
The Phantom Father
2012-03-02 · 90 min · ★ 6.5
American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.
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- Directors
- Lucian Georgescu
- Production companies
- Generic Audiovizual (GAV)
- Countries
- Romania
- Status
- Released
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Marcel IureșRobert Traum
Barry GiffordJack
Mihaela SîrbuTania
Mihai ConstantinMayor Codrescu
Mimi BrănescuAlex
Victor RebengiucUncle Petre
Mariana MihuțAunt Florica
Iosif Pastinasmall Robert
Nicodim UngureanuHotel Receptionist
Vitalie BantasVitali
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