Kontinental ’25

A film by Radu Jude. Starts October 9th at the fsk In Romanian, Hungarian and German with German subtitles.

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Cluj, Transylvania. After being dri­ven from his shel­ter in a house cel­lar, a home­l­ess man com­mits sui­ci­de. Orsolya, the bai­liff who car­ri­ed out the evic­tion, is impel­led to make various attempts to address her fee­lings of guilt. Using a mix­tu­re of dra­ma and come­dy, topics as diver­se as the housing cri­sis, post-socia­list eco­no­mics, natio­na­lism and the power of lan­guage to main­tain social sta­tus are dis­sec­ted with a sharp, absur­dist scal­pel, in a movie-lite­ra­te nar­ra­ti­ve that plays part­ly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51 – not least in the mode­s­ty of this inde­pen­dent, low-bud­get production’s means. But while in Rossellini’s film a woman’s cri­sis of con­sci­ence leads to meaningful acti­vi­ty, here the prot­ago­nist facing the dilem­ma is unable to find any­bo­dy to under­stand her and beco­mes incre­asing­ly despe­ra­te for exter­nal reassu­rance and vali­da­ti­on, in a man­ner that would be easy to con­demn if Orsolya’s moral rela­ti­vism were not such an uncom­for­ta­b­ly accu­ra­te reflec­tion of a modern-day malai­se from which few of us are whol­ly immune.

Credits:

RO 2025, 109 Min., Rumänisch, Ungarisch, Deutsch OmU
Regie: Radu Jude
Schnitt: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Kamera: Marius Panduru
mit: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, Șerban Pavlu, Annamária Biluska, Ilinca Manolache

Trailer:
KONTINENTAL ’25 by Radu Jude | Trailer | Berlinale 2025

Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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