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Chirița în Iași

1988 · 77 min

A frothy, theatrical farce of scheming and mistaken identities, played broad and brisk, easy to enjoy without much thought.

Directed by
Mircea Drăgan
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Draga Olteanu Matei, Dem Rădulescu, Ileana Stana Ionescu
Overview
Pretentious Chirita weaves big matrimonial plans, because oh, oh what a pain / to have unmarried girls!. Dissatisfied with the boyars who aspire to the hand of her daughters, she descends in Iasi with the opportunity to find them better suitors. Entanglements, chases, travesties, fainting, tricks, twirls, romances, serenades, a king of triviality given as humor and irony.

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Directed by
Mircea Drăgan
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Draga Olteanu Matei, Dem Rădulescu, Ileana Stana Ionescu
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • family
  • love
  • identity
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism5
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
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Directed by
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Starring
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Runtime
77 min
Country
Romania
Languages
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