Scarred Hearts + Uppercase Print

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a body cast on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest. He reads, he writes, he smokes and drinks, interacts with doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers. He observes how healing seems to happen transiently, following mysterious laws: some patients get better, some worse, others die. He even has a romantic relationship, while Romania outside the sanatorium doesn‘t have much to offer him, turning more and more into an extreme right-wing society...

In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Boto?ani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. The culprit was Mugur C?linescu, a teenager who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina C?rbunariu created a documentary play based on this material. 

directed by: Radu Jude
starring: Lucian Teodor Rus; Ivana Mladenovic; S?erban Pavlu / S?erban Lazarovici; Bogdan Zamfir; Ioana Iacob; S?erban Pavlu 
2016, 2020 / 309 min (combined) / 1.85:1, 1.33:1 / Romanian, German DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• Scarred Hearts trailer
• Uppercase Print trailer
• Bonus short films:
  • Plastic Semiotic (2021)
  • The Potemkinists (2022)
• English subtitles