The Stone Cross
Crucea de piatră
Release: 1994-03-18
·Runtime: 96m
·★ 7.0
Comedy
Drama
Andrei Blaier's film catches the last days of The Stone Cross a low class brothels area that became some kind of an institution in the landscape of Bucharest before the Communist period, doomed to destruction under the new rules of proletarian morals that the Communists were trying to impose. The idea could be the start of a great film, with the prostitution being seen not so much from its destructive and exploitation perspective, but rather as a form of freedom in a time when the whole society was falling under the rule of propaganda, hypocrisy, and repression. In a world due to fall under tyranny for the coming decades prostitution becomes a metaphor of the old more free way of life.
Production Countries
Romania
Production Companies
Studioul de Creatie "Profilm"
Cast
Florina Cercel
as Matroana bordelului
Corina Dănilă
as Ileana
Manuela Hărăbor
as Ilonka Sabo
Sanda Toma
Coca Bloos
as "Foamea Neagră"
Carmen Tănase
as Membra a celulei de partid
Carmen Trocan
Luminița Erga
as Verbina
Ștefan Sileanu
as Comisar
Ruxandra Sireteanu
Victoria Cociaș
Gheorghe Dinică
as Mache Puzderie
Ilarion Ciobanu
as Fane
Dorina Lazăr
as Nevasta lui Puzderie
Margareta Pogonat
Ernest Maftei
