
Original Title: Despre oameni si melci
Director:
Tudor Giurgiu,
France / Romania
Romanian, French, and Spanish with subtitles
93 min
World Cinema
Synopsis:
An absurdist drama tinged with dark humor, Of Snails and Men takes place in the small Romanian town of Muscel, where a French company plans to convert the town’s failed factory into a snail cannery. Knowing that thousands will be left unemployed, the union leader concocts an outlandish scheme to buy back the factory: the workers will, en masse, travel to Bucharest to earn money at a sperm bank.
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