Questioning both the US’ ability to be the guardian of global democracy and the benefits of liberty in post-Ceausescu Romania, this bleak comedy was left unfinished at the car-crash death of 27 year-old feature debutant, Cristian Nemescu.
Yet this is still a perceptive insight into cultural discrepancy and political corruption, with Razvan Vasilescu impressive as the scheming stationmaster who detains a NATO train heading for Kosovo in 1999 in order to exploit the US Marines on board.
Moreover, there’s a deliciously dark inevitability about the way the riotous satire descends into tragedy.