Maria (2003)

8.4/10 97 min Drama

Overview

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

Cast

Horațiu Mălăele

Milco

Şerban Ionescu

Ion

Luminița Gheorghiu

Maia

Rona Hartner

Nuti

Florin Călinescu

Supervisor

Florin Zamfirescu

Ahmed

Ana Ularu

Ioana

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