The Conjugal Bed

The film is set in Romania after Ceausescu. The oppression is over but the poverty is still there. Vasile runs a cinema that is all but empty. What he earns from it is not enough for anything. At home there is a wife he is fond of. There is also a mistress, and to her he is more attached. One day his wife tells him she is pregnant. Vasile tries to find money for an abortion. When he cannot, his panic grows. Then his mistress makes a decision of her own. Because the money is good, she decides to work as a prostitute. With the two pieces of news together the man breaks down. He is put into a psychiatric hospital. When he comes out he learns his wife has let the flat to pornographic filmmakers. The one appearing in the films is his wife. Gheorghe Dinică and Coca Bloos appear in the hundred and two minute film, a Romanian production Mircea Daneliuc finished in 1993.