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Codine (1963) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

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1963 · 98 mins · Romanian
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Directed by
Henri Colpi
Starring
Françoise Brion, Eugenia Bosânceanu, Alexandru Virgil Platon, Mihai Mereuţă, Nelly Borgeaud, Nicolae Budescu

After ten years in prison for killing a friend, Codine returns to his miserly mother in a Bucharest slum, surviving by brute force. A boy idolizes him, seeing the harsh economic and social injustices. When Codine murders a betrayer, his paranoid mother fearing loss of her cash plots to kill him, shocking the child with the cruelty of adult life.

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