The story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic.
A solid Romanian/German co-production, a road movie and a coming-of-age movie, all together blended and mashed up. Of course it ends bad for some characters, showing the futility of trying to resist the methods of a regime, regardless if it’s a communist, or capitalist one, showing how for The State, the individual si nothing but currency, a means to an end, an asset. There’s a lot of fine (and not-so-fine) irony in this movie, and it has the objective of showing you that it doesn’t matter how far you run, every place has its political regime that wants something from you. Five popcorns for a solid movie that goes into the Movie Vault. Thanks once again to Andrei, for his recommendation.
