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