Glissando 39 years old

In a devastating story rife with visual metaphors, Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc traces the slow mental disintegration of a confirmed gambler, using his disorder as an allusion to a greater national and social disorder. Set in the 1930s, the middle-class gambler meets an elderly man who seems to bring him good luck at the gaming tables. Rather than treasure his friendship and the good fortune it brings, the gambler takes advantage of his friend, and by his actions drives the man to suicide. Unable to reconcile his own mental demons, the gambler wanders through the house of his dead friend, and his experiences there only serve to unsettle his mind more and more and more. In the last reels of the film, the fantasies of the hero's deranged mind take over.

Credits

Mitică Popescu as

Ștefan Iordache as Ion Teodorescu

Camelia Zorlescu as

Constantin Drăgănescu as

Ioan Fiscuteanu as Alexandru Agiu

Glissando Cast

Name	Character
Mitică Popescu He was 48, now 87 years old
Ștefan Iordache He was 43, 67 years old when he died	as Ion Teodorescu
Camelia Zorlescu She was 46, now 86 years old
Constantin Drăgănescu He was 48, now 88 years old
Ioan Fiscuteanu He was 47, 70 years old when he died	as Alexandru Agiu

Glissando Crew

Name	Department
Mircea Daneliuc as Director. He was 41 (now 81) years old	Directing
Mircea Daneliuc as Writer. He was 41 (now 81) years old	Writing

Glissando (39 years)

Release day: Sunday, January 13, 1985
Runtime: 165 minutes