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Happy Funerals

2013 · 90 min Comedy
8.4 / 10 · TMDB

Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian - are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at "The Happy Immigrant", a joint kept by a Turk. The fauna of this venue is made up out of the Babel Tower's survivors: immigrants who had chosen Romania, as a country where everything is possible. The predictions included... A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. The three professional boozers stop from running just in front of a fortune teller expert in a niche field: death prediction. The rest is entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. They don't want to die when it was written for them. Or just predicted...

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📋 Film Details

Original Title Funeralii fericite
Year 2013
Country Romania
Genre Comedy
Director Horațiu Mălăele
Runtime 90 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.4/10 (5 votes)

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The film walks a tightrope between dark comedy and existential drama, exploring fate through an alcoholic haze. The director skillfully blends absurd situations with profound questions about life's meaning and inevitability.

What lingers after the credits is the realization that these characters' drunken fatalism becomes a peculiar race against time. The final act delivers unexpected catharsis, leaving viewers with a bittersweet aftertaste about confronting mortality to truly embrace living — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Horațiu Mălăele

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Steamy bar windows, clinking glasses, polyglot murmur, and the ghostly glow of a streetlamp near the fortune teller's tent.

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