Păcală

Pacala is a hero out of Romanian folk tales. His name turns up in many stories and jokes. He likes to make fun of what is wrong in people. Stupidity, greed and vanity are his targets. What he does always touches the same sort. Mean and self-serving people come off badly. But the account is not made of jokes alone. Pacala has a stance of his own. He bows to nobody. His attachment to nature is part of that stance. The attitude becomes a way of looking at life. The film was shot in the Romanian countryside. Sebastian Papaiani and Mariella Petrescu take the leads in Geo Saizescu’s Romanian comedy of 1974.