Every film by Radu Jude is an event, and Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World is no exception. Two years after winning the Golden Bear, Jadu returns with yet another brilliant and bitingly witty satire. In the first part of the film, we follow Angela, an underpaid production assistant, who roams the streets of Bucharest in her car, searching for the location of a corporate video shoot. In the second part, we witness the scandal that erupts because of the video – and its cover-up. A delightful road movie and a sharp commentary on Romanian society, this film is a playful manipulation of form and food for thought about the flexibility of labor and the superficiality of digital media culture. Junte’s movie satirizes the emerging absolutism of our times with rare wit and intelligence.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii
64th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Radu Jude
- Script: Radu Jude
- Cinematography: Marius Panduru
- Editing: Cătălin Cristuțiu
- Sound: Marius Leftărache, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc
- Actors: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazăr, Katia Pascariu
- Production: 4 Proof Film
- Producers: Ada Solomon, Adrian Sitaru
- Co-production: Paul Thiltges Distributions, Les Films d’Ici, Kinorama, microFILM
- Co-producers: Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges, Serge Lalou, Claire Dornoy, Ankica Jurić Tilić
- Costumes: Radu Jude
- Production Design: Cristian Niculescu, Andreea Popa
- Executive producer: Diana Caravia
- Make Up: Bianca Boeroiu
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color, B/W
- Production Country: Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia
- Production Year: 2023
- Duration: 163'
- Distribution in Greece: Cinobo
- Contact: Heretic
- Awards/Distinctions: Special Jury Prize – Locarno International Film Festival 2023
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, and Everybody in Our Family followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinemas Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered in Berlinale Forum 2020. His next feature, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021. In the summer of 2021, Radu Jude was present in Locarno IFF – Corti d’Autore with the short Caricaturana and in Venice IFF – Out of Competition with the short film Semiotic Plastic. His short The Potemkinists premiered in Directors' Fortnight in 2022 and has traveled in over 20 festivals up to now. In 2023, he won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. One year later, he returned to the same festival to premiere his two latest films: Eight Postcards From Utopia and Sleep #2.
Filmography
2006 The Tube with a Hat (short)
2009 The Happiest Girl in the World
2012 Everybody in Our Family
2015 Aferim!
2016 Scarred Hearts
2017 The Dead Nation (doc)
2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2023 Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
2024 Eight Postcards from Utopia (doc)
2024 Sleep #2 (doc)
2009 The Happiest Girl in the World
2012 Everybody in Our Family
2015 Aferim!
2016 Scarred Hearts
2017 The Dead Nation (doc)
2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2023 Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
2024 Eight Postcards from Utopia (doc)
2024 Sleep #2 (doc)
