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Bucharest Identity Card

1982 · 88 min Comedy
7.5 / 10 · TMDB

A young agricultural engineer, fresh out of university, makes a firm decision against returning to her provincial hometown. Her dream is to stay in the capital, but the coveted Bucharest identity card stands in her way. In desperation, she hatches a radical plan: to purchase a husband who possesses the necessary city registration. Her quest leads to unexpected encounters, absurd situations, and a cascade of comic misunderstandings, where naive ambition clashes with urban cunning, and calculation meets sheer farce.

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Original Title Buletin de București
Year 1982
Country Romania
Genre Comedy
Director Virgil Calotescu
Runtime 88 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.5/10 (14 votes)

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The 1982 film 'Buletin de București' is a sharp satire of bureaucracy, where a person's fate hinges on a line in an ID document. Director Virgil Călotescu expertly blends situational comedy with social commentary, never losing the film's sparkling wit or its underlying melancholy.

What lingers after the final frame is not just the laughter, but a poignant glimpse into a specific time and place, where universal dreams of belonging and love are tested by absurd, systemic obstacles. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Virgil Calotescu

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The hustle of capital city markets, cramped communal apartments, and the stark officiousness of state institutions amidst pervasive human cunning.

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