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The top prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival, Calin Peter Netzer’s sharply crafted Child’s Pose pivots on a riveting performance by Luminita Gheorghiu (Best Supporting Actress, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Los Angeles Film Critics) as a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European bourgeoisie twists into a brilliantly ambiguous study of obsessive motherly love. Savagely witty and utterly engrossing, Child’s Pose is also the Official Romanian Entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.
Original Release
03/08/2013
US Release
02/19/2014
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Luminita Gheorghiu | Cornelia Keneres / Cornelia Kerenes - Mother |
Bogdan Dumitrache | Barbu / Barbu - Son |
Natasa Raab | Olga Cerchez |
Ilinca Goia | Carmen |
Florin Zamfirescu | Domnul Aurelian Fagarasanu / Aurelian Făgărașanu |
Vlad Ivanov | Dinu Laurentiu / Dinu Laurențiu |
Mimi Branescu | Policeman / agent Pricop |
Cerasela Iosifescu | |
Adrian Titieni | Child's father / Traian Angheliu |
Tania Popa | Luminița Angheliu |
Directors
Writers
Calin Peter Netzer, Razvan Radulescu
Cast
Name | Character |
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Luminita Gheorghiu | Cornelia Keneres / Cornelia Kerenes - Mother |
Bogdan Dumitrache | Barbu / Barbu - Son |
Natasa Raab | Olga Cerchez |
Ilinca Goia | Carmen |
Florin Zamfirescu | Domnul Aurelian Fagarasanu / Aurelian Făgărașanu |
Vlad Ivanov | Dinu Laurentiu / Dinu Laurențiu |
Mimi Branescu | Policeman / agent Pricop |
Cerasela Iosifescu | |
Adrian Titieni | Child's father / Traian Angheliu |
Tania Popa | Luminița Angheliu |
Leontina Vaduva | Leontina Vaduva, the Soprano |
Ion Grosu | |
Oxana Moravec | |
Mihai Dorobantu | |
Nicolae Scarlat | |
Silvia Dogaru | |
Ionut Hotea | |
Ana Maria Samson | |
Alexandru Georgescu | |
Gelu Coleag | (as Gelu Coleag) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Calin Peter Netzer | Producer |
Oana Giurgiu | Producer |
Valentino Rudolf | Producer |
Ada Solomon | Producer |