MORGEN by Marian Crisan

Official selection in competition Locarno 2010 - Special jury Prize

Synopsis

Nelu works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta,a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is where many refugees try to cross to Hungary and then on to Western Europe.For Nelu, the days all resemble each other: fishing at dawn, then work,   and finally home to his wife Florica in their isolated farmhouse. One morning, Nelu "fishes" out something different: a Kurdish man trying   to cross the border. Unable to communicate verbally, the two men somehow understand each other. Nelu takes the stranger to his farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes and food. The man gives      Nelu all his money to help him cross the border tomorrow... Morgen.

 

Title : MORGEN
Original title : MORGEN
Director : Marian Crisan
Genre : Fiction
Length: 100'
Format: 35mm - couleur - 2.35 - Dolby SRD
Country of Origin : Roumanie-France-Hongrie
Producer: Mandragora
Coproducers : Slot Machine - Katapult Film
Director of Photography : Tudor Mircea, RSC
Editor : Tudor Pojoni
Sound Designer : Calin Potcoava
1st assistant Director : Tudor Pojoni
Production Designer: Robert Koteles
Costume Designer : Alexandra Ungureanu

Principal cast :

Andras Hathazi
Yilmaz Yalcin
Elvira Rîmbu