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Maria (2003)

Maria (2003)

Drama
Release Date: 2003, November 21
Directors: Călin Peter Netzer
Countries: Germany, France, Romania
Production: Artis Film
Cast: Ana Ularu, Horațiu Mălăele, Rona Hartner, Florin Zamfirescu, Luminița Gheorghiu, Florin Călinescu, Diana Dumbravă, Şerban Ionescu

Overview:

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.