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Cristian Mungiu (Romanian: [kristiˈan munˈd͡ʒi.u]; born 27 April 1968; Iași) is a Romanian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. 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 and Best Director, at the 2012 and 2016 Cannes Film Festivals, for his films "Beyond the Hills" and "Graduation".
After studying English literature at the University of Iaşi, he worked for a few years as a teacher and as a journalist. After that, he enrolled at the University of Film in Bucharest to study film directing. After graduating in 1998, Mungiu made several short films. In 2002, he debuted with his first feature film, Occident. Occident enjoyed critical success, winning prizes in several film festivals and being featured in Director’s Fortnight at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2007 Mungiu wrote and directed his second feature, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The film was received enthusiastically, attracting critical praise and being selected in the official competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it eventually won the coveted Palme d'Or for feature film, marking the first time that prize was awarded to a Romanian filmmaker.
Mungiu has said that early Miloš Forman and Robert Altman are important filmmakers who influenced him. He also respects the realism of Bicycle Thieves, among other famous realistic films. Mungiu is the brother of political analyst Alina Mungiu-Pippidi.
Most Popular Cristian Mungiu Trailers
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31 July 2020
The hero of a terrible action film realizes he's fictional and tries to escape with the help of a mysterious filmmaker.
01 January 2011
One year in the life of Albin and his family of shepherds in the North of Transylvania, their day to day routines, and their attempts to adapt to a new world where traditions are gradually replaced by modern values.
01 January 2009
A documentary about the New Romanian Cinema. "Cinemaguerilla" brings together over 30 interviews with directors, producers, actors, film historians and critics about what unites and what separates the New Wave of Romanian films.
14 August 2010
Matilda takes a one-day release from jail to attend her mother’s funeral, with no intention of returning.
13 June 2026
After the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu leave everything behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth's family.
24 August 2007
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
19 September 2018
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
20 July 2006
The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
31 March 1999
Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost.
05 October 2023
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666.
15 August 2020
Film director, Andrei, and his girlfriend, Paula, face the news of becoming parents. While the future mother is struggling with no worthy role models, the soon-to-be father must reconcile with the figure of his own father, now a monk on Mount Athos.
08 July 2021
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
20 May 2016
After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
16 September 1998
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
04 May 2005
The young Romanian woman Ioana tries to find her missing friend Tomescu in Berlin.
25 October 2012
Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her.
03 June 2022
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village.
12 May 2010
Lost and found in between plane rides.
04 October 2020
Dorin, a young man from the country, agrees for money, to take an exam for a Bachelor's Degree on behalf of someone else.
07 August 2025
Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.
05 May 1996
Student film made by Cristian Mungiu.
31 December 2007
In 2007, Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" became the first Romanian film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
04 May 2016
Skugos is the perfect town where all is sunny and nobody laughs. Mr.Q discovers laughter and sets off to look for the place where people enjoy laughing.
04 May 1997
A family at odds with each other.
01 January 2012
How do we carry on living, afterwards. When we've grown up under a dictatorship, when we shaped our lives under a dictatorship.
24 June 2022
32 years after the fall of communism and one hundred years after the founding of the Romanian Communist Party, three young independent filmmakers set out to make their feature film debut with a film about an invisible enemy, the radioactive cloud since 1986.
04 October 2018
While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American.
23 July 2021
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him.
02 July 2026
A year in the life of a family in a typical backyard in the center of the Moldovan capital Chisinau in the 1990s: Zina lives here with her husband Victor and daughter Eva and, like the other inhabitants of the house, struggles for the family's financial survival.
23 May 2002
Three overlapping stories take place over the course of a week in Bucharest, with characters whose life paths intersect and overlap; often independently of their intentions to emmigrate from Romania, or to stay behind.
04 May 2012
Sunday afternoon. 42 Celsius degrees. Nothing to eat. No shops. A man in his 50s tries to survive.
12 May 2005
Two railroad men are living in a lineman's cabin. One night a stranger has an accident on the beach nearby that will change everything.
01 October 1998
A young teenager wins a contest for a "Medieval Adventure" from a soda company. The winners, plus a film crew from the soda company arrive at the castle for the adventure.
27 May 2016
A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
29 May 2009
Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people.
12 May 2000
In a shabby apartment somewhere in Romania, a man obsessively zap between his TV channels despite the wife's complaints and nagging.
23 May 2024
1963. The young nurse Anna begins working in the juvenile ward of a mental hospital. There she meets Lucia, a fifteen-year-old schizophrenic.
10 February 2005
Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of 'generation'.
30 November 1998
One night, two beggars watch a soap opera through the window of a store where a robbery is taking place.
20 September 2024
In a remote rural area, a mother tragically dies during childbirth, leaving behind a daughter who witnesses the event.
