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