Director Marian Krishan’s tendency to give his films foreign-sounding titles is interesting. Debut feature film titled Morgen (2010), then in 2012 rocker (although this word has long been accepted as such in the Romanian language) and in 2020¸ Berliner. However, that doesn’t mean that Marian Krishan’s track record doesn’t have films with bad titles. Megatron since 2008, horizon from 2015 or a mini-series quiet valley made for HBO. So if those film critics who were quick to say it Warboy it would be a Romanian western, like those who rushed to contradict them, they would have looked more closely at the title of the director’s last film – Warboy– perhaps he would have understood the true intentions of the film.

Warboy it is built according to the classic scheme of travel. This is what is called a road movie Its action takes place in the fall of 1944, mostly after the evening of August 23, somewhere in the Apuseni mountains. Romanian, English, German and Russian are spoken in the film. And multilingualism is by no means a fad, Warboy actually follows not the actions at the front, the battles are going somewhere far away, but the formation, growing up, change (Michel Butor would say modification) to a teenager at war. When the present is not very clear, the future is uncertain, people still hope for the best, and it is also not entirely clear who the winners and losers are. When Romania was once between a dog and a wolf.

Niku, the main character of the film (played wonderfully by the teenager Daniel Baelish), has largely taken over the household chores. Father was mobilized to the anti-Soviet front. News about him became less and less. No one knows when or if he will return. For now, however, there are signs that he is still alive. Nick and his mother struggle to make ends meet by selling the trees to a wealthier local and an over-the-top swindler (Ovidiu Crisan). A businessman remains a businessman, therefore he does not pay for the goods in money, but is settled exclusively with corn flour. The boy’s mother (Adina Iftime) somehow accepts fate. This became her motto This is also normal. It seems that she even got used to the absence of her husband. Who already has a kind of replacement (Ion Ruscuț). The woman hardly reacts to the deception, she shows reconciliation with the Germans, who confiscated the boy’s two horses, which he takes care of. And what is his pride. Niku returns them and decides to go to his uncle in Russia. Hence a whole series of adventures, both comical and sad, hence the meeting with the American pilot Earl Cooper (perfectly played by Reginald Ammons, whom I could not even guess that he does not have even a minimal acting game). training ), who will become his companion. Hence the meeting with Russian soldiers, who, as the Great Red Army of Liberation will later do, want to rule over the people’s property by force. They confiscate two of Nick’s horses, sacrifice one to satisfy his hunger, and move on with the other. Eventually, Cooper will go home, leaving Nick with only his jacket. In the end, the teenager forcibly deprives the child of the horse. A mad dash will begin. A clear sign that Nick’s life has changed, and the Americans will not return until 45 years later.

True, as in authentic westerns and Warboy horses at a great price. In the film, we pay special attention to natural landscapes, on which Adrian Pedurezu’s camera may linger for a while. The music composed by Alin Zăbrăuțeanu and Călin Torsan is very beautiful and specific to the genre to which some would like to classify the film. The sound is good, like in American movies. I have not been able to learn the name of the person or persons who deserve all the credit for it.

With a few exceptions, the local population remained kind. Conflicts between them are insignificant. _ Read the entire article and comment on it on Contributors.ro