An Unforgettable Summer

Kino International

Daughters of the Dust

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Daughters of the Dust." A film that portrays the unique culture of the Gullah people by focusing on the extended Peazant family as its members struggle with the decision to leave their island and move north. On the eve of their departure, memories of their Gullah history and its African roots come rising to the surface. Winner of Cinematography at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.

Running Time: 82 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Romanian, French and English

Country Of Origin: Romania

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont, Olga Tudorache, George Constantin, Ion Pavlescu, Marcel Iures, Razvan Vasilescu, Cornel Scripcaru, Tamara Cretulescu, Mihai Constantin

director: Lucian Pintilie

After a Romanian Captain's beautiful wife rejects the advances of her husband's commanding officer, he's promptly reassigned to a frontier post on the Danube. Later, when Romanian soldiers are ambushed and slaughtered by roving Macedonian bandits, her husband is ordered to retaliate by executing the harmless Bulgarian locals who tend his family's vegetable garden.

Lucian Pintilie

Director

Kristin Scott Thomas

Marie-Therese Von Debretsy

Claudiu Bleont

Captaine Petre Debretsy

Olga Tudorache

Madame Vorvoreanu

George Constantin

General Commandant Tchilibia

Ion Pavlescu

Serban Lascari--Madame Vorvoreanu's Brother