Reconstruction

Reconstituirea

Two young students get wildly drunk one night and get into a violent fight in a bar. A few days later, they are led back to the scene of the crime by a prosecutor, a party secretary, a police officer, a teacher and a film crew. Instead of going to jail, the two of them will have to play in a state-sponsored educational documentary film against alcoholism. But the reenactment will have a far more tragic outcome than the real-life events. Hailed as the “freest Romanian film of all time,” the second feature of the recently deceased legendary figure of Romanian cinema blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, authority and revolt.
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Direction: Lucian Pintilie
Script: Lucian Pintilie, Horia Pătraşcu
Cinematography: Sergiu Huzum
Editing: Eugenia Naghi
Sound: Andrei Papp
Actors: George Constantin, Emil Botta, George Mihăiţă, Vladimir Găitan, Ernest Maftei, Ileana Popovici, Ştefan Moisescu, Ion Rădulescu
Production: Bucharest Cinema Studios
Art Direction: Aurel Ionescu
Costumes: Florina Tomescu
Format: DCP
Color: B&W
Production Country: Romania
Production Year: 1969
Duration: 99΄
Contact: Romanian National Film Archive, anf@xnet.ro

Lucian Pintilie

He was born in 1933 in modern-day Ukraine. A graduate of the Cinema and Theater Art Institute, he has been the director of the Cinema Creation Studio of the Romanian Culture Ministry. His first film, Sunday at Six, won six international awards. In 1998, his film Next Stop Paradise received the Grand Prize at Venice. He passed away in May 2018.

Filmography

1965 Duminica la ora 6 | Sunday at Six
1968 Reconstituirea | Reconstruction
1973 Pavilionul nr. 6 | Ward at 6
1979 De ce trag clopotele, Mitica? | Carnival Scenes
1992 Balanta | The Oak
1994 O vara de neuitat
1996 Prea tirziu | Too Late
1998 Terminus Paradis/Next Stop Paradise
2000 Dupa amiaza unui tortionar | The Afternoon of a Torturer
2003 Niki Ardelean, colonel in rezerva | Niki and Flo
2006 Tertium non datur (short)