The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Artista, dolarii si ardelenii
The ‘70s were an extremely beneficial period for Romanian cinema. At that time a generation of young film makers appeared. They brought something new to a pretty obsolete cinema that used Soviet film classics as its models. At the beginning of the decade, these young people also benefited from some relaxation on a political level.
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians is the second part of a trilogy that began with The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (1977) by Dan Pita, who also directed the third part – The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (1980).
The trilogy combined the iconography specific to the American Western with topics imposed by the domestic film industry: duty to one’s native country, calming down inter-ethnic conflicts, the bad influence of religious beliefs. The film is about two brothers who go to America to persuade another brother who lives there to come back to Romania.
Film details
- Country of production
- Romania
- Year
- 1979
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 97"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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