In this grim depiction of life in Romania during the Ceausescu dictatorship, corruption and tyranny are seen as contending with sheer incompetence for control of a dysfunctional society. The writer-director of THE OAK, Lucian Pintilie, has the distinction of havinq been personally exiled
by Ceausescu in the early 1970s.
Nela (Maia Mergenstern) is used to living far better than in the dingy, cluttered Bucharest apartment she shares with her father (Virgil Andriescu), an ex-colonel in the Securitate (secret police). He is unable to receive proper medical care and expires while the two of them are watching home
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Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins