Maria

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• Genre(s): Drama
• Language(s): Română (Romanian)
• Director(s): Călin Peter Netzer
• Cast(s): Horatiu Malaele, Serban Ionescu, Luminița Gheorghiu, Rona Hartner, Florin Călinescu See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 37min
• Award(s): Don Quixote - Special Mention 2003 (Won)
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• Similar To: The Happiest Girl in the World, Coborâm la prima
• Story:
  When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.
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