The Way I Spent the End of the World

Story

Synopsis

Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.

Director

Cătălin Mitulescu

Writers

Cătălin Mitulescu, Andreea Vălean

Language

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

Country

France, Romania

Release date

15 September 2006

Ensemble

Cast

• Timotei Duma

  Lalalilu 'Lali' Matei

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  Dorotheea Petre

  Eva Matei

• Carmen Ungureanu

  Maria Matei

• Ionuţ Becheru

  Alexandru Vomică

• Cristian Văraru

  Andrei

• 

  Jean Constantin

  Uncle Florică

• 

  Monalisa Basarab

  Professorà cor

• 

  Florin Zamfirescu

  The principal of the training school

• Anca Ahrfrescu

  Soçia lui Nucu

• Sergiu Anghel

  The headmaster

• Adrian Bulboaca

  The second guitarist

• 

  Mircea Diaconu

  Grigore Matei