Sequences...

Story

Synopsis

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Director

Alexandru Tatos

Writers

Alexandru Tatos

Language

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

Country

Romania

Release date

29 November 1982

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Geo Barton

  Papasha

• Ion Vâlcu

  movie extra

• 

  Emilia Dobrin

  herself

• 

  Mircea Diaconu

  motel keeper

• 

  Dragoș Pîslaru

  lonely young man

• 

  Alexandru Tatos

  himself

• 

  Constantin Drăgănescu

• Ioana Manolescu

• Nicolae Budescu

• Ileana Codarcea

• George Paul Avram

• Valeriu Buciu