''Occident'' is a

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

directed by

Cristian Mungiu Cristian Mungiu (; born 27 April 1968) is a Romanian filmmaker. He won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for his film ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'', which he wrote and directed. He has also won the awards for Best Screenplay an ...

. It stars

Alexandru Papadopol Alexandru Papadopol (; born 5 April 1975, in Râmnicu Vâlcea) is a Romanian actor. At the beginning of the year 2000 he appeared in the films ''Marfa şi banii'' (''Goods and Money'' or '' Stuff and Dough'') and ''Occident'', after which he app ...

as a 29-year-old man named Luci and

Anca Androne ANCA or Anca may refer to: * Anca (name), Romanian female first name * Áncá language * Ançã (Cantanhede), civil parish in Portugal * Ançã, town in Portugal Organization * Australian Nature Conservation Agency, now Environment Australia * Ant ...

as his wife Sorina. The film is a

tragicomedy Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragedy, tragic and comedy, comic forms. Most often seen in drama, dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the ov ...

about young people who move to the

West West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...

when they are not financially successful in Romania.

Cast

as Luci * Anca-Ioana Androne as Sorina * Samuel Tastet as Jérôme *

Tania Popa Tania Popa (born 19 January 1973) is a Romanian actress. = * Your Face Sounds Familiar (Season 8, 2015) * The national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 * The Farm (Season 3, 2018) Stage * God of Carnage ''God of Carnage'' ( ...

as Mihaela *

Coca Bloos Coca Bloos (born 1 October 1946) is a Romanian actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1988. Selected filmography References External links

* 1946 births Living people Romanian film actresses People from Piatra Neamț ...

as Mihaela's mother * Julieta Strîmbeanu as Granny * Eugenia Bosânceanu as Aunt Leana *

Ioan Gyuri Pascu Ioan Gyuri Pascu (; also credited as Ioan Ghiurico Pascu, Gyuri Pascu, and Ghyuri Pascu; August 31, 1961 – September 26, 2016) was a Romanian pop music singer, producer, actor, and comedian, also known for his participation in the comedy grou ...

as Gică * Valeriu Andriuţă as Nae * Nicolongo as Luigi *

Dorel Vișan Dorel Vișan (; born 25 June 1937) is a Romanian actor. He has appeared in 65 films since 1974. He was nominated for the award of Best Actor at the 1988 European Film Awards. He was born in Tăușeni, Cluj County. In 1965 he graduated from the ...

as The cop *

Gabriel Spahiu Gabriel Spahiu (; born 21 March 1968) is a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1998. Spahiu was also chosen by Sony Pictures Animation to dub Wayne in the animated movies ''Hotel Transylvania'', ''Hotel Transylvania 2 ...

as The mute Spaniard *Michael Beck as The Dutchman *

Jérôme Bounkazi Jerome (c.347–420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian from Dalmatia. Jerome may also refer to: People Given name * Jerome (given name), a masculine name of Greek origin, with a list of people so named * Saint Jerome (disambiguat ...

as The Italian *

Tora Vasilescu Tora Vasilescu (22 March 1951) is a Romanian actress. She was born in Tulcea and went to local School no. 5, and then went on to High School no. 2. She showed talent for acting since she was young and later studied at the Theater Institute in B ...

as The school-mistress

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