Bucharest Identity Card

1982 1h 28m RO

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7.7

BANGER

★7.7TMDB · 16

Comedy

Synopsis

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A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Bucharest identity card to do this. Her solution is to "buy" a husband...

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Mircea Diaconu
Radu Petrescu
Catrinel Dumitrescu
Silvia Popescu
Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila
tovarășul Mateianu
Octavian Cotescu
Costică Popescu
Draga Olteanu Matei
Eleonora
Diana Lupescu
Elvira
Geo Saizescu
Avocatul
Constantin Diplan
Mihai

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Virgil Calotescu
Writers: Francisc Munteanu
Languages: Yoruba, Romanian
Countries: Romania

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RUNTIME

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88 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 7

ERA

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44 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 7

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Yoruba, Romanian.

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4 / 7

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Mircea Diaconu and Catrinel Dumitrescu and Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0121126 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 16 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Virgil Calotescu directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Romania. Dialogue in Yoruba, Romanian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

188 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
244 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Yoruba, Romanian.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Mircea Diaconu and Catrinel Dumitrescu and Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt0121126 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 16 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.