Medal of Honor
A Film by Calin Peter Netzer
2009 - Germany/Romania - Drama - 2.35 DCP - 105 min.
with Victor Rebengiuc , Camelia Zorlescu , Mircea Andreescu & Ion Lucian
Language: Romanian
Produced by Ada Solomon , Liviu Marghidan & Karl Baumgartner
One day Ion, a 75-year-old Romanian man, accidentally receives a Medal of Honor for some “heroic” actions back in the WW2, times he barely remembers. The medal forces Ion to reconsider his whole life. Maybe he wasn’t all the time a loser. Maybe his life has a meaning. Maybe he means something to his family.
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