Roxanne

Locarno 2013
Official Selection
Jameson Dublin International
Film Festival 2014

Roxanne

A Film by Vali Hotea

2013 - Romania/Hungary - Drama - DCP - 1.85 - 98 min.

with Șerban Pavlu , Diana Dumbravă & Mihai Călin

Language: Romanian
Produced by Ada Solomon & Ioana Draghici

Twenty years after the Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy in his late 30s, finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he might be the father of a son he didn’t know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi gets caught up in a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the lives of the ones close to him.

Locarno 2013
Official Selection
Jameson Dublin International
Film Festival 2014

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