Scarred Hearts

Name: Scarred Hearts
Genre: Biography, Period Piece, Drama
Released: 2016
Duration: 141 min
Cast: Serban Pavlu, Alexandru Dabija, Lucian Teodor Rus, Ivana Mladenovic, Ilinca Harnut

Radu Jude20162h 21mBiography, Period Piece, Drama

Why we chose it

Radu Jude adapts a novel by Max Blecher, who died at 28, and this time he shoots on 35mm with a camera that stays still. At a Black Sea sanatorium in 1937, young bodies wither in plaster corsets, but the patients still drink, make love and dance while fascism rises outside the window.

Synopsis

Emanuel is a young man with tuberculosis of the spine, and at a Romanian sanatorium before the war he is put in plaster from his neck to his hips. For months he won’t get up from the wheeled stretcher he lies on. All around him the other patients eat, drink, quarrel and fall in love, though their bodies keep failing them, and soon Emanuel’s own heart starts beating faster.