Director: Silviu Purcărete
Cast: Áron Dimény, George Mihaiță, Răzvan Vasilescu
Production and Format: Romania, 2012, 145’, Blu-ray
The 60’s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.
Palilula, an authentic “Macondo” from the region of Oltenia, it’s a place where the insignificant coexists with charming things; in the hospital, the patients are perfectly healthy, and one of their favorite entertainments is to assist at the dissections in the morgue. The rest of the population is charming and imbecile at the same time, forever isolated in drunkenness, feasting, and orgy. The young doctor Serafim will not get to practice his profession in this childless town.
Serafim gradually adapts to the life in this world and ends up belonging to it, even without wanting.
Romanian with English subtitles.