The read
It runs a compact 1h 22m.
Synopsis
Set in Bucharest after the fall of Ceaușescu, Pioneers' Palace captures the chaotic essence of the time. Based on the director's own experience, the story follows a group of Romanian teenagers who, driven by the unprecedented freedoms of a free-market economy, open a disco in their high school. Surrounded by entrepreneurial opportunity and almost no limits, the teens visit Bucharest’s first-ever brothel and are exposed to the dark underbelly of an unregulated society when they are faced with potential exposure to AIDS.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Bobby PăunescuWriter
- Bobby PăunescuDirector
Cast
- Alice HalpertValeria Calugareanu
- Raluca EftimieNicoleta
- Stefan BostinaTicket Clerk
- Ioana RucareanuMariana Finti
- Bianca BraicuRoxana Arvinte
- Bobby PaunescuRobert Marinescu
- David LipperKevin
- Nicole AnghelOlivia Marinescu