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Merriment Ward

1964 · 133 min

A slow, talky ensemble comedy that mixes gentle satire with earnest social observation, feeling like a window into a bygone working-class world.

Overview
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • family
  • politics
  • work
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Manole Marcus
Written by
Teodor Mazilu, Ioan Grigorescu
Starring
Toma Caragiu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Constantin Stoica, Constantin Dinulescu, Olga Tudorache, Ion Besoiu, Valentin Valentineanu, Jean Lorin Florescu
Runtime
133 min
Country
Romania
Languages
Romanian

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