Scarred Hearts

Drama/Book adaptation, Germany/Romania 2016

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Romania 1937. Emanuel, in his early 20s, suffers from bone tuberculosis and lives in a sanatorium on the Black Sea. He spends his time in a plaster bed and is pushed around by the staff. Surrounded by a medical apparatus with sometimes grotesque-looking equipment and enclosed in a body that is slowly decaying, Emanuel, like his mostly young fellow patients, is filled with an exuberant hunger for life. Physically immobilized, but all the more mentally agile, they engage in wide-awake intellectual and political discourse. He is less and less drawn to the outside world in Romania, where the country is increasingly developing into an ultranationalist society. And while the Second World War looms on the horizon, Emanuel falls in love.
136 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
Romanian
Subtitles:
German

Awards

Filmfest Hamburg 2016 Hamburg Producer Award
69° Festival del film Locarno Special Jury Prize

More information

Director:

Radu Jude

Writer:

Radu Jude

Template:

Max Blecher (Biographical Novel)

Sound Design:

Dana Bunescu

Producer:

Ada Solomon

Cast:

Șerban Pavlu (Dr. Ceafalan)

Alexandru Bogdan (Pacient)

Ilinca Harnut (Isa)

Gabriel Spahiu (Zed)

Ivana Mladenović (Solange)

Lucian Teodor Rus (Emanuel)

Alexandru Dabija (Mr. Lazăr B.)

Dana Voicu (Mrs. Bella B.)

Original title:

Inimi cicatrizate

Original language:

GermanRomanian

Format:

4:3 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

Romanian

Subtitles:

German