Thalassa, Thalassa - Rückkehr zum Meer (Thalassa, Thalassa! Return to the Sea)

This is an original variation on the indestructable genre of the road movie. It's a children's film for adults, made with a fine feeling for understatement and the absurd. In a bare and virtually empty Roumania, the schoolboy Fane finds in a barn one day a dream car: a white Jaguar dripping with (criminal dollars) and western luxury. With his friends, five boys and a girl, Fane makes a trip in the car. They're hooked. tHey want to go to the seaside. But then the journey through a Roumania forsaken by God and everyone else, gets increasingly dangerous. The reckless trip makes victims...