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The City Seen from Above

1975 · 90 min

A quiet, earnest study of a woman trying to do good inside a stubborn bureaucracy, watched with patience and a growing sense of weight.

Overview
Maria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • power
  • work
  • morality
  • class
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Lucian Bratu
Written by
Marcel Păruș, Dumitru Solomon
Starring
Margareta Pogonat, Ilarion Ciobanu, George Constantin, Petre Gheorghiu, Zephi Alșec, Corneliu Revent, Corado Negreanu, Ica Matache
Runtime
90 min
Country
Romania
Languages
Romanian

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