Holy Week

Section: Zilele Filmului Românesc
Title: Săptămâna mare
Director: Andrei Cohn
Cast: Doru Bem, Ciprian Chiricheş, Mario Dinu, Nicoleta Lefter
Duration: 2h 13m
Country: Romania
Language: ro
Year: 2024

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.