Filantropica

Filantropica (2002)

Nella Bucarest del ventunesimo secolo, uscire il sabato sera con una bella ragazza è un investimento finanziario rischioso. Ovidiu, un modesto professore di liceo, non se lo può permettere.

Data di uscita
2002-03-15
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (133)
Durata
1 h 50 min
Generi
Commedia, Dramma
Regista
Nae Caranfil

Cast

Curiosità

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Filantropica is a 2002 Romanian black comedy film written and directed by Nae Caranfil. Mircea Diaconu plays Ovidiu Gorea, a poorly paid Bucharest schoolteacher who ends up working for a begging ring run by a former convict, Pavel "Pepe" Puiuț, played by Gheorghe Dinică. Mara Nicolescu and Viorica Vodă, both in their first film roles, complete the main cast. The film is a co-production between Romania and France.

Production

Caranfil has said that the script grew out of two ideas he had first tried separately. One came from a newspaper article about a real man called Pepe, who after a prison sentence had made a business of writing scripts for beggars. The other was an anecdote about a couple who celebrated ten years of marriage at a restaurant and were handed an enormous bill. Each idea had stalled on its own.

In an interview with Iulia Blaga a month before the release, Caranfil said that the film started from everyday life without copying it. He had done little research and worried that the story would seem implausible until a former classmate, by then a police officer, confirmed his hunches. Beggars, he said, come in several kinds, professionals and amateurs, and their money travels to different places.

The screenplay was later published as a free e-book by Editura LiterNet, with an introduction by the critic Andrei Gorzo.

Caranfil said that he does not usually think of actors while writing, but Gheorghe Dinică was in his mind from the start, and the part of Pavel Puiuț was written for him. For Ovidiu he auditioned many actors, looking for a young Mircea Diaconu. In the end he went back to Diaconu himself, who had starred in his Asphalt Tango six years earlier.

The producers were Cristian Comeagă and Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre. The film was made by Domino Film and MediaPro Pictures in Romania together with MACT Productions in France, which held a minority share. Romania's National Centre of Cinematography (CNC) and Canal+ took part, and the Council of Europe's Eurimages fund approved support in July 2000, at its board meeting in Budapest, under the scheme that weighs artistic value first.

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