27/01/2012

Peter Calin Netzer's third feature The Child's Position, a psychological drama about a mother and her "almost pathological" relationship with her son, will start shooting at the end of February. The shoot is expected to take five weeks in Bucharest and around the capital.

The script is written by Netzer (pictured) together with screenwriter-director Razvan Radulescu, one of the most important screenwriters of the so-called Romanian New Wave. He is responsible for The Death of Mr Lazarescu [+see also:
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interview: Dragos Vîlcu
interview: Radu Muntean
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interview: Melissa de Raaf and Razvan …
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interview: Constantin Popescu
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interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Oleg Mutu
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interview: Radu Muntean
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The Child's Position is the first feature produced by Parada Film, better known as a local distributor. The budget amounts to €700,000. The project received a grant of €250,000 from the Romanian Film Center in 2011 and it is one of the very few local films produced with no help from foreign co-producers. The film is not expected to be domestically released before the beginning of 2013, Netzer told Cineuropa.

The director's previous two films are Maria, released in 2003, which won an acting award in Locarno, and Medal of Honor [+see also:
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