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The Oak

1992, Movie, NR, 105 mins

The Oak: Review

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... read more leave a comment