5 Ergebnisse.

A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen. The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle in a small town where rumors of war are rumbling. But the film shoot is plagued by accidents. The actors and crew don't understand the script. They argue over its meaning and perhaps come to identify with its subject matter a little too closely. Soon enough reality, such as it is, begins to crumbl...

Marianne is an adulteress tortured by guilt and by the harassment of a legal investigation. In an effort to escape from the pressures and judgments of the world, she withdraws into the privacy of reading and the printed word, fashioning a strange hybrid of fiction and reality.

It begins in New York with a painting of God by Fra Angelico, which has been stolen from the Louvre by a crowd connected with the famous Romanian thief Gigi Kent. It continues in Paris, Vienna, and Budapest, before ending up in the Maramures, the Carpathian region that bleeds from Romania into Ukraine. But are the Maramures real? Are they a dream, or a nightmare, come to earth? In Maramures (2001), Tsepeneag gives life to a world of memorable ...

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe. The novel follows Ana as she seduces cafe owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different version of her life story. To some, she's a former nurse, to others, a former spy.

The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls "a building site beneath the open sky, " but he cannot persuade his more widely read wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel, that it is any good.