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Initial release 27 May 1994 (Romania) Music director Adrian Enescu | 8.2/10 IMDb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay Mircea Veroiu, Bujor Nedelcovici Cast Similar The Actress - the Dollars a, Fatally Wounded For Love, Viraj periculos, William the Conqueror, Michael - the Dog That Sang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sleep of the Island is a Romanian film from 1994 directed by Mircea Veroiu, inspired from the novel The Second Messenger written by Bujor Nedelcovici.
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Plot
The topic of the film points out the condition of an intellectual in time of totalitarian dictatorship, which subjugated an island from where you can not run. The only alternative is collaborating with power and internment in a rehabilitation institute. A famous writer returns to his homeland to try to confront the terror of an oppressive regime, but he ends up being himself corrupted-thanks to the aberrant system.
Cast
Production
The film was produced by Solaris-Film, in co-production with Star-Film, Cinerom R.A. and the Bucharest`s Cinematographic Studio S.A., the film being shot at Buftea. It have been used frames from the films Sezonul Pescarusilor (1985) and Detașamentul Concordia (1980). The film contains nudity scenes.
Awards
The film obtained Jury's special prize ("Silver Makhila") at the Latin World Festival of Cinematography from Arachon - France 1995.