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With his nose pressed against the glass, four-year-old Ionel watches the kids playing ball in the street with great interest. His father, a schoolteacher, has lost his job. Now he goes to various institutions in vain, because in bourgeois Romania it is not easy to find a job. Ionel waits for his father every night and while waiting for him he dreams of getting a real yellow ball for his birthday. His father realizes that it is necessary to get the money and buy the ball. After all, the boy is crippled, and the ball is the only hope for him to get well...
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Cast
16 people
Lazăr Vrabie
Father
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Ion Bodeanu
Ionel
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Andrei Codarcea
Chirita
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Ion Ulmeni
High school principal
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Politalul
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Lucia Mara Dabija
Music teacher
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Antoaneta Gilmeanu
Chirita Misail
Consuela Rosu
Mircea Stroe
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Mircea Constantin-Govora
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Tatiana Stefanescu
Siniša Ivetić Director · Andrei Blaier Director Francisc Munteanu Writer
First release December 31, 1958 · Produced in Romania
Production
Studioul cinematografic „Bucureşti"
Production
Romania
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Languages
Original language
Romanian
Spoken on screen
Romanian
Release dates
Romania · December 31, 1958
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
February 22, 1960 · Theatrical
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