Medalia de onoare

2009
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

898

YOUR RATING

Comedy Drama

Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

898

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 15 wins & 8 nominations

Goofs
On his bus ride from the Ministry of Defence, Ion passes the Romanian capitol building, Casa Poporului (the "House of the People"). In 1995, when the story takes place, the building was still unfinished and would be surrounded by construction cranes.

Soundtracks
Horage
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Written by Philip Glass

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Review

Featured review

10/10

Romanian Evolution

I saw this film on the Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2009 a week ago. The theater was full. We are in the post communist era during the 90s. The hero is an old man that his wife doesn't speak to him for the past years and his son is in Canada and doesn't want to talk to him. The government sends him a letter letting him know that he has been awarded with a medal for his valor during world war II. Its really a very humane movie. Very kind, romantic. It keeps you going for the whole time and you really want to see why his wife is not talking to him, why his son is avoiding to talk to him on the phone and how he is trying to recover the lost time. And the ending is very very good. Lets say that it left me with a smile on my face. Romanian cinema is at its best. A really good, honest and bittersweet cinema. Movies like this one, The Paper will be Blue and The Death of Mr Lazarescu proves that we will have a bright "cinematic future".