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Release Date: 23 Thu, May 2002
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
as Luci
as Sorina
as Mihaela
as The Cop
as Spaniard
as Gică
as Nae
as Uncle Jean
as Agency Director
as Luigi
as The General
as Mihaela's mother
as Dutch Woman
as The Italian
as Chelul
as Jerome
as Big Mother
as Auntie Leana
as The Director
as Gabriel
as Administrator
as Magazine Director
as Translator
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