Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2025: A Man in a Loden Coat

Director: Nicolae Margineanu

Screenplay by Nicolae Margineanu, Haralamb Zinca
Director of photography: Gábor Tarko
Music by Cornel Taranu
Cast: Victor Rebengiuc, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Constantin Diplan

Open Archives / Archive Treasures

Introduction: Bogdan Movileanu, Chief Curator, Cinemateca Romana

The everyday life of a jovial uranium engineer is turned upside down by death threats that arrive in crumpled yellow envelopes, mysterious phone calls and cassette tapes containing ghostly messages. As the situation gets increasingly frightening, he is forced to approach the authorities for help. The complex story is an adaptation of a work by popular crime writer Haralamb Zincă, known as the ‘Romanian John Le Carré’. It is a paranoia thriller from Ceaușescu’s Romania in which not even the horror elements evoking shades of David Lynch motifs can outdo the oppressive reality of socialism. The debut film of veteran director Nicolae Margineanu.

Romania National Film Archive ( Arhiva Nationala de Filme – Cinemateca Romana (ANF))

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