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The Heat

1969 · 85 min

A quiet, wistful drama about young love broken by circumstance and the ache of paths that diverge and rejoin.

Directed by
Șerban Creangă
Genres
Drama
Starring
Vladimir Găitan, Emilia Dobrin, Nicolae Wolcz
Overview
Sergiu, Laura and Smache are three high school graduates who make plans for the future. An idyll is born between Sergiu and Laura, but due to the opposition of the girl's parents and the fact that the young man is recruited, she will marry someone else. After a few years, the paths of the three meet again. Sergiu is on the verge of graduating from college and Laura, now divorced, is a piano teacher.

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Directed by
Șerban Creangă
Genres
Drama
Starring
Vladimir Găitan, Emilia Dobrin, Nicolae Wolcz
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • memory
  • betrayal
Places
  • small town
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
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Directed by
Șerban Creangă
Starring
Vladimir Găitan, Emilia Dobrin, Nicolae Wolcz
Runtime
85 min

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