An Unforgettable Summer (1994)

O vară de neuitat (1994)

81 min. - Drama - PG 12 - 21.04.1995

Synopsis:

Romania in the 20ies. In a border town on the left bank of the Danube the mansion of Lady Vorvoreanu glitters with the lights of a ball honored by all the local nobility. The young Dumitriu couple is the toast of the event: he is a captain in the Romanian army, while she, Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy — Hungarian by father — is a prodigious "Middle European" beauty. The young woman, deeply faithful to her family, scorns the advances of General Ipsilanti, which leads to the Dumitriu family's transfer to an isolated garrison in the Dobroudja region. To avenge the massacre of Roumanian frontier guards by Macedonian bandits, Cpt. Dumitriu is ordered to take Bulgarian villagers as hostages and shoot them. Captain Dumitriu refuses to obey…
Screenplay of Lucian Pintilie after the novella "The Salad" by Petru Dumitriu.

Director: Lucian Pintilie

Writer: Lucian Pintilie

Stars: Kristin Scott-Thomas, Claudiu Bleonț, Olga Tudorache, George Constantin

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Andrei Gorzo despre „O vară de neuitat - Un studiu critic”

Casting:

	Kristin Scott Thomas	Marie-Therese von Debresty
	Claudiu Bleonţ	Cpt. Petre Dumitriu
	Olga Tudorache	Mrs. Vorvoreanu

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Produced By

Filmex (Romania), Studioul Ministerului Culturii (România), MK2 Productions (Franța), Cinema La Sept,
Canal +, Ministerul Culturii și Francofoniei (Franța)
Cu sprijinul Centrului Național al Cinematografiei

Production info

Ecran normal, color, 2246 m.

Distributors

MKL - MK2 Diffusion

Festivals, Awards

1994-1995 - UCIN - Grand Prize and Best Art design, Best Costumes, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Tamara Creţulescu), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Răzvan Vasilescu)

Trivia

Lucian Pintilie about "the reabilitation of a concept"
"What is the most efficient way of dominating people and setting them against each other - in particular when political terror has been abandoned or when the legitimacy of the State is disputed?
Arousing the darkest tribal instincts, extolling specificities, canceling the right to be different, - the rehabilitation of the concept that we had thought buried for ever, that of ETHNIC CLEANSING" (Presentation of the film, 21.04.1995)

Articles

Pintilie aplaudat de presa internațională - Eugenia Vodă
Presa străină despre film
Atrocele la porțile Orientului - Doinel Tronaru
„O vară de neuitat” de Lucian Pintilie, la Cinemateca ICR Viena
“O vară de neuitat” la TV5 Monde
O vară de neuitat - Eugenia Vodă
NexT Cultural Society to release the critical study “An Unforgettable Summer”
Studiile critice Éducation à l’image – Societatea Culturală NexT (I) - Andrei Gorzo
The Subtle Recipe of the Movie “An Unforgettable Summer”: Refusal of Melancholy