Aferim!

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Aferim!

2016

1h 45m

History

Drama

Western

Comedy

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After a slave escapes from his master's estate, a local policeman is hired to find him, resulting in a journey full of adventures.

Critics Consensus

Smart, visually arresting, and scathingly funny, Aferim! depicts a world that many American filmgoers have never seen -- but will still, in many respects, find utterly familiar.

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Peter Keough

Boston Globe

06/07/2016

3.5/4

The tone is Rabelaisian and earthily comic in the minimalist, picturesque squalor of the settings.

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Leah Pickett

Chicago Reader

05/26/2016

With a title that translates roughly as Attaboy!, this engaging and percipient period comedy focuses on the enslavement of the Roma people in 19th-century Romania.

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Tom Long

Detroit News

03/28/2016

B

Somehow director Radu Jude's decision to film in black-and-white only heightens that sense of reality: It's as if the film is some ancient newsreel.

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Scott Nye

Battleship Pretension

01/07/2021

As such, the title - at once jolly and sharply condemning - is a perfect reflection of the tone of the film, which uses its sharp wit and laughs like a knife.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

09/30/2020

4/5

Eccentric, absurd, and ultimately a brutal portrait of late-Feudal Europe, Aferim! is a deservingly lauded calling card for Radu Jude in his increasingly formidable filmography.

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Steve Erickson

Brooklyn Magazine

06/28/2016

Yet another film about how superior we are to those awful racists from the 19th-century.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 05/12/2025

LOL, 1.75 hours of humor, history, drama and action!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Alec B

@Alec97 02/21/2024

What the movie understands is that the past, no matter how unpleasant, must always be depicted honestly. Also, I like the focus here which is directed squarely on everyday people and their prejudices.

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04/04/2022

What the movie understands is that the past, no matter how unpleasant, must always be depicted honestly. Also, I like the focus here which is directed squarely on everyday people and their prejudices.

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nefasto r

@Nefasto 09/28/2018

"Aferim!" is an historical drama that deserve attention from the beginning to the end. It is a minimalist film, and because of that so many things pop up clearly: the poetic visuals, the bittersweet sadness, the long list of memorable quotes. A western with heart and soul.

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04/25/2016

Really long and boring

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04/24/2016

The odd pacing may put off some viewers but the pleasures are there if you look for them.

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Synopsis

After a slave escapes from his master's estate, a local policeman is hired to find him, resulting in a journey full of adventures.

Director: Radu Jude
Producer: Ada Solomon
Screenwriter: Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
Distributor: Big World Pictures
Genre: History, Drama, Western, Comedy
Original Language: Romanian
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 22, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 14, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $104.7K
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital