The East End Film Festival will host the UK premiere of Somewhere in Palilula, Silviu Purcărete's debut feature - a screening not to be missed!
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will host the international premiere on 3 July 2012: "Set in 1960s Romania, this original, artistically stylized movie is a successful allegory of the collapse of the communist regime. In his late film debut, renowned theater director Silviu Purcărete invites viewers into a world full of bizarre characters, surreal spectacles, and Kafkaesque situations".
Silviu Purcărete is well-known in the UK especially through his theatre work. After the triumph of Faust at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2009, director Silviu Purcărete will return in August with the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu and the world premiere of his version of Gulliver's Travels.
About the film
Sent to work in a small town that can't be located on the map, a doctor encounters a world in which all the patients are healthy and the local population live in a constant state of drunkenness, feasting and orgy. Laden with stunning visuals and dark humour, the debut of revered theatre director Silviu Purcarete is a magical realist wonder comparable to The Hourglass Sanatorium and Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, while still completely in a world of its own.
