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Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Competition 2021
© Silviu Ghetie / Micro Film 2021
A video goes viral. It shows a man and a woman having sex while wearing masks. The woman is, nevertheless, identified. Too bad she is a teacher and supposed to be a role model. And this, moreover, in a (post-socialist but ultimately any) society that is about to get lost in a social network discourse of would-be healing squeaky-clean attitudes, pseudo-political knowing-it-all, sanctimonious chauvinism and grotesque conspiracy theories. Everyone has an opinion. The debate turns into a tribunal – about consensual sex, pornography and more.
Always up for innovative cinematic experiments, Radu Jude has crafted from this constellation an intelligent, satirical triptych: with its nonchalantly precise camerawork and manic humour found in the stress of everyday life on Bucharest’s streets, the first part shows us what contemporary cinema at the documentary-fiction interface can look like. The second part is an offbeat series of laconic, static images intended as an encyclopaedia of the symbols of our time. The film’s grand – albeit open-ended – finale is a discussion held at the school in which judgement is passed on our heroine’s right to exist.
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by Radu Jude (Written and Directed by)
with Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu, Alexandru Potocean, Andi Vasluianu Romania / Luxembourg / Croatia / Czechia 2021 Romanian 106' Colour

Part of the Berlinale Summer Special

With

  • Katia Pascariu (Emi)
  • Claudia Ieremia (Headmistress)
  • Olimpia Mălai (Mrs. Lucia)
  • Nicodim Ungureanu (Lt. Gheorghescu)
  • Alexandru Potocean (Marius Buzdrugovici)
  • Andi Vasluianu (Mr. Otopeanu)

Crew

Written and Directed by Radu Jude
Cinematography Marius Panduru
Editing Cătălin Cristuțiu
Music Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjevi
Sound Design Dana Bunescu
Sound Mixing Michel Schillings
Sound Hrvoje Radnic
Production Design Cristian Niculescu
Costumes Cireșica Cuciuc
Make-Up Bianca Boeroiu
Casting Viorica Capdefier
Assistant Director Isabela von Tent
Production Manager Vlad Gliga
Producer Ada Solomon
Executive Producer Carla Fotea
Co-Producers Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef, Jiří Konečný, Ankica Jurić Tilić
Co-Production Paul Thiltges Distributions Luxemburg
endorfilm Prag
Kinorama Zagreb

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Radu Jude

Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1977. After taking a film degree at the city’s Media University, he began working as an assistant director before directing his first short film in 2006. His debut feature The Happiest Girl in the World screened in the Forum and received worldwide attention. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director with Aferim! at the 2015 Berlinale. His films Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains premiered in the Forum. In 2021, he won the Golden Bear with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and was a member of the International Jury of the Berlinale in 2023.

Filmography

2006 Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat); short film 2009 Cea mai fericită fată din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World) 2012 Toată lumea din familia noastra (Everybody in Our Family) 2015 Aferim! 2016 Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts) 2018 Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians) 2020 Tipografic majuscul (Uppercase Print) · Ieşirea trenurilor din gară (The Exit of the Trains); co-director: Adrian Cioflâncă 2021 Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn) 2020 The Potemkinists (Potemkinistii); short film 2023 Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World) 2024 Sleep #2 · Opt Ilustrate din lumea ideală (Eight Postcards from Utopia); co-director: Christian Ferencz-Flatz 2025 Kontinental '25

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025