Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
Crime 360
Nashville
FailArmy
Categories
Hit TV
Drama TV
Movies
True Crime
News
Sports
Reality
Classics
Sci-Fi & Action
Chills & Thrills
Comedy
Game Shows
Nature & Travel
History & Science
Food & Home
Lifestyle
Kids & Family
En Español
International
Anime+
Music
Sign In
Aferim!
Directed by
Radu Jude
Not Rated
2015
1h 48m
Adventure
,
Drama
,
and more
7.6
98%
76%
7.3
Add to Watchlist
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
More
Where to Watch Aferim!
OVID
Subscription
Apple TV
Buy $9.99
Fandango At Home
Buy $9.99
Cast of Aferim!
Teodor Corban
Costandin
Mihai Comanoiu
Ioniță
Toma Cuzin
Carfin Pandolean
Alexandru Dabija
Iordache
Luminița Gheorghiu
Craftsman's Wife
Victor Rebengiuc
Craftsman
Alexandru Bindea
Priest on the road
Mihaela Sîrbu
Sultana
Adina Cristescu
Zambila
Șerban Pavlu
Traveller
Gabriel Spahiu
Vasile
Alberto Dinache
Tintiric
Mihai Bica
Traveller
Daniel Butnariu
Traveller
Tibor Pálffy
Slugă
Gheorghe Frunză
Fisherman
Eduard Cîrlan
Monk
Paul Fister
Zapciu
John Ketchum
Foreign Traveller
Corneliu Jipa
Villager
Aferim! Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
The tone is Rabelaisian and earthily comic in the minimalist, picturesque squalor of the settings.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
With a title that translates roughly as Attaboy!, this engaging and percipient period comedy focuses on the enslavement of the Roma people in 19th-century Romania.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Somehow director Radu Jude's decision to film in black-and-white only heightens that sense of reality: It's as if the film is some ancient newsreel.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
Shot in stark black and white, the picture's sense of place and time is strong - pungently so.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It's a tough world out there, and Costandin has found a way to survive in it. It's not always pretty, but in "Aferim!" it's never less than interesting.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Shot in black and white with fade-out transitions, the movie harks back to classic westerns. But it's also distinctly modern.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Everybody in Aferim! seems to hate and demean everyone else. And yet, they all seem like parts of the same blend of cultures - not a melting pot, but sort of a stew - that reasserts itself throughout the film.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
Jude gets strong performances from his three leads and, with the help of cinematographer Marius Panduru, has created an uncommonly beautiful film ... that at times evokes the simple beauties of classic Westerns.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
In subject and style, it's a departure from [Jude's] contemporary satires, but the period story is evidence of the same keen eye for class hierarchy, codified cruelty and the limits of self-deception.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Like many films set in contemporary Bucharest, this is a story of self-styled potentates, small-time graft, and inevitable disappointment.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A funny and brutal costume drama with a potent contemporary kick.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Shot in widescreen black-and-white on 35mm, the film combines the structure of a classic Western with the look of Eastern European films from the 1960s, to reasonably absorbing effect.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The laughs come from our disorientation at witnessing a world that is insanely peculiar, so different from ours in its understanding of right and wrong that we sit in amazement.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Lyrical and nightmarish in turns, but in no way nostalgic, Jude's reconstruction of this world makes for one of the most striking films of the last year, and a flamboyant anomaly in today's often cautious world of European art cinema.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Aferim! plays like a sleight of hand, amusing us at a distance with vulgarisms and entrancing us with countryside while the bloody work of civilization grinds on out of the corner of our eye.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
"Aferim!" may be set in the 19th century, but this Romanian drama couldn't be more contemporary in its themes. Bigotry and fear grip the characters in ways that will be uncomfortably familiar to modern eyes.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The crisp black-and-white photography and brisk panning shots across alluring landscapes capture the cruelty of the times and the pitiless course of history with a bitter majesty.
Film Comment Magazine
Robert Horton
Despite subject matter that involves slavery, torture, and relentless bigotry, the film is wildly, bitterly funny.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Radu Jude's most accomplished and original feature yet.
Slant Magazine
Jesse Cataldo
The film's black humor is inextricably tied to serious questions about moral relativism and personal responsibility.
Watch Aferim! Videos
Aferim! (US)
Aferim! (US)
Trailer
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
