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Face to Face ( Fata in Fata)
Romania (1998)
About the film
This sharp satire on intrusive TV reporting takes place against the
true-life background of eastern European families torn apart by
revelations of collaboration with the secret police. One morning, famous
poet and political dissident Iona Petroni is confronted with the news
that her husband Victor was an informer for the Securitate. The case
becomes a national sensation, turning the wronged Ioana and the
betraying Victor’s lives into a cross between "Ed TV" and
"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf." While the rest of Romania
seems to be weighing in with its opinions, the couple struggles to hold
a marriage together and understand how the endless pressures of life in
a dictatorship eventually corrupted them. A black comedy made out of the
cruel truths of a society based on distrust.
Director's filmography
Marius Theodor Barna, (b. 1960). In 1995 graduated from the
Institute for Theatre and Motion Picture Arts in Film and TV Direction.
He is also a prolific and acclaimed writer.
His films include Mail-Life-13’ (1995, short), War In The
Kitchen (Razboi In Bucatarie, 1998), and Face To Face (Fata
in Fata, 1998)
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90 min., color, 35mm
Romanian with English subtitles
Director: Marius Th. Barna
Screenplay: Barna
Dir. of photography: Alex Solomon
Sound: Cristian Tarnovetki, Dumitru Fleancu
Music: Petru Margineanu
Editor: Melania Oproiu
Production: ARTIS/ONC, National Film Office
Cast: Maia Morgenstern, Serban Ionescu, Serban Pavlu, Mircea
Diaconu, Magda Catone, Adrian Titieni
Contact: National Film Office
4-6 Dem Dobrescu Str.
Bucharest 1, Romania
vox: 40.l.310430l
fax: 40.1.3100672
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