Original language:
ROMANIAN
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Binecuvantata fii, inchisoare!
Bless you prison
Average: 4
- ratings (5)
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Director:
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Nicolae Margineanu
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Production:
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Ager Film
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Year:
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2003
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Running time:
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86'
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Cast:
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Dorina lazar,
Ecaterina Nazarie,
Iulia Lazar,
Maria Ploae,
Maria Rotaru,
Romanita Ionescu,
Victoria Cocias
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Genre:
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Drama,
Filmul Românesc
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Plot synopsis:
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A young intellectual woma...
A young intellectual woman, Nicole, is arrested in the years of Stalinism simply for being an active member of an opposition party. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics. She proceeds to an in-depth soul-searching that helps her discover the power of faith and steels her to put up resistance. Nicole goes through the ordeal of communist prisons, conflicts and risky activities, and manages to provide a heartening example for the other inmates. Daily prison life is not drab but full of unexpected happenings like a story. This is an extremely objective film that scans with warmth and sensitivity a woman's emotional testimony of faith. 
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Nation:
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ROMANIA
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Cinematography:
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Doru Mitran
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Film editor:
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Melania Oproiu
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Screenplay:
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Lari Ionescu
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Play4film's point of view:
This is the true story, as recounted in the autobiographical novel "Bless you, Prison" by Nicole Valery-Grossu, of a woman who finds herself only when confronted with an extreme situation. Accused of belonging to a party opposed to Stalinism, Nicole is imprisoned by the regime, interrogated and isolated, yet it is this prison experience which compells her to search inside herself for a depth of faith. Although "Binecuvantata fii, inchisoare!" charts a path of religious growth, a slow yet inexorable path of faith, the story becomes a symbol of the importance of maintaining ones own point of view even when it is not shared by the majority.
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