Another bright star in the shining constellation of the new Romanian Cinema from director Radu Muntean. In SUMMER HOLIDAY a husband and father finds himself caught between family obligations and the temptation of a night out like in the good old days. On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and four year old son in tow, Bogdan Ciocazanu, aka "Boogie," runs into his best friends from high school. They begin to reminisce about their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades. Having certain frustrations about his job, his marriage, his life, Boogie decides to let loose and spend one night of shocking freedom with his friends: drinking, games, flirting and prostitutes. The movie's husband and wife are played by Dragos Bucur, who lit up the screen in the award-winning Romanian films POLICE, ADJECTIVE and THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU; and Anamaria Marinca, star of 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS and FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN.

"The crime genre seduced me because, every time around, it involves you, the viewer; it's like a puzzle in which you are involved and which provokes you to foresee what is to come...Working on this film, I chose to look, in an almost clinical way, at a police procedural and the way in which cops react; I follow Cristi around the same way he follows his suspects around, with the strong belief that cinema is witness to a meaningless world." - writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu. "Confounds expectations..a subversive intellectual exercise, a philosophical jest." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times. "Exquisitely dry... just about flawless.... ranks right up there with 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS" - Phillips, Chicago Tribune.

The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as "the golden age"... Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship. On the occasion of Ceausescu's working visits, countryside mayors ended up hanging fruit in trees to make sure their villages would be noticed, obeying even the strangest orders from the ferocious Party activists.

Charming and magical tale of a Hungarian boy with telekinetic talents who learns the gypsy way of life. © 1988, 1990 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.