The Romanian Film Festival Seattle: Holy Week

Holy Week

Romania | 2024 | 133 min. | Andrei Cohn

November 2, 2024

Presented by American Romanian Cultural Society.

In this period drama, the tense relationship between Jewish innkeeper Leiba and his Romanian servant Gheorghe reaches a boiling point.

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Holy week is a loose adaptation of a Ion Luca Caragiale’s short story exploring the tense relationship between a Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee. When the innkeeper decides to fire him, Gheorghe becomes revengeful and issues a threat against Leiba who is doing his best to carry on in this anti-semitic environment.

  • Director: Andrei Cohn
  • Country: Romania
  • Year: 2024
  • Running Time: 133 min.
  • Language: Romanian
  • Has Subtitles: Yes