An overworked and underpaid production assistant criss-crosses Bucharest shooting a workplace-safety video for a multinational — a caustically funny portrait of labour and exhaustion in contemporary Europe.
- Directed by
- Radu Jude
- Starring
- Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazăr, László Miske
- Country & Year
- Roumania · 2024
- Language & Runtime
- Romanian · 163 min
- Status
- Available
Where to Watch
Festivals & Awards
- Locarno Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2023
- Toronto 2023
Press
“This is a cinema of ideas”
“Essential viewing for anyone trying to survive the world as we now know it”
“Anarchic and totally individualistic”
“A glorious, poisonous, everything-in-the-pot treatise on the state of the world today”
“Confirms Radu Jude as one of the most idiosyncratic, uncompromising, and intellectually vigorous of living filmmakers”
The Director
Radu Jude
Born in 1977 in Romania, Radu Jude graduates from the Media University of Bucharest. Then he starts as an assistant director for feature films like The Rage by Radu Muntean (2002), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu (2005) and Amen. by Costa Gavras (2002). Thereafter he signs his own short films, Wrestling (2003), The Black Sea (2004), In the Morning (2007), Alexandra (2006), and the award winning The Tube with a Hat (2006). He directs also many advertising films before tackling his feature debut, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009).