THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
by Radu Jude
synopsis
Eighteen-year-old Delia Fratila comes from a poor family in a small Romanian town. She has won an expensive car in a promotional competition by mailing in three labels from juice bottles. To prove that the beverage company really is handing over the prize, a video is to be shot showing Delia and the car. Delia and her parents make the long trip to Bucharest for the video shoot, but what seemed at first to be a lucky event becomes for Delia an extreme and emotionally painful situation, in which she has to rethink and question her relationships with her family.
international title: | The Happiest Girl in the World |
original title: | Cea mai fericită fată din lume |
country: | Romania, Netherlands |
sales agent: | Films Boutique |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Radu Jude |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | RO 08/05/2009, NL 16/07/2009, FR 16/12/2009, AT 18/03/2011 |
screenplay: | Radu Jude, Augustina Stanciu |
cast: | Andreea Bosneag, Violeta Popa, Vasile Muraru |
cinematography by: | Marius Panduru |
film editing: | Cătălin Cristuțiu |
producer: | Ada Solomon |
production: | Hi Film Productions, Circe Films |
backing: | Romanian Film Fund, Romanian National Television, Media Planning Group, Hubert Bals Fund, NHK (JP), MEDIA Programme |
distributor: | Hi Film, Filmmuseum Distributie, Pyramide Distribution, Waystone Film |