The Moromete Family 2

Moromeții 2

59th TIFF: World Premiere

A sequel to a landmark of Romanian cinema continues the genealogy of the peasants’ family that tries to preserve some time-honored values, setting the story in the post-World War II era and focusing on the figure of Niculae, the youngest son of the patriarch Ilie Moromete. Niculae is the only one of the children who has gone to school and what he wants most in this world is to finish his studies. Maybe this way he can one day recount the times when the entire order of the village’s world, where the most important thing was to own land and work it, changed upon the arrival of the communist regime and collectivization...

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Direction: Stere Gulea
Script: Stere Gulea, based on the second volume of the novel The Moromete Family by Marin Preda
Cinematography: Vivi Drăgan Vasile
Editing: Dana Bunescu, Alexandra Gulea
Music: Vasile Șirli
Actors: Horaţiu Mălăele, Iosif Paştina, Dana Dogaru, Oana Pellea, Răzvan Vasilescu, Gheorghe Visu, Andi Vasluianu
Production: Libra Film
Producers: Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu
Co-production: CNC Romania, Ministry of Culture Cinema Studio, HBO Romania, TVR
Art Direction: Cristian Niculescu
Costumes: Dana Păpăruz
Format: DCP
Color: B&W
Production Country: Romania
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 110΄
Contact: Libra Film Productions, office@librafilm.net

Special Screening

Stere Gulea

Stere Gulea was born in 1943 in Constanța. He is of Aromanian origin. Apart from his best known feature Morometii / The Moromete Family (1987), he also co-directed the documentary Piata Universitatii – Romania / University Square – Romania (1991), a presentation of the one-month long rally in University Place, Bucharest, where Romanian people demonstrated against the neo-communist government which had taken power after the toppling of communist dictator Ceausescu. After 1989, Stere Gulea became a respected civil society activist.

Filmography

1978 Iarba Verde de Acasă | The Green Grass of Home
1981 Castelul din Carpați | Castle of the Carpathians
1983 Ochi de urs | The Bear’s Eye
1987 Moromeții | The Moromete Family
1991 Piața Universității – Romania | University Square – Romania (doc)
1993 Vulpe – Vânător | Fox – Hunter
1996 Stare de Fapt | State of Things
2004 Hacker
2009 Weekend Cu Mama | Weekend with My Mother
2013 Sunt o babă comunistă | I Am an Old Communist Hag
2018 Moromeții 2 | The Moromete Family 2