I write this review after this movie haunted me for a couple of months to do so, and I mean it in the literal way!

The movie tells an easy story of terror during Communist Romania, where a system disposes of a victim, but it tells is from the very personal point of view of the cell in which the relationship between the victim and the torturer takes place.

I did stop multiple times to tell myself that this story cannot be true, and every time I found evidence that up to half a million people went part of the ways told by the movie.

It is incredible to see the mind-less, heart-less and absurd system of torture put on film, as it is depicted by very realistic characters, with a focus on achieving other minor motives, but keeping life going.

A must see film, with the warning that it won't be pretty, but such life was! And we hope not to make it again.

Great production, yet hard to swallow - even for a Romanian. Reminds me of Mungiu's "4 luni, 3 saptamani, si 2 zile". Yes, the communism's atrocities need to be aknowledged so they don't get swallowed by history. But geez, will Romanian film producers ever make thoughtful, yet merrier movies?!? Take lessons from your Hungarian neighbours.