her to Southern Dobruja (present-day northeastern Bulgaria), where they settle in 1925. There, she witnesses first-hand the violent clashes between, on one hand, the Greater Romanian administration, and, on the other, komitadji brigands of Macedonian origin and ethnic Bulgarian locals. The film shows her failed attempt to rescue Bulgarians held hostage by the Romanian soldiers, and who are destined for execution. An Unforgettable Summer also stars Claudiu Bleonţ as Captain Dumitriu and Marcel Iureş as Ipsilanti, a general whose unsuccessful attempt to seduce Von Debretsy and the resulting grudge he holds against the couple account for Dumitriu's reassignment.

Completed in the context of the Yugoslav wars, the film constitutes an investigation into the consequences of xenophobia and state-sanctioned repression, as well as an indictment of a failure in reaching out. It is thus often described as a verdict on the history of Romania, as well as on problems facing the Balkans at large, and occasionally described as a warning that violence could also erupt in a purely Romanian context.