4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

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Plot

Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania.

Release Year: 2007

Rating: 7.9/10 (26,159 voted)

Critic's Score: 97/100

Director:
Cristian Mungiu

Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu

Storyline
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania.

Writers: Cristian Mungiu, Razvan Radulescu

Cast:

Anamaria Marinca
–

Otilia

Laura Vasiliu
–

Gabriela 'Gabita' Dragut

Vlad Ivanov
–

Viarel 'Domnu' Bebe

Alexandru Potocean
–

Adi Radu

(as Alex Potocean)

Luminita Gheorghiu
–

Gina Radu – Adi's mother

Adi Carauleanu
–

Dr. Radu – Adi's father

Liliana Mocanu
–

Unireal Hotel receptionist

Tania Popa
–

Night receptionist

Teodor Corban
–

Unireal Hotel receptionist

(as Teo Corban)

Cerasela Iosifescu
–

Receptionist Tineretului

Doru Ana
–

Benzanirul

Eugenia Bosânceanu
–

Domnu' Bebe's mother

Ion Sapdaru
–

Dr. Rusu

(as Ioan Sapdaru)

Cristina Burbuz
–

Marie-Jeanne Rusu

(as Cristina Buburuz)

Marioara Sterian
–

Adela Racoviceanu

Taglines:
How far would you go for a friend?

Details

Official Website:
Bac Films [France]|
Official site|

Release Date: 24 August 2007

Filming Locations: Bucharest, Romania

Box Office Details

Budget: €600,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: €125,500
(Italy)
(26 August 2007)
(125 Screens)

Gross: $1,185,783
(USA)
(4 May 2008)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Romania's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

Goofs:

Anachronisms:
The trams in the movie came into service in late 90's. Trams in the late 1980s had half-sliding doors, and central command.

Quotes:

[first lines]

[subtitled version]

Otilia:
OK.

Gabriela 'Gabita' Dragut:
Thanks.

User Review

Probably best Romanian movie

Rating: 10/10


This is a movie from the highest rated young Romanian director who won
highest appreciation from the Cannes festival (Golden Palm) in 2007.
It's a movie that will make you feel like a human being again and after
seeing it you will surely think much better about Romanian
cinematography. The movie is a drama of a human being that is oppressed
by the communist regime in Romania, one of the most criminal regimes of
this century.In the last years of the Romanian communism, the
dictator's wife "Elena Ceausescu" made it clear for everyone that
abortion is no longer permitted and that had a lot of implications
later on. Although the movie is not about the regime itself but about
the character and her personal drama. 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days is
supposedly the beginning of a series of films Mungiu is hoping to make
called The Golden Age, each about life in Communist Romania. I hope
he's successful; if this film is an example of the kind of rough-hew
humanity and blunt realism we can expect in future films, I'd
definitely seek them out. As it is, 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days moved me
and challenged me, made me feel and made me think, demonstrated the
personal and political challenges of a heartbreaking choice that, in
many ways, is no choice at all– and that's a rare enough achievement,
and one worthy of seeking out.This movie is a work of art