by Nathan Southern
synopsis
Romanian director Cristian Nemescu's comedy California Dreamin' (aka Nesfarsit, 2007) unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, circa 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country -- without official documents, and equipped only with the verbal consent of the Romanian authorities. The transport thus grows intensely vulnerable to the locals -- particularly the corrupt head of the railway station, who moonlights as a mobster and promptly decides to interfere with the shipment.
characteristics
- Station
- Romania
- Train [locomotive]
- Village
- Weapons
- Rifle
- Nothing Goes Right
- Gun
- Bullet
- Mob-boss
- Munitions
- NATO
