Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari

Directed by Ivana Mladenović

Produced by Hi Film Productions, Film House Baš Čelik

2018119 min5.8 / 10

A tender but precarious romance between two outsiders in a marginalized Bucharest neighborhood, where love blooms amid danger, poverty, and the threat of systemic entrapment.

Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.

Questions people ask

  • Is Soldiers. Story from Ferentari sad? Yes. More sad than 75% of films.

  • Is Soldiers. Story from Ferentari scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.

  • Is Soldiers. Story from Ferentari easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does Soldiers. Story from Ferentari end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Soldiers. Story from Ferentari violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

26/ 100

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Rarity75

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Surprise7

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Love15

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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