Diana Cavallioti

Cristian Mungiu's collection of five short comedies takes a bitingly satirical look at life in Romania during the final years of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. The individual episodes give an idea of how surreal and absurd the lot of the ordinary Romanian could be made by the machinations of their nation's brand of communism.

As a cutthroat businessman deals with his competition, a sudden threat disrupts his way of life and pushes him to seek comfort from an old friend.

The seemingly random encounters of a radio DJ, prison warden and convict unfold through three intersecting stories set in and around a Bucharest prison.

The year is 1944 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Galvanised into action after the death of his wife, Hungarian barrister Sonson finds himself leading an inspirational fight back against the increasingly desperate and dangerous Nazis in the dying embers of the war.