Crossroads Catalogue 2009

ROMANIAAdalbert’s DreamCreditsProduced by: Green Film & Libra FilmDirector: Gabriel AchimScriptwriter: Gabriel Achim & Cosmin ManolacheBudget: 750.000 EurosSecured Financing: 20%Achim GabrielDirectorContactName of Company: Green FilmAddress: 11 Plantelor St, ap 1, 023971,Bucharest 2, RomaniaT: +40 317123305M: +40729550304gabriel@greenfilm.ro www.greenfilm.roSelected FilmographyHow Do You Do? (short), 2009Segment “Short Back and Sides”A Man Follows a Woman (med), 2009Bric Brac (short), 2008Saga (short), 2008SynopsisAdalbert’s Dream is a black comedy based on a real story, which happened in a Romanian communist factoryin the 80’s. A work accident is re-enacted on camera, but the re-enacting becomes a new accident:the worker playing the victim also gets his hand cut.Director’s StatementAdalbert’s Dream is a perfect opportunity to resort to dark humor and to question human weakness, whichcomes easier to the fore during totalitarian regimes. But despite appearances, Adalbert’s Dream is not apolitical film. Politics is the mere background that helps the film focus on its main “subject”: humanity,which emerges from forceful dialogues and events of an unpredictable cynicism.In order to make sure that these private truths become part of a universal truth, I melted them intometaphor, which in my case is a dream. A surreal dream, presented as the film “Adalbert’s Dream” to anaudience of workers with no artistic interest. The dream undermines an oppressive and depressive reality(the final years of a ferocious communist regime) and turns in the end in a different metaphor – themetaphor of the lost hand, which is symbolic for an entire era.6