Produced by Anca Puiu (Mandragora) in coproduction with Thomas Ordonneau (Shellac) and Zeyno Film
The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to «settle» his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment.
From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties and engage onto a path of transformation from victim to aggressor.
Based on a classic of Romanian Jewish literature by Ion Luca Caragiale, Holy Week is a suspenseful and tense exploration of the subtle mechanisms of violence.
Produced by Anca Puiu (Mandragora) in coproduction with Thomas Ordonneau (Shellac) and Zeyno Film
The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to «settle» his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment.
From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties and engage onto a path of transformation from victim to aggressor.
Based on a classic of Romanian Jewish literature by Ion Luca Caragiale, Holy Week is a suspenseful and tense exploration of the subtle mechanisms of violence.
