Technically, the movie is done very professionally, good lighting and camera. Sound is OK, does not really adapt to the various scenes. Acting is good, but the characters are simple and react always the same way (e.g. it is not understandable why Stefan does not drop her earlier).
The story begins interesting: a young German engineer comes to Romania. He meets Brindusa and they fall in love. They have to overcome the cultural differences.
The ex-lover of Brindusa and still her (married) boss tries everything from foul mouthing, sabotaging, threatening, bribing, to violence to get them apart. The French investors finally withdraw their offer to invest in his production line.
The German stereotype family arrives to meet the stereotype father of Brindusa.
At the wedding the boss arrives with a gun, shoots himself in the chest and Brindusa returns to him in the hospital instead of going to Germany. Why the hell one may ask? Maybe she is attracted by his macho behavior.
What really made me hate this movie is exactly this. Stereotypes which in the end make life together impossible. Romania is portrayed as a filthy place with violent, uncultivated people everywhere, Germans as overly moral and intrusive.
It left me with the feeling of "I never want to deal with Romanians".
The usage of 4 languages in the film seems stupid to me. Should it show, that everybody manages to speak 3 of the 4 to communicate and has a secret language with others?
The story begins interesting: a young German engineer comes to Romania. He meets Brindusa and they fall in love. They have to overcome the cultural differences.
The ex-lover of Brindusa and still her (married) boss tries everything from foul mouthing, sabotaging, threatening, bribing, to violence to get them apart. The French investors finally withdraw their offer to invest in his production line.
The German stereotype family arrives to meet the stereotype father of Brindusa.
At the wedding the boss arrives with a gun, shoots himself in the chest and Brindusa returns to him in the hospital instead of going to Germany. Why the hell one may ask? Maybe she is attracted by his macho behavior.
What really made me hate this movie is exactly this. Stereotypes which in the end make life together impossible. Romania is portrayed as a filthy place with violent, uncultivated people everywhere, Germans as overly moral and intrusive.
It left me with the feeling of "I never want to deal with Romanians".
The usage of 4 languages in the film seems stupid to me. Should it show, that everybody manages to speak 3 of the 4 to communicate and has a secret language with others?