Pioneers' Palace

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Overview: Set in Bucharest after the fall of Ceaușescu, Pioneers' Palace captures the chaotic essence of the time. Based on the director's own experience, the story follows a group of Romanian teenagers who, driven by the unprecedented freedoms of a free-market economy, open a disco in their high school. Surrounded by entrepreneurial opportunity and almost no limits, the teens visit Bucharest’s first-ever brothel and are exposed to the dark underbelly of an unregulated society when they are faced with potential exposure to AIDS.

Rating: 10 / 10

Cast

Alice Halpert

as Valeria Calugareanu

Raluca Eftimie

as Nicoleta

Stefan Bostina

as Ticket Clerk

Ioana Rucareanu

as Mariana Finti

Bianca Braicu

as Roxana Arvinte