Occident (2002)

Directed by

Cristian Mungiu

Genre

drama film

Country

Romania

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

AP

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young married couple in Romania struggle with money and decide to move to Western Europe for a better life. Their separate attempts to leave their homeland test their relationship and reveal the hard choices people make when chasing opportunity.

tragicomicbittersweetmelancholicwryobservationalrestlessyearningunvarnished

What happens

Occident is a 2002 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It stars Alexandru Papadopol as a 29-year-old man named Luci and Anca Androne as his wife Sorina. The film is a tragicomedy about young people who move to the West when they are not financially successful in Romania. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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