The Nervous System
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In order to make a living, old Nica turns her country house into an anemic, bankrupt "pension". Her only joys are her dog's chirping and the TV news program. Out of loneliness, she sometimes imagines herself the heroine of a soap opera: secretly, Nica is in love with the news anchor Paul. The old woman decides to take a trip to Bucharest, where her daughter, Tuta, a nurse, lives with her concubine, Jenel, and Marilena, her 15-year-old daughter. In the capital, her passion for Paul takes paroxysmal forms. Nica monopolizes the remote control to stay on the same TV channel for which Paul presents the news, which will attract the family's irony. She even goes so far as to look for her "beggar" at the TV station, writes to him, exposing herself to humiliation and mockery. But she resists until illness and shame bring her down. Everything culminates in the old woman's attempt to commit suicide...
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Cast
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Rodica Tapalagă
Madame Nica
Also in
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Between parallel mirrors
Cecilia Bârbora
Tuta
Also in
Fed Up
Too Late
Mircea Daneliuc
Also in
Microphone Test
The House Between the Fields
Mircea Radu
Paul
Rodica Tapalaga
Madame Nica
Mitică Popescu
Dr. Smântânica
Also in
The Moromete Family
Fox Hunting
Dorel Vișan
Ministrul orb
Known for
Shadows
The Oak
Bujor Macrin
Also in
Fed Up
The Eleventh Commandment
Valentin Teodosiu
Known for
Assassination Games
Silent Wedding
Beatrice Benezi
Mircea Daneliuc Director
Budget $300K · First release April 8, 2005 · Produced in Romania
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Budget
$300,000
Production
Glissando Film
Production
Romania
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Original title
Sistemul nervos
Original language
Romanian
Spoken on screen
Romanian
Release dates
Romania · April 8, 2005
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No release date listed for United States.
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