The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son

Romanian filmmaker Stere Gulea concludes his trilogy of films based on the two renowned volumes of novels by Martin Preda. This final film once again returns to Niculae, a talented writer and the family’s youngest son, who in 1954 faces state repression and censorship from the Communist system.

When Stere Gulea adapted Marin Preda’s renowned 1955 novel Moromeții, he managed to capture an often-overlooked episode of Romanian history: the politically tumultuous and economically unstable times just before and after World War II. His instant classic The Moromete Family (1987) and its successful 2018 sequel The Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time were wildly popular at home and for good reason: the rich, black-and-white films about one peasant family are deeply humane works that showed ordinary Romanians navigating a rapidly changing world.

The closing chapters of The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son, however, differ slightly from what came before. Rather than working with the original novel as source material, Gulea instead modelled this screenplay after Preda’s own biography. Protagonist Niculae Moromete, now standing in as the author himself, is a young and talented writer who finds himself trapped between art and propaganda. While he tries to survive the repressive Communist system, he works on his magnum opus: a novel about the family history of the Morometes as they endure the hardships of the twentieth century.

– Hugo Emmerzael

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