Scarred Hearts

“Alternately funny, raunchy and sad, Scarred Hearts is an intimate look at one writer making the best of awful conditions.” 
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Synopsis

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early 20ies, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed.

Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest. He makes friends and engages in conversations, political for the most part. He reads, he writes, he smokes and drinks, interacts with doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers. He observes how healing seems to be happening transiently, following mysterious laws: some patients get better, some worse, others die. He even has a romantic relationship, while outside Romania doesn‘t have much to offer him, turning more and more into an extreme right-wing society…

Awards

  • 69th Locarno Int’l Film Festival : Silver Leopard / Special prize of the jury
  • 31st Mar del Plata Int’l Film Festival: Silver Astor / Best director

Director

Filmography

Cast

Lucian Teodor Rus, Ivana Mladenovic, Ilinca Harnut, Bogdan Cotlet, Marian Olteanu, Alexandru Dabija, Serban Pavlu, Gabriel Spahiu

Crew

Script: Radu Jude
Cinematography: Marius Panduru
Editing: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Sound design: Dana Bunescu
Producers: Ada Solomon
Co-producers: Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade
Associate producers: Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal-Zade
Production: Hi Film Productions (RO)
Co-production: Komplizen Film GmbH (DE)
In association with: Bord Cadre films (CH)

Technical Data

Format: colour / stereo, 5.1
Runtime: 141′
Released: 2016
Language: Romanian, German
Subtitles: English, German
Original Title: Inimi Cicatrizate