Two Lottery Tickets

Two Lottery Tickets (1959)

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1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella “Două loturi” (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directing belongs to Aurel Miheleş and Gheorghe Naghi, at that time both recently graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. This is the second feature film in colour from Romania. Despite the great public success, the film was often criticized by reviewers, mostly for its unhandy directing from the two debutants. Miheleş and Naghi would however continue their collaboration and release another two Caragiale adaptations, of which “Telegrame” (Telegrams, 1959) was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 edition of the Cannes festival.

Directors: Aurel Miheleș, Gheorghe Naghi.

Casts

	Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic as Dr. Lefter Popescu
	Dorina Done as Madame Lefter Popescu
	Marcel Anghelescu as Captain Pandele
	Alexandru Giugaru as Comisar Turtureanu
	Ion Iancovescu as organ-grinder
	Remus Ionașcu as The Rabid
	Mircea Constantinescu as The Banker
	Margareta Pogonat as Tica
	Georges Gima as
	Carol Kron as Plasatorul
	Alexandru Lungu as
	Ion Porsilă as
	Gheorghe Soare as
	Radu Beligan as Narrator (voice)

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