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Le CHÊNE
(1992)
List of alternative names
- BALANTA
- OAK TREE
- OAK
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- Not available
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- France
- Romania
- Notes
- In Cannes Festival 1992: Selection Officielle.
Library Synopsis
Conveys the brutality of life under the dictatorship of Ceausescu. Nela travels to the provinces to take up a teaching post. When she eventually arrives she is gang-raped outside the station which leads to her meeting a like-minded, free-spirited doctor at the hospital. The film goes on to depict their lives under the oppression of daily injustice and...
Top five credits
- Director
- PINTILIE, Lucian
- Production Company
- Parnasse Production
- Production Company
- CNC - Centre national de la cinématographie
- Production Company
- Scarabée Films
- Production Company
- Canal+
Top five cast
- Nela
- MORGENSTERN, Maïa
- Mitica
- VASILESCU, Razvan
- Mayor
- REBENGIUC, Victor
- country priest
- VISAN, Dorel
- Cast Member
- MIHUT, Mariana