kontinetal'25

Kontinental'25

ROMANIA | 2025 | Comedy, drama | 1.85:1 | 2K | 5.1, stereo | 109 min. | Romanian, Hungarian, German | SUB en/fr
A film by
RADU JUDE
Cast
Eszter TOMPA, Gabriel SPAHIU, Adonis TANȚA, Șerban PAVLU, Oana MARDARE, Annamária BILUSKA, Adrian SITARU, Marius DAMIAN, Nicodim UNGUREANU, Ilinca MANOLACHE, Dan URSU, Vlad SEMENESCU, Daniel PALEACU, Theodor GRAUR, Marius PANDURU
Producer
ALEX TEODORESCU, RODRIGO TEIXEIRA, RAMONA GRAMA, DAN WECHSLER, JAMAL ZEINAL-ZADE, ANDREAS ROALD, BERTA MARCHIORI, FERNANDA FROTTÉ, PAUL THILTGES, ADRIEN CHEF
Synopsis

The film begins with a homeless man who commits suicide when he is evicted from the place

he was staying in, then the story follows Orsolya (the 45 yo bailiff who evicted him) in

her attempts to calm down her consciousness - and the film, a mix of drama and comedy,

deals with issues like the housing crisis, the new post-socialist economy, the nationalism from

Transylvania (the story is set in Cluj), the power of the language to maintain the social status

quo etc. If the structure is similar to Psycho, the title is an echo to Europe '51 by Roberto

Rossellini. Rossellini imagined a film where the moral crisis of a woman found some ways to

become meaningful. In Kontinental '25, the woman having a moral crisis (true, smaller than

Rossellini's hero) doesn't find anybody and anything to understand her. The film is a low-

budget independent one and its poverty of means is very important - another lesson from

Rossellini.

World Premiere
BERLINALE 2025
Award
Silver Bear for best Screenplay
Production company
Saga film - RT Features - Bord Cadre - Sovereign Films - Paul Thiltges Distributions
Worldsales
LUXBOX