The Second Game

2014

97 min

5.6

Ends at

A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary, History

Director

Corneliu Porumboiu

Country

Romania

Cast & Crew

Adrian Porumboiu

Corneliu Porumboiu

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The Second Game

A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.

  • Adrian Porumboiu

  • Corneliu Porumboiu

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