Câmp de maci // Poppy Field
Directed by: Eugen Jebeleanu
Production: Velvet Moraru
Acting: Conrad Mericoffer, Alexandru Potocean, Radouan Leflahi
Romania, 2020, 82 minutes, Romanian, English, French with English and Hebrew subtitles
Festivals and Awards:
Torino Film Festival 2020 – Winner Best Actor Award
Gijón Film Festival 2020 – Winner Best Actor Award
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2020 – Nominee Best First Feature
San Francisco Film Festival 2021
OUTshine Film Festival 2021
Glasgow Film Festival 2021
BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival 2021
In association with the Romania Cultural Institute
Cristi works as a policeman in Bucharest. His lover Hadi is visiting from Paris. Their union is romantic and exciting, but is in complete contradiction to Cristi’s work environment as a policeman and to the reality in a country that is still in the process of recognizing LGBT rights. One day Cristi finds himself trapped in the heart of the struggle from which he has so desperately tried to escape. On the one hand the protesters against LGBT rights and on the other side LGBT people that came to watch a gay movie in the cinema.
“Poppy Field”, an impressive debut film by Eugen Jebeleanu, continues the tradition of Romanian cinema as a fascinating work without assumptions that holds the viewer in high tension. The lead actor Conrad Mericoffer, who plays Cristi, creates a deep portrait of a complex and full of conflicts man, who pays the heavy price of living in a closet in a homophobic and violent environment.
You will not forget this movie for weeks after watching it.
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