ABOUT AGER-FILM
Since 1991 Ager Film has been dubbing in Romanian language, short movies, over 50 TV series and over 130 features films.
Ager Film: Profile
Ager Film is a private film producing company with a large scale of activities : feature film production, documentary and advertising film production, audio post-processing and audio dubbing.
PRODUCTIONS
Artistic Feature Films:
- CURRENCY EXCHANGE, 90 min, feature film, 35 mm, Kodak color, 2008, Script Writer: Tudor Voican after an idea of Catalin Cocris, Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
- AMERICAN FIANCEES, 80 min, feature film, 35 mm, Kodak color, 2007, Script Writer: Eva Sarbu, Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
- WHAT A MERRY WORLD, artistic feature film, 90 minutes, Betacam SP, Director & script: Malvina Urisanu, 2003.
- BLESS YOU, PRISON, 87 minutes, 35 mm Kodak color, 2002, Director: Nicolae Margineanu, Script : Nicolae Margineanu, Catalin Cocris, Tudor Voican, based on the novel "Bless You Prison" by Nicole Valery Grossu,
- WAR IN THE KITCHEN, 90 minutes, 35 mm Kodak color, 2000, Script Writer: Rasvan Popescu, Director: Marius Barna
- THE FAMOUS PAPARAZZO, 85 min, feature film, 35 mm, Kodak color, 1999, Script Writer: Rasvan Popescu, Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
Short Films:
- TRIPTYCH, 35mm, black and white, 16 minutes, 2003, Director: Catalin Cocris.
- FLIGHT OVER A TURKEY’S NEST, 35mm Kodak color, 25 minutes, 2003, Director: Ovidiu Georgescu.
- HUMANITARIAN AID, 17 minutes, 35 mm Kodak color, 2002, Director: Hanno Hofer.
- ZAPPING, 15 min., 35 mm, Kodak color, 2000, Script Writer and Director: Cristian Mungiu.
- THE FIREMEN CHOIR, 30 min., 35 mm, Kodak color, 2000, Script Writer and Director: Cristian Mungiu.
- NO EVENT, 17 min., 35 mm. Kodak color, 2000, Script Writer and Director: Cristian Mungiu.
- PASS AWAY, 15 min, 35 mm, Kodak color, 1999, Director: Hanno Hofer.
Documentary films:
- UNIVERSITIES AND PRISONS, 50 min., 2010, Director: N. Margineanu.
- THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND EYES, 35mm, Kodak color, 27 minutes, 2002, Director: Alexandru Solomon.
- ROMANIA AND ITS TRADITIONAL MUSIC, Betacam SP, 95 minutes, 2002, Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
- BRAN CASTLE, 27 min, Betacam SP, 1995, Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
- ROYAL BRAN, 17 min. 2005, Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
- VLAD THE IMPALER VS. DRACULA, 14 min. 2005,
Director: Nicolae Margineanu.
- THE PEASANT CITADELL OF RASNOV, 12 min. 2005, Director: N.Margineanu.
- ARHITECTURE AND POWER, 52 min., Betacam SP, 1994, Director: N. Margineanu.
PRESS
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SOME INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS:
VARIETY
The International Entertainment Weekly 30 sept. 1991
ROMANIAN FEST UNDEVA IN EST (SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST) (ROMANIAN)
This well-scripted, handsome film is an eloquent and entertaining argument against communism that will be a big help in putting Romania on the film industry map. Fine acting and a wealth of richly developed minor characters and subplots give the pic strength. A strong plus is a coherent story-line that is straight-forward and accessible, rare among central European pics.
Rebecca Lieb
VARIETY
The International Entertainment Weekly 6 march 1994
A multifaceted loom at present- day Romania through a family progressively torn apart by social and economic tensions. "Look forward in Anger" is well worth a look by specialized webs. Strongly scripted, consistently interesting pic was warmly received at its screenings in the Berlin fest's Panorama section.
Derek Elley
WASTELAND
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER)
But what stay with you most are the images of life in this ravaged country: going outside to get water from a tap beside an overflowing skip: bread queues: wrecked boats abandoned on the river; and the waste - the human waste. The family breakdown borders on the melodramatic, but the magnitude of the pressures on the Romanian people is effectively conveyed. To see a country, so soon after a popular, heroic revolution, sliding towards, such an abyss can only leave you gutted.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications Limited
Garry Williams
WASTELAND
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER)
Margineanu's style is simple: long takes, a camera that only moves when the actors do, natural settings, natural light. But the simplicity conceals his art: by declining to pass judgment, he refuses to cheapen the events that he is filming, or suggest that they could have any simple resolution. The exposition, too, is masterly: Margineanu unobtrusively supplies information while drawing the audience inexorably in. He's also blessed with a miraculous cast, and has the sense to leave them alone when they can do the job better than he can.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications Limited
Daniel Denman
WASTELAND
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER)
If it was Nicolae Margineanu's intention in "Look Forward in Anger" to evoke the grim, fear-ridden urban Romania that is Ceausescu's legacy, then on a purely objective level he has succeeded.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications Limited
Roland Anderson
British Premiere Sunday, 17 July 1994
DOOM AND GLOOM
"Buy some flowers for those who died for us in the revolution", shouts one elderly street-trader. It is this attitude of despair and hopelessness which sums up Nicolae Margineanu's Look Forward in Anger. Although dark and depressing in mood, the film's realistic setting and thought-provoking social comment fully achieve the director's aim of depiche legacy of communism and the failure of democracy in contemporary Romania.
MK International Limited and MFS Communications Limited
Jaine Hilston
PRIVESTE INAINTE CU MINIE (LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER)
Romanian film production has slowed to a trickle since the fall of Ceausescu (five features in 1993), but extreme stringencies failed to prevent the triumphant appearance of one of the very best films at Berlin '94: an angry, fast-moving neo-realist expose of life in a devastated industrial town told with humor grit and poignant sense of waste.
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