Occident (film)

Occident
Directed by	Cristian Mungiu
Written by	Cristian Mungiu
Starring	Alexandru Papadopol and Anca-Ioana Androne
Music by	Petru Mărgineanu and Ioan Gyuri Pascu
Cinematography	Vivi Drăgan Vasile
Editing by	Niţă Chivulescu
Release date(s)	2002
Running time	105 min.
Country	Romania
Language	Romanian

Occident is a Romanian film released in 2002, and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It stars Alexandru Papadopol as a 29-year old man named Luci and Anca Androne as his wife Sorina. The film is a tragicomedy about young people who move to the West when they can not make ends meet in Romania.

Cast

• Alexandru Papadopol as Luci
• Anca-Ioana Androne as Sorina
• Samuel Tastet as Jérôme
• Tania Popa as Mihaela
• Coca Bloos as Mihaela's mother
• Julieta Strîmbeanu as Granny
• Eugenia Bosânceanu as Aunt Leana
• Ioan Gyuri Pascu as Gică
• Valeriu Andriuţă as Nae
• Nicolongo as Luigi
• Dorel Vişan as The cop
• Gabriel Spahiu as The mute Spaniard
• Michael Beck as The Dutchman
• Jérôme Bounkazi as The Italian
• Tora Vasilescu as The school-mistress

with

• Doru Ana
• Ion Chelaru
• Mihai Danu
• Constantin Ghenescu

External links

• Occident at the Internet Movie Database
• Description of film