Moon Hotel Kabul

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Moon Hotel Kabul
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Anca Damian
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Anca Damian
  • Tom Dercourt
  • Sophie Erbs
  • Codin Maticiuc
  • Frantz Richard
Starring
CinematographyDominique Colin
Edited byBasile Belkhiri
Music byRomain Trouillet
Production
companies
  • Aparte Film
  • Cinéma Defacto
Release dates
  • 30 November 2018 (2018-11-30)(Romania)
Running time
100 minutes
LanguageRomanian
Budget €800,000 [1]
Box office $2,577 [2]

Moon Hotel Kabul is a 2018 Romanian-French drama film directed by Anca Damian and written by Damian and Lia Bugnar. It tells the story of Ivan (played by Florin Piersic Jr.), a charismatic but cynical journalist who starts to reconsider his life after Ioana (played by Ofelia Popii), a translator with whom he has had a one-night stand in a hotel in Kabul, commits suicide one day later. The film was shot in 2016, in Bucharest and Morocco, "as it was too risky to shoot in Kabul at that time". [1] [3]

The film premiered on October 18, 2018 at the Warsaw Film Festival where Damian received the Best Director award. [4] It was theatrically released in Romanian on November 30, 2018. [5] At the 2019 Gopo Awards, Alexandru Nagy was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Popii and Rodica Negrea were nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Anca Damian completes Moon Hotel Kabul". Cineuropa – the best of european cinema. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  2. ↑ "Moon Hotel Kabul". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  3. ↑ "Moon Hotel Kabul (Romania)". www.goldenglobes.com. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  4. ↑ "WARSZAWSKI FESTIWAL FILMOWY". www.wff.pl. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  5. ↑ "Premiera "Moon Hotel Kabul" în România". www.zilesinopti.ro. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  6. ↑ "Premiile Gopo 2019. Lista completă a câștigătorilor". www.digi24.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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