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Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?

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Original title

De ce trag clopotele, Mitica? (Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?)aka

AKA

Carnival Scenes

Year

1981

Running time

119 min.

Country

Romania

Director

Lucian Pintilie

Screenwriter

Lucian Pintilie. Play: Ion Luca Caragiale

Cast

Cinematography

Florin Mihailescu

Producer

Casa de Filme, Casa de Filme

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.

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