The Tube with a Hat
Four Shorts from Radu Jude
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23m
Directed by Radu Jude • 2006 • Romania
Radu Jude’s debut short announced a major filmmaking talent to the world back in 2006, winning at Sundance and Cottbus. A father and son haul a battered old TV set through mud and rain to the nearest town, hoping to get it fixed in time for a Bruce Lee film screening that evening. Of a piece with the handheld social realism of the Romanian New Wave, this early film captures a side of Jude that is not often seen elsewhere: a tenderness and an open-minded approach to rural poverty and familial bonds.
THE TUBE WITH A HAT • LAMPA CU CĂCIULĂ
Directed by Radu Jude
Written by Florin Lăzărescu
Cinematography by Marius Panduru
Starring: Marian Bratu, Gabriel Spahiu
In Romanian with English subtitles
Winner of Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006
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The Marshal’s Two Executions
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