Romanian Director Rules Cannes Film Festival

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Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Sunday with "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a harrowing portrait of an illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania.

The low-budget, naturalistic film about a student who goes through horrors to ensure that her friend can have a secret abortion beat out 21 other movies in competition for the Riviera festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.

Earlier this weekend, anotherd Romanian director posthumously won a secondary Cannes competition called "Un Certain Regard."

Cristian Nemescu died in a car crash last year at age 27, leaving his "California Dreamin' " incomplete.

Jurors had initially decided not to judge the film, about American soldiers in a small Romanian village, but changed their minds when they saw it.

Mungiu And  Nemescu, Decorated By  President Traian  Basescu

Romanin President Traian Basescu decided yesterday to decorate Cristian Mungiu and  post-mortem, Cristian Nemescu, with the National Order  “Steaua Romaniei” with the rank of  Knight  for their contribution in “promoting Romanian cinematography worldwide  ”.

Nemescu  will also receive the  Nationa Order of Merit, post-mortem.

Ministry of Culture and Cults praised  Mungiu’s work .

 “The prize received by Cristian Mungiu (...) is the highest distinction ever granted to a Romanian film”, the minister said in a press release .