Look Ahead with Anger

Look Ahead with Anger

1993 · 81 min · ★ 5.6 · Drama

After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.

Directed by Nicolae Mărgineanu · Written by Petre Sălcudeanu

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