17-04-2012

PRODUCTION: Romania's Mungiu in Post-Production with French/Belgian Coproduction

By FNE Staff

    BUCHAREST: Director/writer Cristian Mungiu's new feature Beyond the Hills is in the last stages of post-production and in anticipation of an invitation to screen at Cannes film festival 2012.

     

    Mungiu won the Palm d'Or with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days in 2007.

    In Beyond the Hills Mungiu tackles the friendship between two young women in an Orthodox convent in contemporary Romania. His script is based on the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran, a Romanian journalist who documented the case of a young novice who died in 2005 after being subjected to an exorcism ritual in the Moldavian monastery of Tanacu.

    Mungiu is producing the film through his company Mobra Films (www.mobrafilms.ro), in co-production with Why Not Production (www.whynotproductions.fr), Wild Bunch (www.wildbunch.biz), Les Films du Fleuve (www.lesfilmsdufleuve.be), France 3 Cinéma (www.france3.fr) and Mandragora Movies. The project is supported with 273,100 Euro by the National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro). Eurimages (www.coe.int/t/dg4/eurimages) contributed 400,000 Euro.

    The main actors are little known with the exception of Valeriu Andriuţă who played a significant part in Mungiu's first feature, Occident. Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan play the main characters, Voichiţa and Alina. Oleg Mutu (432, Moy Joy) is the DOP. The movie was developed under the working title Provisory/Provizoriu. Shooting took place under the radar between November 2011-February 2012. Beyond the Hills/După dealuri has already been picked up by Sundance Selects (www.sundanceselects.com) to be distributed in North America.

    Production Information:

    Mobra Films

    5 Intrarea Serdarului
    Bucharest, Romania

    Phone/ Fax: +40 21 6664827

    www.mobrafilms.ro

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    Why Not Productions

    13 rue Victor Cousin

    Paris V, France

    www.whynotproductions.fr

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    Wild Bunch - Paris

    99 rue de la Verrerie

    75004 Paris - France

    Phone: +33 1 53 01 50 20

    Fax: +33 1 53 01 50 49

    www.wildbunch.biz

    Vincent Maraval - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Phone: +33 1 53 01 50 21

    Les Films du Fleuve

    13 Quai de Gaulle

    4020 Liège, Belgique
    Phone: +32 4 349 56 90
    Fax : +32 4 349 56 96

    www.lesfilmsdufleuve.be
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    France 3 Cinema

    Phone: +33 890710303015

    www.france3.fr

    Mandragora Movies

    8, A.P. Cehov street

    Sector 1, Bucuresti, Romania

    Phone: +40.31.620.3503

    Fax: +40.21.315.1000

    www.mandragoramovies.ro (under construction)

    Gilda Conon, Managing Director: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Credits

    Director: Cristian Mungiu

    Script: Cristian Mungiu

    Inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran

    DOP:Oleg Mutu
    Production design : Călin Papură, Mihaela Poenaru
    Editor: Mircea Olteanu
    Sound department: Cristian Tarnoveţchi, Andi Arsenie

    Cast : Cristina Flutur

    Cosmina Stratan

    Valeriu Andriuţă

    Dana Tapalagă

    Cătălina Harabagiu

    Gina Tandura

    Vica Agache

    Dionisie Vitcu

    Luminiţa Gheorghiu

    Alina Berzunţeanu