[REL] Thalassa, Thalassa (1994) [Romania]

[Rich]

Thalassa, Thalassa AKA Thalassa, Thalassa! Rückkehr zum Meer AKA Thalassa, Thalassa! Return to the Sea (1994)

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If anyone can find this for sale ANYWHERE I would be very impressed 8O

However it is sometimes shown on German TV, those in Germany would you please keep an eye out

Thanks, Rich

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111406/

[Rich]

Cool review here...

These kids aren't the typically cute ensemble we've seen in countless other films.
Thalassa, Thalassa! Return to the Sea (1994) 89m.

A children's film from Romania like no other – if it is a children's film. It's a little hard to tell, although I can imagine the concept of the story would be quite appealing to young viewers. Its simple plot depicts the journey of seven Romanian children from their arid village to the coast 40 kilometers away (I won't spoil things by saying how). As with all road movies, the journey is more significant than the destination – but it's light years away from anything Hollywood would come up with.

The portrayal of children in cinema has been a long-running bone of contention for me – they're always precocious, articulate, or cute. In short, they're always acting. And it's pretty hard for children to act like children when their lines are written by adults. THALASSA brings to the screen the most natural representation of children I can remember seeing – everything they say or do is so real it'll make you wonder if you were really like that at their age. You were. And their world of logic is so abstruse it ultimately pervades the structure of the story. It's almost as if writer-director Bogdan Dumitrescu has let his child actors choose the direction and events of his film – it certainly has an improvisational feel to it. But these kids aren't the typically cute ensemble we've seen in countless other films. Their natures are capricious and arbitrary. They switch allegiances to each other and think primarily of themselves, and they take absolutely nothing seriously . As the story progresses, THALASSA takes on surreal overtones – the landscape is blasted and desolate; the children dress in oversized clothes looted from a suitcase; and in separate instances, a couple of the characters simply drop out of the story – their disappearances are never explained, although we may be right to suspect violence.

It's worth bearing in mind that 100,000 orphans were still being relocated around Romania at the time this film was conceived – Dumitrescu may be taking a shot at the bureaucratic procrastination which left a few thousand children contracting the AIDS virus in substandard institutions. His cast is as carefree and scruffy as any group of street kids we would care to imagine. THALASSA doesn't really have any feel-good moments until the ambiguous ending, which makes us realize that no matter how much some children go through, the only thing they really live for is the moment. Does this trivialize the rest of the film? Who cares. By the time they're openly celebrating you'll be just as unconcerned about consequence as they are.

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Anyone know where to buy this?

[ghost]

Will be released on DVD in Germany this month!!

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[Rich]

Will be released on DVD in Germany this month!!

Love this movie, simply for the plot alone!! Kids getting drunk, driving a cool jag, smoking, playing with a gun, pissing, flirting with each other, and going skinny dipping at the end...

[ARTHORIUS]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[ghost]

Here we go:

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Notice: you can choose between the original romanian and the german audio.

[Rich]

THANKS ghost never thought i would see this release on emule

Excellent!

[mongodisco]

thanks for this one ghost.. ^^ hope to get it before i close down my computer saturday evening...

Is it any subs on this dvd?

[ghost]

Is it any subs on this dvd?

Sorry, only german subs on the DVD...

[fwtt]

Finally! Thanks, ghost