The Snails' Senator

Name: The Snails' Senator
Director: Mircea Daneliuc
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1995-06-02
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Dorel Vișan, Cecilia Bârbora, Clara Vodă, Madeleine Thibeault, Dan Chișu

Directed by Mircea Daneliuc

Drama

Comedy

19951h 48m7.1

Overview

This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned topsy-turvy in their mad quest for the snails a prominent senator has requested for his dinner. The trouble begins when a rather imposing, pompous senator comes to visit a small rural Romanian town for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new hydro-electric dam. After he finishes his speech, the senator is accosted by a Swiss film crew eager to interview him. The senator is inordinately concerned with presenting a positive image of Romania to the world at large and so when he learns that he and the journalists are to stay at the same villa, does everything he came to make sure that they see nothing scandalous.