''Silent Wedding'' () is a 2008

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

comedy-drama Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, il ...

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

about a young couple who was about to celebrate their marriage in 1953, but they were ordered to desist by the occupying Red Army and Communist authorities because the

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

leader

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

had died the night before. Since they could not openly celebrate, the wedding-goers try to party in silence. It was directed by Horațiu Mălăele.

Cast

* Meda Andreea Victor as Mara * Alexandru Potocean as Iancu *

Valentin Teodosiu Valentin Teodosiu (; born 17 September 1953) is a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1977. He is well known as the voice of channel ProTV since 1995. Teodosiu was born in Bucharest and graduated in 1978 from the I.L. Car ...

as Grigore Aschie * Alexandru Bindea as Gogonea * Tudorel Filimon as Haralamb Vrabie * Nicolae Urs as Mutu * Luminița Gheorghiu as Fira * Ioana Anton as Smaranda *

Dan Condurache Dan Condurache (; born 26 July 1952) is a Romanian film actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1976. Born in Dorohoi, he completed high school in his native city. He then went to Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital ...

as Mardare * Doru Ana as Cârnu *

Șerban Pavlu Șerban Pavlu (; born 29 June 1975) is a Romanian actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1995. He is well known for the successful TV series Umbre broadcast on HBO, his role in the soap opera "Fetele Marinarului" and in the televis ...

as Coriolan * Catrinel Dumitrescu as Iancu's mother * Puiu Dănilă as Ulcior * Tamara Buciuceanu as Grandmother *

Victor Rebengiuc Victor Rebengiuc (; known in full as Victor-George Rebengiuc; born 10 February 1933) is a Romanian film and stage actor, also known as a civil society activist. Since 1957, he has been a member of the Bulandra Theater company, acting in more t ...

as Grandfather * George Mihăiță as Valentin Gogonea * George Chițu as Gogonică

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* 2008 films Films set in 1953 Romanian comedy-drama films 2008 comedy-drama films 2000s Romanian-language films {{Romania-film-stub