The Rest Is Silence

It’s no easy thing having a rich father. Grig is the 19-year-old son of a star of the National Theater at the beginning of the 20th century. His own achievements are, however, slightly disappointing… Too short to be on stage, too shy with women, too excessive in his lifestyle, the son is about to make the greatest mistake, to commit the one thing his father would consider an unforgivable sin: to direct a movie! He is dreaming of the most grandiose and long film to ever be made. It will be the exact retelling of the war against the Turks in which Romania gained its independence, 35 years ago…
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Nae Caranfil
Cinematography: Marius Panduru
Editing: Dan Nanoveanu
Sound: Gelu Costache, Florin Tabacaru, Brian Riordan
Music: Laurent Couson. Art Direction: Calin Papura
Actors: Marius Florea Vizante (Grig), Ovidiu Niculescu (Leon), Mirela Zeta (Emilia), Ioana Bulca (Aristizza), Nicu Mihoc (Tony)
Production: Domino Film
Producers: Cristian Comeaga
Costumes: Doina Levintza
Format: 35mm, Color
Production Country: Romania
Production Year: 2007
Duration: 140

Nae Caranfil

He was born in Bucharest in 1960. He graduated from Bucharest’s Academy of Theater and Cinema in 1984. He began by making shorts, which won prizes at several international festivals, then went on to write numerous screenplays for the French Compagnie des Images between 1989 and 1991. His first feature film, Don’t Lean Out the Window, a Romanian-French coproduction, won awards in Montpellier, La Baule and Bratislava. His subsequent films were box-office hits as well as critical successes. In 1995, he directed Asphalt Tango, another French- Romanian comedy with Charlotte Rampling in the leading role and, in 1999, Dolce far niente starring Francois Cluzet and Giancarlo Giannini. His black comedy Philanthropy (2001) won the Audience Award at the Paris FF and various other prizes in Wiesbaden, Mons,Wurzburg, Bratislava and Newport Beach, and screened at the Thessaloniki IFF in 2002.Written in 1988, The Rest Is Silence, received the Best Screenplay Award at the Paris FF in 1995 and Second Prize at the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Competition in Los Angeles in 1999.

Filmography

1983 Venice in September (short)
1984 Thirty Years of Insomnia (short)
1988 Backstage (doc.)
1993 E pericoloso sporgersi/ Don’t Lean Out the Window
1996 Asfalt Tango/Asphalt Tango
1998 Dolce far niente
2001 Filantropica/Philanthropy
2007 Restul e tacere/The Rest Is Silence