MANOR HOUSE

Director - Cristi Puiu

Script - Cristi Puiu

Camera - Tudor Panduru

Cast - Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Agathe Bosch, Diana Sakalauskaité, Marina Palii, Ugo Broussot, István Téglás

Producers - Anca Puiu, Smaranda Puiu

Production - Mandragora, Iadasarecasa

The guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner and man of the world Nikolai over the Christmas holidays are hand-picked. Among them is a politician, a young countess and a general with his wife. They converse and dine – what a wonderful, much-missed way of life – indulge in parlour games and discuss the right form of authority in the face of political impotence as well as progress and morality, death and the Antichrist. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent and the mood grows tense. In the end, everyone will become a victim of his or her own discourse.

„Christi Puiu orchestrates a classic Buñuelian premise with abject sternness. Manor House is an elaborate and rewarding straight-faced joke.”
Soham Gadre, Film Inquiry

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Berlin ’20 – Encounters Award – Best Director Seville ’20 – Best Film, Best Screenplay

Program

18.09.2021
DOM NA KINOTO - 18.00 часа
19.09.2021
CINEMA ODEON - 19.00 часа

Cristi Puiu

Romanian director, born in Bucharest in 1967. He studied painting at the Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. He made several short films and documentaries during his studies and, after returning to Romania, continued painting, and directed his first feature, Stuff and Dough. This was followed by his short Cigarettes and Coffee, which won the Golden Bear for best short film at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival. He also won the prize of Un Certain Regard section at Cannes FF with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. In 2017 Christie Puyu was the president of the international jury of the 21-st Sofia Film Fest.

FILMOGRAPHY

2001 Stuff and Dough (Marfa si banii)
2004 Cigarettes and Coffee (Un cartus de kent siun pachet de cafea) – short
2005 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lazarescu)
2010 Aurora
2013 Three Exercises of Interpretation (Trois exercices d'interprétation)
2014 Bridges of Sarajevo – segment "Das Spektrum Europas" (Ponts de Sarajevo – segment "Das Spektrum Europas")
2016 Sieranevada
2020 Malmkrog

MANOR HOUSE / MALMKROG

Romania-Serbia-Switzerland-Sweden-Bosnia and Herzegovina-North Macedonia, 2020, 200′, color, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Cristi Puiu