A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

2.38GB | 1h 54m | 828×466 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8D80A757F5FF91C/Politist_adjectiv_2009_480p_DVD_x264.mkv

Language(s):Romanian
Subtitles:English

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They talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurentiu Ginghina, it’s not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to zones and subteams, norms revised. In retrospect, he first realized that the rules of football were wrong when he was tackled during a game in his youth, in the summer holidays, on another pitch now covered in snow, but in Vaslui, not Bucharest. The tackle hit so hard it fractured his fibula, a year later his tibia broke too, on New Year’s Eve 1987, he had to walk home in the snow and no one helped him. Today he’s a local bureaucrat with an uninspiring job, it’s no wonder he prefers to talk about the game, his own version of it, to Porumboiu, his friend, the director, who’s always listening, asking questions, nearly always in frame. Ginghina’s monologues are so rich you might think someone wrote them in advance, they proceed from the same old subject, but never stay in one place. All roads lead to football, but all roads lead away from it too, to land ownership issues, to orange farms in Florida, to political utopia and the traces left by life, to version 2.0, 3.1, 4.7, to infinity.

2.04GB | 1 h 10 min | 1265×684 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/15B67264C44E04D/Infinite.Football.2018.720p.WEB-DL.h264.AAC-DEEP.mkv

Language(s):Romanian
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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It’s the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: “Was it or wasn’t it a revolution in their town?”

https://nitro.download/view/A291973F3799A57/12-08_East_of_Bucharest__Corneliu_Porumboiu__2006.mkv

Language(s):Romanian
Subtitles:English

The post Corneliu Porumboiu – A fost sau n-a fost? AKA 12-08 East of Bucharest (2006) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Second Game (Romanian: Al doilea joc) is a 2014 Romanian documentary film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The film integrally depicts the Dinamo — Steaua footbal derby played on December 3, 1988; the game is commented on by Porumboiu and his father, Adrian, the referee of that match.

It was selected for the Forum section at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Accordin to Berlinale:
A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu. The conditions are difficult at best, the play hardly sparkling. One match among many, the standard game of two halves, yellow intertitles marking time and grainy video images which merge with the snow: the perfectly unspectacular basis for a foray into the conditional. What if the ball hadn’t hit the crossbar? What if the referee had bowed to pressure and favoured one team? What if the camera had actually shown the brief ruckus on the pitch? What if the match had taken place one year later? What if snow had stopped the game from taking place at all? An endless chain of imaginary second games spiralling off from the first, each with different images, different scorelines, different allegiances, and different significances. If you were to ask which football game says the most about everything, I would tell you it is the one which is most banal.

https://nitro.download/view/50EC75A017855C2/The_Second_Game.mkv

Language(s):Romanian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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Focused on a director and his leading actress while they are off the set. They discuss the discrepancies between film and digital cinema, Western and Eastern food, and try to capture an unfiltered (and seemingly impossible) sense of “reality” on film.

https://nitro.download/view/5A99AECD7D13D07/Cand_se_lasa_seara_peste_Bucuresti_sau_metabolism_(2013)_720p_HDTV.mkv

Language(s):Romanian
Subtitles:None

The post Corneliu Porumboiu – Când se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau metabolism AKA When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.