The Snails' Senator (1995)
• June 2nd, 1995 • 1h 48min
Drama, Comedy
Overview
This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned topsy-turvy in their mad quest for the snails a prominent senator has requested for his dinner. The trouble begins when a rather imposing, pompous senator comes to visit a small rural Romanian town for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new hydro-electric dam. After he finishes his speech, the senator is accosted by a Swiss film crew eager to interview him. The senator is inordinately concerned with presenting a positive image of Romania to the world at large and so when he learns that he and the journalists are to stay at the same villa, does everything he came to make sure that they see nothing scandalous.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Wag the Dog
Released on: 1997-12-25
Comedy, Drama
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...
Army of Darkness
Released on: 1992-10-31
Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards int...
The Godfather Part II
Released on: 1974-12-20
Drama, Crime
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...
The Crazy Stranger
Released on: 1998-04-08
Drama, Music, Romance
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Rendition
Released on: 2007-09-07
Drama, Thriller
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his Americ...
Ioana
Released on: 2015-05-08
Drama
Young Romanian Adrian works as a hustler in Zurich's underground in order to get his sister Ioana ou...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Released on: 1939-10-19
Comedy, Drama
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
Youth Without Youth
Released on: 2007-10-26
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...
You Are So Beautiful
Released on: 2005-11-07
Comedy, Drama
Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desp...
Sanda
Released on: 1990-01-01
Drama, Romance, Family
Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering ...
Bobby
Released on: 2006-09-05
Drama
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others ...
Gaițele
Released on: 2005-07-11
Comedy
Provincial atmosphere. The conflicts, customs and morals of a family of merchants from Craiova unwit...
Meet Me in Holmsund
Released on: 2017-01-17
Drama
Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. El...
The Birdcage
Released on: 1996-03-08
Comedy
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that th...
Asphalt Tango
Released on: 1996-11-13
Comedy, Drama
A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
History of the Occult
Released on: 2023-08-17
Drama, Horror, Thriller
During the last broadcast of 60 Minutes Before Midnight, the most watched journalistic program on te...
John Loves Mary
Released on: 1949-02-04
Comedy
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence w...
Brute
Released on: 1997-11-07
Drama, Crime
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...
Giant
Released on: 1956-11-08
Drama, Western
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
Love Letters
Released on: 1999-05-12
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
An ambitious U.S. Senator reflects back on his life after the death of a woman whom he loved and kep...