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Directed by | Lucian Pintilie |
Produced by | Véronique Cayla Marin Karmitz Constantin Popescu |
Written by | Lucian Pintilie Rasvan Popescu |
Starring | Cecilia Bârbora |
Cinematography | Calin Ghibu |
Editing by | Victorita Nae |
Release date(s) | May 1996 |
Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | Romania |
Language | Romanian |
Too Late (Romanian: Prea târziu) is a 1996 Romanian drama film directed by Lucian Pintilie. It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Dumitri Costa, a young trainee prosecutor is entrusted with the investigation about the suspicious death of a Jiu Valley coal miner in today Romania. Accident or murder? Costa is being helped during this investigation by Alina, a good-looking young topographer engineer; it is love at first sight between them both. Two other miners are killed in a long closed down gallery. The investigation relentlessly led by Costa soon begins to bother the local authorities. The mine management dread unrest among the miners who lives under the threat of the closing down of mining development. The officials strive to hush the matter up. Costa and Alina receive threats over the phone.
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