The Romanian director Cristian Mungiu surprised the whole world on Sunday night, after winning the prestigious Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for his film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". The only other Romanian director who ever received this prize is Liviu Ciulei, who won the Cannes award for best director in 1965, with the movie "Padurea Spanzuratilor".
The movie directed by Cristian Mungiu will be presented in Romania for the first time at the TIFF - Transylvania International Film Festival.
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is a drama, set in the last years of the Ceausescu's dictatorial regime, narating how the main character, Gabita (actress Laura Vasiliu) gets an illegal abortion.
Another Romanian director, Cristian Nemescu, received a posthumous award, the "Un certain regard", for his "California dreaming". The director was killed in a car accident last year and never got to finish his production.
May 2007
