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Synopsis: In grim, dull Vaslui, Cristi is a young police officer, conscientious, laconic, recently married to Anca, a teacher. He's tailing a kid who smokes pot and may be supplying his friends. Cristi dislikes the assignment: the kid's clearly not a dealer, an arrest would ruin his life, and, Cristi assumes that Romania will soon tolerate marijuana. His superior tells him flatly that the law is the law and to finish the case with a quick arrest. Cristi wants to follow the informant, a youth whose father is a builder. Cristi watches, he smokes, he writes reports, he wants to meet with the prosecutor. Can a cop have a conscience? Is the noun being modified "procedural" or "state"?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Corneliu Porumboiu
Production: IFC Films
  15 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
113 min
£26,692
Website
55 Views


have to obey and enforce. Right?

- I think we're taking it too far.

- We're not.

On the contrary,

we're getting closer.

You don't even know

your duty as a police officer.

- Yes I do.

- I'm telling you that you don't.

Because between this moral law

and the Law, the Constitution,

you choose this moral law of yours.

So, in this moment

you have to decide

if you're going to enforce the law

and be a police officer

or you'll follow this moral law

of yours, and you leave the police.

Do you understand now?

In fact, you no longer know

what you are,

that's the problem.

I'll help you one more time.

Look up "police".

Police -police officer,

member of the police force,

adjective, police (detective)

novel or film

involving criminal happenings

that are to some degree mysterious,

resolved in the end

through the ingenuity

of a police officer or detective.

About police states or regimes

which are supported by the police

and which exercise control

through repressive methods...

Ridiculous!

All states depend on the police...

From German, polizist.

It's from Greek, polis - city...

Those who run the city.

Boss?

I'll make the sting operation,

then Cristi will have a clean

conscience and we'll close the case.

You really haven't

understood a thing.

So, you have time to think until 4.

The prosecutor will also be here.

Nelu, you come at 4 too.

Right.

That's all.

Sir!

This stays with me!

Cristi, watch the net.

You've touch the net.

No, no.

- The wind blew it.

- I didn't see it.

- I was watching the ball.

- Forget it...

Here's kindergarten 14.

This is where the kids smoke.

Behind the kindergarten

is Bacovia St,

to the right the bakery. We have

a fence, access is blocked off.

Facing the nursery

is a high chain-link fence,

and an access right

in front of the kindergarten.

An alley goes from here

into the kindergarten yard

and it intersects with another alley

which opens into Berzelor St.

This building belongs

to school no. 2,

this is another building,

this is another.

Access is blocked here,

access is blocked here.

There's also an opening here

that leads to Stefan cel Mare St.

The main entrance

to the kindergarten is here

and there's also

a service door on this side.

This is what I propose:

that I wait inside with Nelu,

here there'll be a team

with witnesses.

Witnesses can be taken

from the building site nearby.

A team can wait here at the access

to Stefan cel Mare St,

yourself and the Prosecutor can be

in the alley that leads to Berzelor.

The camera can be in this building,

somewhere on the first floor.

The visibility is very good

for taking pictures.

They're double-glazed, they won't see it.

The cameraman will give the signal,

and I'll confirm it.

Then the teams go in,

from here,

here and here,

while myself and Nelu come out

from here. They've nowhere to go...

OK.

Nelu, tell the team on Bacovia

to get two witnesses.

Understood.

They're only kids,

so go easy on them.

Just communicate with each other

and watch out for signals.

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Corneliu Porumboiu

Corneliu Porumboiu (Romanian pronunciation: [korˈnelju porumˈboju]; born 14 September 1975) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Caméra d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of football referee Adrian Porumboiu. His 2015 film The Treasure was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix Un Certain Talent prize. more…

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