Pioneers' Palace Directed by Bobby Păunescu
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.
Cast
Alice Halpert
Valeria Calugareanu
Raluca Eftimie
Nicoleta
Stefan Bostina
Ticket Clerk
Ioana Rucareanu
Mariana Finti
Bianca Braicu
Roxana Arvinte
Bobby Paunescu
Robert Marinescu
David Lipper
Kevin
Nicole Anghel
Olivia Marinescu