Aferim!, Aferim!

Radu Jude

Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, 2015, Black and white, 108’

In sumptuous black-and-white, this farcical and picaresque western tackles one of the most shameful episodes in the country’s history: the enslavement of the Roma in the Romanian countryside in the 19th century.

Technical sheet

  • Subtitles:
    English, French
  • Script:
    Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
  • Photography:
    Marius Panduru
  • Editing:
    Éva Haraszin
  • Sound:
    Dana Bunescu
  • Production:
    Ada Solomon (HiFilm Productions), Ioana Draghici (HiFilm Productions)
  • Contact:
    Megane Mahieu (Eurozoom)

Filmography

  • Radu Jude

    • The Tube with a Hat, 2006
    • In the Morning, 2007
    • Alexandra, 2007
    • The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009
    • A Film for Friends, 2011
    • Everybody in Our Family, 2012
    • Shadow of a Cloud, 2013
    • It Can Pass through the Wall, 2014
    • Aferim!, 2015
    • Scarred Hearts, 2016
    • The Dead Nation, 2017
    • I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2018
    • The Marshal’s Two Executions, 2018
    • Uppercase Print, 2020
    • The Exit of the Trains, 2020
    • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, 2021
    • Caricaturana, 2021
    • Plastic Semiotic, 2021
    • The Potemkinists, 2022
    • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, 2023
    • Eight Postcards from Utopia, 2024
    • Sleep #2, 2024
    • Kontinental '25, 2025