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Octav: Directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi. With Marcel Iures, Alessia Tofan, Eric Aradits, Victor Rebengiuc. When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Serge Ioan Celebidachi
- 2017-10-06
May 25, 2016 · When aging Octave (Iures) returns to the Romanian countryside to sell his childhood family home, he faces a personal reckoning of his unresolved adolescence. You can’t go home again, the adage says, and for Octave, a flood of unresolved events resurface, including a stint as a World War II soldier, the traumatic death of his mother and ...
May 24, 2016 · 64-year-old star Iures—a veteran of stage and screen best known to Western audiences for such action fare as “ Mission: Impossible ,” “The Peacemaker” and “Layer Cake”—has been aged two decades to play octogenarian
- The Story: A Lifetime in The Making
- The Crew: Rising Talent and Proven Experience
- The Cast: An Ingénue Among Veterans
- The Studio: A New Vision For Romanian Films
The story of Octave is difficult to pin down. Broadly, it asks questions about nostalgia, aging, and reflecting on one's choices in life, while it more specifically concerns the last stage of life for the film's title character, his dealings with remnants of Communist rule, and his memories of a childhood in 1930s Bucharest. It's both worldly in ho...
Octave was scripted with the idea of giving the film an impressionistic feel, represented by different visual and musical cues as the protagonist is transported to various times and places in his memory. Like most great ideas, they sound good on paper but are difficult to bring to life on screen. Octave has assembled some of European cinema's most ...
Leading the cast of Octaveboth on-camera and on set is Marcel Iures, who calls this point in his career and the role of Octave "not a summation of his experience, but the beginning of a new way." Iures, who was 64 during filming, endured two hours of age make-up each day in order to transform him into the octagenarian Octave. Much like the protagon...
No matter how ambitious your film project, you can't get very far without a professional film studio. Enter: Bucharest Film Studios, the largest and most advanced film studio in Romania. Producing movies since 1955, Bucharest Film Studios acts as the home base for Octave, which includes a beautifully constructed interior of Octave's familial home o...
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