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Holy Week
Status: TIFF Chisinau - free access
Producer: Anca Puiu, Dan Wechsler
Production year: 2024
Length: 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Age restrictions: 12+
Country: Romania
Original title: Holy Week
Director of photography: Andrei Butica
Director: Andrei Cohn
Screenplay: Andrei Cohn
Composer: .
Montage: Andrei Iancu, Dana Bunescu
Distribution (actors): Doru Bem, Ciprian Chiricheş, Mario Dinu, Nicoleta Lefter, Cristina Flutur, Ana Ciontea, Iulian Postelnicu, Puiu Mircea Lăscuş

Synopsis:

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.

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The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.