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Supravietuitorul (2008) is a Romanian,English,French movie. Sergiu Nicolaescu has directed this movie. Sergiu Nicolaescu,Petr Falc,Vladimir Gaitan,Cristian Motiu are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Supravietuitorul (2008) is considered one of the best Crime movie in India and around the world.
After WWII "Comisarul Moldova" (Sergiu Nicolaescu / Petr Falc) spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central Eurpean town where Goldberg (Vladimir Gaitan / Cristian Motiu), an old acquaintance of his is organizing an "improved" version of the game where two opponents are shooting each other. Step by step Moldovan meets lots of familiar faces, both friends and enemies. It looks like the whole Bucharest's underworld from the 40's chose to meet here.
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Supravietuitorul (2008) Reviews
Pathetically ridiculous
Poor Sergiu created again a faulty toy, meant to be a sort of mechanic "action man", and turning out as a skinny teddy-bear that makes "meouw" instead of "grrr". :)) It's really sad to see this tired warming-up of the old "commissioner Moldovan" movies, which had been more or less acceptable ("Un comisar acuzä" - good enough; "Revansa" - mediocre: "Duelul" - acceptably bad). "Supravietuitorul" has an inept, illogical and nonsensical script, an extremely awkward and amateurish directing, and it's disastrously played - further, it insists to use some non-entities as Ileana Lazariuc (AND to show her shaved pubis, although in A.D. 1940 this fashion was still some distant dream of the future) and Loredana Groza (who uselessly makes oral noise to no end, in a so-called "musical scene"), only in an attempt to attract audiences - which it really does, unfortunately, since Romania still holds a sizable proportion of troglodyte spectators willing to throw their money out for such aberrations. Peter Falc, poor him, as the young commissioner, arrives only to make a fool of himself. He doesn't look alike with young Sergiu, but old Sergiu thinks he does, so he dubs him with his 78 years old voice, neglecting to synchronize his speech with the young Czech actor's lips movement - and the result is delirious. One should also add the intolerably messy way to shoot on location (the famous Majestic square in downtown Bucharest trying to pass for western place - get a life!), the hallucinant host of anachronisms, the unwilling funny effects of so many scenes purporting to be "dramatic"...! My favorite blunder was the episode when young Moldovan chases after a bad guy, DELIBERATELY SHOOTING ALL HIS BULLETS IN THE AIR, and in the end he points the gun to the bastard, hears the unavoidable "click!", and remarks: "You were lucky, this time!" (I mean, there is dumb and dumb, but this beats them all!)
WOW, the movie that makes old romanian jokes come true ...
There was an old joke about "Sergiu Nicolaescu movies" - "director Sergiu Nicolaescu, producer Sergiu Nicolaescu, lead actor Sergiu Nicolaescu, and with Colea Rautu playing Sergiu Nicolaescu" - it is now true!!! (Petr Falc instead of Colea Rautu but that does not really matter). The movie is so awful that it could compete for the title of the worst romanian movie of the last 10-20 years - and the 10-15 seconds of nudity with Ileana Lazariuc can not save it no matter how gorgeous she might be ... (and honestly speaking she is). The plot is non-existent, the story is totally stupid (basically in that foreign town you find like 80% of the population being of romanian origin, and almost all of them people that the hero knew from 30+ years ago - not to mention that the romanian gangsters kind of 'make the law' in that large luxury town). The movie is also a huge 'family mess' - the singer was pushed for her relations with the director and not to be outdone we find two Mihaita so it was probably a failure before even starting to film on it ...
Boring movie.
Definitely not one of the great movies from Nicolaescu. This movie is supposed to be about Comisarul. Instead all we get is a cheap film about Russian roulette. Better watch the Georgian movie 13 Tzameti for unbelievable tension related to Russian roulette.Great actors but bad script. Loved the performance of Jean Constantin. Even if the action seems to take place in a western Europe city almost everybody is Romanian:) and the director is making that very clear introducing English speaking for those who are not Romanian. This movie seems like a long advert for singer Loredana Groza aka Lorry. Everything in the movie is in slow motion and for almost 20 minutes Loredana is on a cabaret stage singing....so boring. Loredana is this movie producer's wife. Does it make sense to you now? Nicolaescu please stop doing movies. You are just ruining your career after those great movies in the 70s and 80s.
It turned out to be a great movie.
First of all, I'd like to say it's impossible to affirm this is an awful movie, but, as nothing is actually impossible in this world, the ones that know nothing about movies, Sergiu Nicolaescu's perspective and his movie-thinking, would say it. Indeed, the movie starts quite bad, but whoever doesn't get bored or nostalgic because of the connections between his old crime mob movies and this one, especially some psychological links between the movies and Nicolaescu (there are some symbols of all kind that repeat in both 1970 creations and this one, which clearly show they represent the famous director's pride and love), would eventually see the movie turns out to be quite great. Without any doubt, the most talented actors playing in this movie were Ion Ritiu, Sergiu Nicolaescu and Jean Constantin. Ritiu impressed me to the core, he's making this a 9/10 movie, from the initially 7 I was thinking of. The soft warm colors, the great 40's atmosphere and attention to detail are also great pieces of this movie. I didn't like the following (things that could have been done better, or way better): firstly, the 40's cocktail scene, where Petr Falc didn't give his best (he was quite terrible, actually); secondly, the Gold&Black Scene: the arrangements and details didn't fit the atmosphere; I certainly didn't like the *most* actors' English, it was awful, especially Goldberg's, and his general image which didn't fit the movie; the fonts used at the beginning of the movie (the credits) could have been different to inspire the modernism of now-a-days movies (maybe Trebuchet MS?). My favorite moment: Jean Constantin swearing in the cemetery, using an old saying, present in all Moldovan movies - it's truly moving for all Nicolaescu's fans. 9/10
Who let this script out? Who! Who! Who!
If it wasn't for Ileana Lazariuc, Romanian version of Angelina Jolie, I would give this movie one single shiny star. The movie tells the incredible story of an extreme life and death Russian roulette game in which 'The commissioner of police' can "dodge" bullets. Just let it sink for a minute: a guy who dodges bullets in a game of Russian roulette, and he's the best at it, for 30 years. This guy will simply won't die and Statistics don't stand a chance with him. I rest my case. For your sake, don't watch this movie.