Director Radu Jude received the Silver Bear for "Aferim!", at the Berlinale 2015 Film Festival, on Saturday evening, Agerpres reports.
The Romanian film director underlined that the prize for Best Director belongs to the entire team he has worked with in this project and that he wished the Romanian authorities supported more the Romanian quality film in the future.
Regarded as one of the amplest Romanian cinema projects in the past years, Aferim! directed by Radu Jude is a historical film whose action is placed in the dawn of 19th century's Wallachia. The main character, a state tax collector employee (zapciu), played by Teodor Corban, accompanied by his son (Mihai Comanoiu), is searching for a fugitive gypsy slave (Cuzin Toma).