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Director(s):
FROEHLY (VINCENT)
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Producer(s):
ARTE GEIE, MEDIEN KONTOR Movie GMBH
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2013
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
The "Cimitirul Vesel" in Sâpânta, in the North of Romania is an unusual cemetery. As unusual as its name, which translates as: "the cheerful cemetery".
Around the Orthodox Church, dark blue crosses, decorated with a blaze of multi-colored pictures portray happiness. The crosses depict scenes characterizing the deceased - and and not positively in every case. Extramarital relationships, mischief, brawls, accidents, professions and preferences, strokes of fake - the carver, painter and poet of the crosses, Dumitru Pop, decides on the epitaph. Over the decades, the cemetery of Sâpânta has become the memory of the village.