A Farewell to Fools (2013)

Directed by

Bogdan Dreyer

Genre

comedy film, war film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

12

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a boy in a Romanian village tries to protect a man from the Nazis with the help of a local priest. The comedy follows their efforts to avoid a German execution order.

absurdistdarkly comicslow-burnmelancholicwar-tingedsmall-towntragicomicreflective

What happens

A Farewell to Fools is a 2013 independent drama film directed by Bogdan Dreyer, produced by Giuliano Doman, Daniel Zuta and written by Anusavan Salamanian. The film stars Gérard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel, Laura Morante, and Bogdan Iancu. A Farewell to Fools was filmed in the Romanian cities of Bucharest and Sighișoara. The film is a remake of the Romanian film Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972) directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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