SĂPTĂMÂNA MARE/HOLY WEEK

Prize Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor, Sarajevo 2024

Original language: Romanian

Subtitles: English

Directed by: Andrei Cohn

Country: Romania, Switzerland

Year of production: 2024

Length: 133 minutes

Genre: drama

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.

Credits

Andrei Cohn – Director

Andrei Cohn – Script

Andrei Butică – Cinematography

Dana Bunescu, Andrei Iancu – Editing

Ioan Daniel Soare – Sound

Casting

Doru Nicolae Bem

Nicoleta Lefter

Ciprian Chiricheș

Ana Ciontea

Dinu Gheorghe Mario

Iulian Postelnicu

Bogdan Farcaş

Mihaela Sîrbu