Dogs (2015)

Trivia

• My grandmother told me about these two men from her village who got into a fight inside the Town Hall. After a while one of them pulled a knife and stabbed the other one to death. What happened to the killer? I asked. Nothing, she answered with a shrug. He was in the right. There are places in Romania - rural, godforsaken territories - where "the law" is nothing but an abstract, remote concept. What’s really in place is the law of the people that live there. Set in such a place - the endless barren fields of Dobrogea, Dogs is an emotional and moral labyrinth that has at its core the oldest conflict of them all: man set against man.
• Film – „I started to write on Dogs about 4 years ago – the story stayed with me, it gestated, I wrote the screenplay, I transformed it, I stylized it. When I write, I like to let the script dictate its own rhythm – and, of course, in this case, apart from writing, it was also about the time necessary to gather the financing. The locations I found for the shoot are the geographical extension of misshaped psychologies, lacking emotion and humanity.”
• Casting – „I needed actors with a special fibre, with smouldering virility, that could explode at any moment. I am talking about their artistic potential, and not about them in real life.”