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MALMKROG a film by Cristi Puiu - Trailer

World Premiere opening the new competition Encounters at the 70th Berlinale – Best Director Award

Malmkrog
A film by Cristi Puiu

With Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Agathe Bosch, Diana Sakalauskaité, Marina Palii, Ugo Broussot, István Téglás

Nikolai, a large landowner, a man of the world, places his country estate at the disposal of some friends, by organizing a sojourn at the spacious manor house.

For the guests, among which we find a politician, a young countess, a Russian General and his wife, time passes at the manor house with rich meals, society games and by engaging in a long discussion about death and the Antichrist, progress and morality.

As the discussion gradually takes shape and the various topics are broached, each of them lays out his vision of the world, history, and religion.

The hours pass, the discussion becomes more heated, the topics become more and more serious, and differences of culture and viewpoints grow increasingly apparent.

Whether for good reason or not, the guests end up exacerbating each other’s anxieties to the point that their conversation begins to be sorely strained.

Finally, falling into the snare of their own discourse and believing that history never repeats itself, none of them is able to realize the extent of the event in which they have unwittingly come to be trapped.

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200 min – French, Hungarian, German, Russian – DCP
Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia – 2020

World Premiere opening the new competition Encounters at the 70th Berlinale – Best Director Award

Malmkrog
A film by Cristi Puiu

With Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Agathe Bosch, Diana Sakalauskaité, Marina Palii, Ugo Broussot, István Téglás

Nikolai, a large landowner, a man of the world, places his country estate at the disposal of some friends, by organizing a sojourn at the spacious manor house.

For the guests, among which we find a politician, a young countess, a Russian General and his wife, time passes at the manor house with rich meals, society games and by engaging in a long discussion about death and the Antichrist, progress and morality.

As the discussion gradually takes shape and the various topics are broached, each of them lays out his vision of the world, history, and religion.

The hours pass, the discussion becomes more heated, the topics become more and more serious, and differences of culture and viewpoints grow increasingly apparent.

Whether for good reason or not, the guests end up exacerbating each other’s anxieties to the point that their conversation begins to be sorely strained.

Finally, falling into the snare of their own discourse and believing that history never repeats itself, none of them is able to realize the extent of the event in which they have unwittingly come to be trapped.

Watch this film in the Shellac screening room (professionals only)
Ask for the screener

Videos

MALMKROG a film by Cristi Puiu - Trailer

MALMKROG by Cristi Puiu - extract 1

MALMKROG by Cristi Puiu - extract 2

Stills
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Documents

Presskit
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Icône image Portrait of Cristi Puiu (c) Ileana Puiu Icône image Download (2.33 Mo)